MATCH THREAD ' CARDIFF CITY v WATFORD ' MATCH THREAD

CARDIFF CITY V WATFORD
Saturday 28th December
Cardiff City Stadium
3.00pm



Updated Daily ' CARDIFF CITY '

Sunday 28th Dec 2014

TEAM NEWS

CardiffCity: Marshall, Brayford, John, Ecuele Manga, Morrison, Adeyemi, Gunnarsson, Whittingham, Noone, Le Fondre, Jones.

CardiffCity subs: Moore, Fabio, Connolly, Turner, Macheda, Ralls, Harris.

Russell Slade will look to rotate as Bluebirds prepare for a second match in three days. Bruno Manga and Kadeem Harris will be looking for a starting place, while Anthony Pilkington is almost fit again.

He may, though, have to be patient and the best he can hope for is a place among the substitutes. Fabio is keen to return, but Declan John played well enough at Charlton to be given another chance.

Craig Noone took a whack to his ankle and will be assessed on Sunday morning. Watford, too, are likely to make changes with Gabriele Angella due back after suspension. He is likely to be in the back four having served a one match ban after being sent off at Reading.

TEAM NEWS

Cardiff manager Russell Slade could make changes to his starting line-up after the Boxing Day draw at Cardiff.

Federico Macheda, Fabio and Kadeem Harris will be pushing for a start after dropping to the bench on Friday.

Slade has virtually a full strength squad to pick from

We are 6/4 favourites with Watford at 2/1.

Once again Russell Slade is expected to change the starting line up.

Cardiff City have not won for 4 games,getting 2pts from their last 12pts.

Russell Slade's Cardiff City have not won in the league since 29 November 2014.

Watford lost at home to Wolves on Boxing day.

Possible Lineups

Cardiff City
01 Marshall
02 Brayford
36 Morrison
06 Turner
12 John
17 Gunnarsson
18 Adeyemi
07 Whittingham
11 Noone
10 Le Fondre
09 Jones

Watford
1 Gomes
4 Angella
15 Cathcart
39 Bassong
21 Anya
7 Guedioura
8 Tozser
22 Abdi
18 Pudil
9 Deeney
20 Vydra

Cardiff City

• Cardiff have not won any of their last four games, losing two of those. Their last win was 1-0 at Watford on 29 November.
• That win at Watford is Cardiff's only win in their 11 away games in the Championship this season.

The Opposition

Watford lost at home to Wolves on Boxing Day.
• Watford have won their last three games, after losing all of their previous four games.
• Watford won their last home game 2-1 against Wigan on 13 December - their first win in three games at Vicarage Road.

Form - Last 6 Games

Cardiff

Charlton 1 - 1 Cardiff
Cardiff 2 - 3 Brentford
Bournemouth 5 - 3 Cardiff
Cardiff 0 - 0 Rotherham
Watford 0 - 1 Cardiff
Cardiff 2 - 1 Reading

Watford

Watford 0 - 1 Wolves
Reading 0 - 1 Watford
Watford 2 - 1 Wigan
Fulham 0 - 5 Watford
Watford 0 - 1 Cardiff
Watford 1 - 2 Derby

The Stats

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Cardiff
Cardiff have won 45%, drawn 15% and lost 40% of their last 20 home games.

In their last 20 home games against teams positioned in the top half of the table, Cardiff have won 5, drawn 6 and lost 9 of these matches.

In their last 20 home games against teams positioned above them in the table, Cardiff have won 5, drawn 3 and lost 12 of these matches.

Watford
Watford have won 30%, drawn 20% and lost 50% of their last 20 away games.

In their last 20 away games against teams positioned in the top half of the table, Watford have won 3, drawn 7 and lost 10 of these matches.

In their last 20 away games against teams positioned below them in the table, Watford have won 7, drawn 7 and lost 6 of these matches.

Last 5 meetings

2014/2015 Sat 29 Nov Watford 0 - 1 Cardiff City Championship
2012/2013 Sat 06 Apr Watford 0 - 0 Cardiff City Championship
2012/2013 Tue 23 Oct Cardiff City 2 - 1 Watford Championship
2011/2012 Mon 09 Apr Cardiff City 1 - 1 Watford Championship
2011/2012 Mon 26 Dec Watford 1 - 1 Cardiff City Championship

Highlights

Highlights from City's last meeting with Watford:



Match Odds

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Cardiff 7/5
Draw 12/5
Watford 17/10

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Watford are no mugs...

