MATCH THREAD" NORTHAMPTON TOWN v CARDIFF CITY " MATCH THREAD

NORTHAMPTON TOWN v CARDIFF CITY
Saturday 22th November, 3pm
Sky Bet League One - Match 15
Sixfields 



SOLD OUT 1,520 Cardiff City Fans





CCFC TEAM NAMED:


Cardiff City: Trott, Kpakio, Fish, Chambers, Bagan, Wintle, J. Colwill, R. Colwill, Kellyman, Davies, Salech.

Substitutes: Turner, Osho, Turnbull, Willock, Robertson, Ng, Robinson.








INJURY UPDATE:

BBM:

“ TANNER IS BACK ON GRASS TRAING / BUT NO DATE YET”

Chris Willock and Perry Ng, meanwhile, could well be in contention.

"Chris and Perry joined us on Monday so I guess there are some questions on how ready those guys are for a Saturday based on what they've been through, but we're still trying to give them every chance to be competing for a place in our squad."







BBM:

“Will Fish has been training”

“Since the game against Newport County, Will has had a knee problem and we’ve been monitoring him since then.”

"Due to the nature of Dylan Lawlor’s issues, we’ve been quite stretched so Will has been the one who has played all the games, whereas we have rotated the other position at centre-back.”

“The international fixtures came at a good time for us to try and get everyone fit.”

“Will joins Perry Ng, who we’ll look to have back after the international fixtures and Chris Willock is in an identical timeline to Perry.”

“Ollie Tanner is making good progress and Eli King is longer term.”

“Eli King is out for the season.”

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About Northampton Town

Northampton are in their third successive season in League One, having been promoted from League Two in 2023.

They finished 19th last season.

So far this season, they are 15th with 20 points from their 15 games.

Club Connections

Gabor Gyepes is one player who played for both teams.

He made 15 appearances for Northampton before going on to play 64 league games for us.

The Opposition's Manager

Kevin Nolan has been Northampton manager since December last year.

He previously managed Leyton Orient and Notts County.

As a player, he made over 500 league appearances for clubs such as Bolton and West Ham.

Opposition Dangerous Players

Highly rated young striker Ethan Wheatley is on loan from Man Utd , but only has one league goals so far this season.

Another striker they have is experienced EFL player Tom Eaves. He scored the winner from the penalty spot in their last game.

Referee

TBC.

Head To Head - last five meetings 

We have lost three of our last five against Northampton, winning two of those.

The last meeting was in the Carabao Cup in 2020, when Northampton won 3-0 at Sixfields.

Team News - Predicted Line-Ups

Northampton Town: Fitzsimons, McCarthy, Burroughs, Thorniley, Willis, Perkins, Taylor, McGeehan, Edwards, Fornah, Wheatley

Cardiff City: Trott, Kpakio, Lawlor, Chambers, Bagan, Robertson, J Colwill, R Colwill, Kellyman, Ashford, Salech

Last Game

We both had our game postponed at the weekend.

In our last league game, we lost 3-1 at Blackpool. Since then, we beat Arsenal U21s 3-1 in the Vertu Trophy.

Northampton won their last league game, 2-1 at home to Mansfield. They also won in the Vertu Trophy, 2-1 at home to Shrewsbury.

Match Odds

Northampton Town - 12/5
Cardiff City - Evens
Draw - 11/5

Predictions

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Time to roll our sleeves up and put on a performance 0-2 to the BLUBIRDS COME ON CITY. !!!

I'll miss this game completely because it's my birthday on the Sunday so seeing friends and family all weekend.

But it's a game we really need to win.

Hopefully we do.

Latest Table :

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I'll miss this game completely because it's my birthday on the Sunday so seeing friends and family all weekend.

But it's a game we really need to win.

Hopefully we do.

Happy Birthday Ned,

Same here

In the league Northampton’s last 6 matches

Won 2 Drawn 0 Lost 4

INJURY UPDATE:

BBM:

“Will Fish has been training”

“Since the game against Newport County, Will has had a knee problem and we’ve been monitoring him since then.”

