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MIDDLESBROUGH V CARDIFF CITY
Championship
Tuesday 20th January, 17.45
Cardiff City Stadium



Cardiff City: Moore, Brayford, Connolly, Morrison, Turner (c), Whittingham, Gunnarsson, Adeyemi, Noone, Harris, Revell.

Subs: Wilson, Fabio, John, Ralls, Macheda, Jones, Le Fondre.

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Likely Line-ups
Middlesbrough (4-2-3-1): Konstantopoulos; Kalas, Ayala, Gibson, Friend; Clayton, Leadbitter; Adomah, Tomlin, Reach; Bamford.

Cardiff (4-4-2): Moore; Brayford, Connolly, Turner, John; Adeyemi, Gunnarsson, Whittingham, Noone; Harris, Jones.
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The good news for the Bluebirds is that top-scorer Kenwyne Jones has trained following his hip problem and will travel. The bad news is that full-back Scott Malone is rated doubtful with an ankle problem picked up at Norwich. Winger Anthony Pilkington will not be ready until at least next month with his hamstring injury.

' BORO '

Right-back Ryan Fredericks remains out with his thigh problem for a couple more weeks at least. Defender Damia Abella is a long way off with his cruciate while Rhys Williams will miss the rest of the season too with injury.

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City to play in Blue again

City will want to bounce back from their defeat against Norwich when they hit the road and face Middlesbrough on Tuesday night.

Middlesbrough extended their unbeaten home run to 10 games courtesy of a Lee Tomlin brace when they beat Huddersfield 2-0 on Saturday.

Possible Lineups

Cardiff City
33 Moore S
2 Brayford
36 Morrison
6 Turner B
4 Malone
18 Adeyemi
17 Gunnarsson
7 Whittingham
11 Noone
9 Jones
10 Le Fondre

Middlesbrough
13 Konstantopoulos
26 Kalas
6 Gibson
4 Ayala
3 Friend
27 Adomah
7 Leadbitter
18 Whitehead
20 Reach
21 Vossen
23 Bamford


Preview


Form - Last 5 Games

Cardiff

Cardiff City 2 - 4 Watford 28/12/2014
Charlton Athletic 1 - 1 Cardiff City 26/12/2014
Cardiff City 2 - 3 Brentford 20/12/2014
Bournemouth 5 - 3 Cardiff City 13/12/2014
Cardiff City 0 - 0 Rotherham United 06/12/2014

Middlesbrough

Sat 20/12/14 CHA Ipswich Town 2 - 0 Middlesbrough
Fri 26/12/14 CHA Middlesbrough 3 - 0 Nottingham Forestn
Sun 28/12/14 CHA Blackburn Rovers 0 - 0 Middlesbrough
Sat 03/01/15 FAC Barnsley 0 - 2 Middlesbrough
Sat 10/01/15 CHA Reading 0 - 0 Middlesbrough

The Stats


Cardiff


Middlesbrough



Last 5 meetings

17 Dec 2011 Cardiff City v Middlesbrough L 2-3 League Championship
07 Apr 2012 Middlesbrough v Cardiff City W 0-2 League Championship
17 Nov 2012 Cardiff City v Middlesbrough W 1-0 League Championship
02 Mar 2013 Middlesbrough v Cardiff City L 2-1 League Championship
16 Sep 2014 Cardiff City v Middlesbrough L 0-1 League Championship

Match Odds

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Cardiff 7/2
Draw 5/2
Middlesbrough 8/13


Riverside Stadium

Key facts

Club: Middlesbrough FC | Opening: 1995 | Capacity: 34,988 seats

History and description

The Riverside Stadium was the first modern English stadium to be constructed after the Taylor Report. It replaced the old Ayresome Park, which, being hemmed in by terraced housing, lacked the possibilities for expansion.

The Riverside Stadium officially opened on the 26th of August 1995 with a match between Middlesbrough and Chelsea (2-0).

In 1998, the stadium got expanded with an additional 5,000 seats. Middlesbrough already has planning permission for a further extension of 7,000 seats, but will wait until demand justifies such increase.

In 2005, the club erected the old Ayresome Park gates in front of the Riverside Stadium as a reference to the club’s past.

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1-2.

Boro 1 City 2 if we play for 90 minutes

'Borough 4 City 0

We cannot defend, 4 0 sorry

shit manager , shit team, 4-0, so sad, after going back to blue, nothing to celebrate

sorry annis
4-0
can not see us improveing under slade

Chief can I please point out that Middlesbrough don't play at the Cardiff City Stadium

I think people on here are a bit negative im going to say 3.0 to borough.

5-1 boro

SLADE OUT

Boro 3-1 Cardiff if we play 4-4-2 with Le Fondre.

If we play 4-5-1 with Harris just behind Revell - Boro 1-2 Cardiff

2-2

2_1 if we re lucky

3-1 Boro

We dont know how to hold the ball and give it away straight away so that will provide our opposition with at least 65% of the play, so I can see it being 4-0.