City 0 Watford 3 35 minutes

First time for me but we will leave

City 1 Watford 1

Cardiff 1 Watford 3

Cardiff City 2 Watford 2

First Half.....

Cardiff City 1 - 1 Watford

Second Half...... City get a player sent off in the 46th minute and Watford show how to play against 10 men.

Final Score.......

Cardiff City 1 - 6 Watford

At the end of the game, Russell Salad informs the press he's off to manage Real Madrid.

City 0 - Watford 4

City 1 Watford 4

Slade out/Tan out

city 3-1 Watford.

On current form/performances, unfortunately 1-3 or 1-4 to Watford.

Just cant give a fuk anymore.

0-0 another bore draw.

A clear 2 goal win for Watford.

On current form/performances, unfortunately 1-3 1-4 to Watford.

On form when city played them they had won previous 5 games at home I believe? who won game? Form doesn't mean a lot in champ

Watford lost at home to Wolves yesterday 1 nil.

0:4

First Half.....

Cardiff City 1 - 1 Watford

Second Half...... City get a player sent off in the 46th minute and Watford show how to play against 10 men.

Final Score.......

Cardiff City 1 - 6 Watford

At the end of the game, Russell Salad informs the press he's off to manage Real Madrid.

City 0-4 Watford

On current form/performances, unfortunately 1-3 1-4 to Watford.

On form when city played them they had won previous 5 games at home I believe? who won game? Form doesn't mean a lot in champ

I based my score on our current performances. lets be fair, in the past 3/4 games at least our performances have been abysmal so it does not give me great confidence going into this game against a team that can score goals for fun. We might nick a goal and then we sit back and invite teams onto us even if they are down to 10 players. We don't seem to have the habit of killing teams off when they are down.

watford to give us a f*cking tuning.

We are 6/4 favourites with Watford at 2/1. That's big odds for Watford

3-0, think Watford are a poor team and we should be beating them at home

3-0, think Watford are a poor team and we should be beating them at home

Don't think they are anywhere near as poor team as we are, I'm afraid they will take us to the cleaners

I'm afraid I think we will get beat 0-1 I hope I'm wrong but having saying that, these days a defeat doesn't make me feel annoyed for long. I will still support the players on the pitch and the manager but my patience is running very thin each and every game that passes.
We must make ourselves be heard when chanting we will always be BLUE

1-6 le fondre will finally score

Result flattered us at their place...


1-3 Watford...

TEAM NEWS

Cardiff manager Russell Slade could make changes to his starting line-up after the Boxing Day draw at Cardiff.
Federico Macheda, Fabio and Kadeem Harris will be pushing for a start after dropping to the bench on Friday.


Watford will have Gabriele Angella available after the defender missed the Boxing Day home loss to Wolves through suspension.
Gianni Munari (hamstring) and Troy Deeney (dead leg) are both fit and available for selection.

Come on you Mighty Bluebirds

CARDIFF CITY v WATFORD, Sunday December 28, 3pm
Cardiff City 4-4-2: D Marshall; J Brayford, B Turner, B Manga, D John; K Harris, T Adeyemi, P Whittingham, C Noone; A Le Fondre, K Jones.

Watford 4-2-3-1: H Gomes, C Cathcart, G Angella, S Bassong, G Munari, D Tozser, A Guedioura, A Abdi, I Anya, T Deeney, M Vydra.

TEAM NEWS
Russell Slade will look to rotate as Bluebirds prepare for a second match in three days. Bruno Manga and Kadeem Harris will be looking for a starting place, while Anthony Pilkington is almost fit again.

He may, though, have to be patient and the best he can hope for is a place among the substitutes. Fabio is keen to return, but Declan John played well enough at Charlton to be given another chance.

Craig Noone took a whack to his ankle and will be assessed on Sunday morning. Watford, too, are likely to make changes with Gabriele Angella due back after suspension. He is likely to be in the back four having served a one match ban after being sent off at Reading.