"Due to the nature of Dylan Lawlor’s issues, we’ve been quite stretched so Will has been the one who has played all the games, whereas we have rotated the other position at centre-back.”

“The international fixtures came at a good time for us to try and get everyone fit.”

“Will joins Perry Ng, who we’ll look to have back after the international fixtures and Chris Willock is in an identical timeline to Perry.”

“Ollie Tanner is making good progress and Eli King is longer term.”

“Eli King is out for the season.”

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It's difficult to predict any game for cardiff as we are all over the place, we have struggled against the top teams but also teams at the bottom .
Who would have thought up the result at Blackpool all we can do is hope we win which does not fill anyone with confidence, Northampton are mid table ,we could have a great day and thrash them, or again we could be thrashed.

It's difficult to predict any game for cardiff as we are all over the place, we have struggled against the top teams but also teams at the bottom .
Who would have thought up the result at Blackpool all we can do is hope we win which does not fill anyone with confidence, Northampton are mid table ,we could have a great day and thrash them, or again we could be thrashed.

Monty,

As soon as we start playing good and Winning again, I just want to see a settled winning side, NO More Tinkering.

Need to be looking at a win, nothing less

I'll miss this game completely because it's my birthday on the Sunday so seeing friends and family all weekend.

But it's a game we really need to win.

Hopefully we do.

Happy Birthday Ned,

Same here

Thank you Annis, hopefully get the win th day before

Hopefully see you at the Mansfield game in two weeks

Northampton v Cardiff - Both clubs have let in just 14 league goals this season - both joint 2nd best in this league .

Cardiff not only will be looking defeat Northampton but they have to in my view to get their season back under way

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FIXTURES:





Sat Nov 22 Northampton Town v Cardiff City Crowd Away Support



Sat Nov 29 Cardiff City v Mansfield Town Crowd Away Support








Tues/Wed 2/3 December Vertu Trophy Rd 32 Cardiff City v AFC Wimbledon

Sat Dec 6 12:30pm Cardiff City v Huddersfield Town Crowd Away Support

Tue Dec 9 Stevenage v Cardiff City Crowd Away Support

Sat Dec 13 Cardiff City v Doncaster Rovers Crowd Away Support


Tuesday Dec 16 Live ITV 8pm League Cup 5th Rd Cardiff City v Chelsea Crowd Away Support 3,000


Sat Dec 20 Lincoln City v Cardiff City

Fri Dec 26 Cardiff City v Exeter City

Mon Dec 29 Cardiff City v Stevenage







Thur Jan 1 Wycombe Wanderers (A) - 3pm, live on Sky Sports

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Dean Campbell, Max Dyche and Michael Forbes are all back in training this week and should be available for Saturday’s visit of Cardiff City.
The trio have been on the sidelines with various injuries in recent weeks but all three are on the comeback trail. Nesta Guinness-Walker, currently out due to a shoulder strain, is scheduled to train later in the week and could also be in contention for Saturday, while Liam Shaw continues to work his way back from a long-term ACL injury.

In less good news, however, Sam Hoskins, Jack Vale and Joe Wormleighton are not particularly close to returning.
"Most of the squad are now back in full training and will be available for the weekend providing they get through the next few days,” confirmed Kevin Nolan on Tuesday. “I’ll have a bit of a selection headache, not only for the starting line-up but also for the bench.
"Hosk, Valey and Worms will be a bit longer. They need a bit of time and we’ll give them that time because we don’t want to rush them back, especially with where everybody else is at.
"Dean and Dychey have trained this week but Nesta will be another few days and we’ll give him a bit of time. He could make the weekend but we won’t rush him because Perks (Jack Perkins) has been doing brilliantly and Forbes is also back in now so we have plenty of options.