Slade and Young are not capable i'm afraid of possession football, with players wanting the ball in space, so it is a question of, and I have studied them on the training ground also, of "wanting" it to happen rather than "making" it happen.

The same thing happened yesterday, when we do get the ball, players are not creating space and looks like they dont want it, and hence play a long ball to the opposition.

3-1 sorry think boro will get promoted

3-1,too weak and never have the ball.

5-0 boro

4-2 Boro

Cardiff City squad is blessed with talent but Middlesbrough are the best team I've seen this season - Alex Revell

Sunday Jan 18, 2015

By Terry Phillips
Alex Revell has had a rollercoaster start to his Cardiff City career. He's enjoyed the return to blue, the win against Fulham and his full debut goal but was devastated by the Norwich defeat


Alex Revell opened his Cardiff City account in the defeat at NorwichAlex Revell says the Bluebirds have to look up the table rather than down it

Cardiff City new boy Alex Revell described the first-half defending at Norwich as ‘criminal’, but insists: “We’ll put it right at Middlesbrough.”

Man of the match Revell, who scored a goal and set up Cardiff’s second for Kadeem Harris, didn’t hold back after the match at Carrow Road.

“The way we started was criminal and we can’t be like that,” he said. “That first half is not to do with the gaffer (Russell Slade), it’s about people going out and doing their jobs properly. We all need to get better at that.

“Our second-half performance would have caused any team problems and we will take that feeling into our match at Middlesbrough.”

Revell has already played against City’s next opponents, Boro, when his former club Rotherham were beaten 3-0 at home two-and-a-half months ago.

“Boro are the best team I’ve seen this season, but if we play to the standards we reached in the second half at Norwich we will be a contest for anybody in the Championship,” said Revell. “We have to apply ourselves in the right manner.

“Our task is to push on and challenge for a top six finish. That means starting to pick up more points away and Middlesbrough would be a great place to start,

“We will watch the match videos from Norwich and learn from our mistakes.


“There is no doubt everybody in our group believes we will bounce back. This squad is full of talented players and we believe in each other.”

Revell, 31, was given the nod to start after Kenwyne Jones failed a fitness test on a hip injury.

Jones did not travel to Norwich, but he will be back in the squad at Middlesbrough and Slade confirmed he will be available to start.

Revell, though, has thrown down the gauntlet for Jones with a convincing and effective personal performance at Norwich.

“It was good to score, but the result is bitterly disappointing,” said Revell. “We worked hard all week after our win against Fulham and everybody wanted to back that up at Norwich and prove to people we can make the top six.

“We were unlucky not to get something when you reflect on how well we played in the second half, but at that stage there was nothing to lose.

“We gave it our all and should have done that from the first minute.

“Our squad is blessed with really talented players and it’s about putting it together with graft and team ethic.”

0-2 to the Blooobirds

A stroll in the park for Boro!

Boro 4-0

3-1 Boro. Slade needs to address midfield away, and play 4-5-1 to compete.

I can't see us going up and changing managers ONCE AGAIN will not help.

So losing isn't that big of a deal.

If one takes in the possession stats and I think city have only dominated in around 4 games all season, I'd say Boro will achieve 70% possession and will comfortably win 5-0

4-0 to the Boro if we can hold it together, otherwise a real hiding

Typically, I surprising result will come up around now. 0-1.

Cardiff City squad is blessed with talent but Middlesbrough are the best team I've seen this season - Alex Revell

Alex Revell has had a rollercoaster start to his Cardiff City career. He's enjoyed the return to blue, the win against Fulham and his full debut goal but was devastated by the Norwich defeat

Cardiff City new boy Alex Revell described the first-half defending at Norwich as ‘criminal’, but insists: “We’ll put it right at Middlesbrough.”

Man of the match Revell, who scored a goal and set up Cardiff’s second for Kadeem Harris, didn’t hold back after the match at Carrow Road.

“The way we started was criminal and we can’t be like that,” he said. “That first half is not to do with the gaffer (Russell Slade), it’s about people going out and doing their jobs properly. We all need to get better at that.

“Our second-half performance would have caused any team problems and we will take that feeling into our match at Middlesbrough.”
Revell has already played against City’s next opponents, Boro, when his former club Rotherham were beaten 3-0 at home two-and-a-half months ago.

“Boro are the best team I’ve seen this season, but if we play to the standards we reached in the second half at Norwich we will be a contest for anybody in the Championship,” said Revell. “We have to apply ourselves in the right manner.

“Our task is to push on and challenge for a top six finish. That means starting to pick up more points away and Middlesbrough would be a great place to start,

“We will watch the match videos from Norwich and learn from our mistakes.

City's players flew straight back from Norwich after the game and were home Saturday night with their families.
They now fly out tomorrow,Tuesday at 10am to Middlesborough and then straight back on the plane after the game, they have Wednesday off

We cannot defend and I can only see a defeat 6 0 final nail in RS coffin?????