“We’re in a good place and we’ve built a squad that can cope with any setbacks so we won’t hide behind injuries.”

Checked with Northampton FC ‘Away days’ site re good pubs - Very helpful lady advised Melbourne Arms [NN5 6HS] is good and welcoming pub. She also recommended Thomas a Becket pub - On way from station to ground.

Cobblers midfielder Liam Shaw is expected to make his return from an ACL injury in the next three to four weeks.
The 24-year-old impressed in his early weeks as a Northampton player after joining from Fleetwood at the start of the January transfer window but suffered a serious knee injury against Barnsley on February 25th.

Jon Guthrie sustained a similar injury the previous month and he made his return to action last week, coming on as a late substitute in the EFL Trophy against Shrewsbury, and Shaw is not far behind him."Liam’s back training now but obviously we will take our time with him as we did with Jon,” confirmed Kevin Nolan. “We haven’t earmarked a game at the moment because we need to take it day by day and do the same thing as what we did with Jon.

Looks like the referee is Neil Head, his record this season is 13 matches, 42 yellow and one red card.
Last season, he refereed 15 games, gave out 66 yellow and 7 red cards

BBM:

“ TANNER IS BACK ON GRASS TRAING / BUT NO DATE YET”

Chris Willock and Perry Ng, meanwhile, could well be in contention.

"Chris and Perry joined us on Monday so I guess there are some questions on how ready those guys are for a Saturday based on what they've been through, but we're still trying to give them every chance to be competing for a place in our squad."

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Hopefully the boys who were with the Welsh squad have learned how to press and score goals.

Cardiff City boss Brian Barry-Murphy has given an injury update ahead of this weekend’s game against Northampton.
The Bluebirds won five of their first six league games this season but go into Saturday’s trip to Sixfields on the back of successive away defeats, beaten by Bolton and then Blackpool

“Ollie Tanner is back on the pitch now, he’s running,” said Barry-Murphy. “He’s had ankle surgery so it gives us a big boost to see him on the pitch. I still wouldn’t put a timescale on when he’s likely to return.

“Chris Willock and Perry Ng joined us in training on Monday and I guess there’s a question mark over how ready they are for Saturday based on what they’ve been through. We’re still trying to give them every chance to be competing for a place in the squad.

“We trained pretty intensely last week because so many of our academy players featured in the game against Arsenal. The players who didn’t play in that game trained for the rest of the week and that has put us in a good position. Fingers crossed that when we train this afternoon (Thursday), we’ll have a clean bill of health.”
Despite their recent stutter, Cardiff could still go top of League One with victory at Sixfields.

Barry-Murphy added: “Always, you’re looking to establish momentum and get a rhythm in the players where they feel as if it’s not stop-start but the nature of the season is there have been international breaks, which have been beneficial for different reasons.
“This next stage of the season is one where it’s quite beneficial for us to have all the players fit and available as of now because there are so many different games. As long as we perform to the level that we can, they’ll all be needed.”

SOLD OUT 1,520 Cardiff City Fans

Once again great support.

Northampton are Selling tickets on the day for their home fans as they can’t sell out.

They only hold 8,203 Fans

That’s how small the clubs we are playing this season

Once again great support.

Yes 1,500 plus

Three changes for City and a welcome return for Chris Willock on the bench.

Fish in for Lawlor, Wintle in for Robertson and Davies in for Ashford.

Both Colwills start, Salech leads the line.

Cardiff City: Trott, Kpakio, Fish, Chambers, Bagan, Wintle, J. Colwill, R. Colwill, Kellyman, Davies, Salech.

Substitutes: Turner, Osho, Turnbull, Willock, Robertson, Ng, Robinson.

Just arrived at the ground seems more cardiff fans here than home fans, badly need 3 points today

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Just arrived at the ground seems more cardiff fans here than home fans, badly need 3 points today

Yes very badly supported Northampton, been there 4 times with City


Nothing less than a Win / Bluebirds

Bluebirds