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Wigan v CARDIFF CITY
Championship
Tuesday 24th February, 7.45pm.
DW Stadium

Pay on the Night


Cardiff City Team : Marshall, Ralls, Morrison, Manga, Connolly, Noone, Whittingham, Gunnarsson, Kennedy, Jones, Doyle

Subs : Moore, John, O'Keefe, Adeyemi, Harris, McAleny, Revell

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' CARDIFF CITY '

Cardiff's Matt Connolly is set to be joined at the back by Lee Peltier, who replaces the injured Scott Malone.

Winger Anthony Pilkington is out, but Russell Slade has Eoin Doyle and Kenwyne Jones available up front.


Slade has virtually a full squad to pick from other than Scott Malone and Anthony Pilkinghton who is back in training.

Cardiff will be looking for their first win in 8 games after four losses, and four draws in a row.
City's last win was back in January when they won at home to fellow struggling Fulham.
City have now won only 1 game from their last 13 League games


' WIGAN '

TEAM NEWS


Jermaine Pennant is fit to make his Wigan debut but loan striker Leon Clarke's Latics future rests on the severity of his shoulder injury.
He joins William Kvist (hamstring), Grant Holt (knee) and Emyr Huws (ankle) on Malky Mackay's non-starter list.



Wigan have not won at home since August with their last 13 home results seeing 6 draws and 7 losses. They have lost 6 out of their last 7 at the DW Stadium. In the 13 games they have scored 8 & conceded 18.

Leon Clarke and William Kvist will have to sit out Cardiff's visit with injury.

Wigan have signed midfielder Jermaine Pennant on a deal until the end of the season

Possible Lineups

Cardiff City

1 Marshall
2 Peltier
5 Manga
36 Morrison
4 Malone
30 Kennedy
17 Gunnarsson
7 Whittingham
11 Noone
13 Doyle
9 Jones

Wigan

26 Al Habsi
24 Perch
4 Maguire
28 Pearce
3 Taylor
18 Oluwaseyi Ojo
16 Kim BK
36 Kvist
11 McClean
21 Clarke L
32 Fortune


Preview

Wigan Athletic Football Club is an English professional football club based in Wigan, Greater Manchester, who compete in the Football League Championship, the second tier of English football. Founded in 1932, the club is the most recently formed club in the division.

They have played at the DW Stadium since 1999, sharing the stadium with rugby league club Wigan Warriors.They previously played at Springfield Park for 67 years. The club's nickname is Latics. They are the penultimate holders of the FA Cup and were almost awarded the opportunity to defend the title the following season, only missing out in the semi-final match on a penalty shootout. They have also won the Second Division, Third Division and are two-times winners of the Football League Trophy, along with numerous regional football competitions from their time as a non-league club. The club embarked on its first European campaign during the 2013–14 season in the UEFA Europa League group stages where the DW Stadium was temporarily known as The Wigan Athletic Stadium in accordance with competition rules.

Form - Last 5 Games

Cardiff

Sat 31/01/15 CHA Cardiff City 0 - 2 Derby County
Sat 07/02/15 CHA Sheff Wed 1 - 1 Cardiff City
Tue 10/02/15 CHA Cardiff City 0 - 0 Brighton
Tue 17/02/15 CHA Cardiff City 1 - 1 Blackburn
Sat 21/02/15 CHA Huddersfield 0 - 0 Cardiff City

Wigan


Sat 31/01/15 CHA Ipswich Town 0 - 0 Wigan Athletic
Sat 07/02/15 CHA Wigan Athletic 1 - 3 AFC Bournemouth
Wed 11/02/15 CHA Nottingham Forest 3 - 0 Wigan Athletic
Tue 17/02/15 CHA Reading 0 - 1 Wigan Athletic
Fri 20/02/15 CHA Wigan Athletic 0 - 3 Charlton Athletic


The Stats


Last 5 meetings

13 Apr 2004 Wigan Athletic v Cardiff City W 3-0 League Division 1
30 Aug 2004 Wigan Athletic v Cardiff City W 2-1 League Championship
09 Apr 2005 Cardiff City v Wigan Athletic W 0-2 League Championship
15 Feb 2014 Cardiff City v Wigan Athletic W 1-2 FA Cup
19 Aug 2014 Cardiff City v Wigan Athletic L 1-0 League Championship

Previous Highlights



Match Odds

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Wigan
Draw
Cardiff

Tickets

Tues. 24th February 2015. KO. 7:45pm
Tickets available to current Season Ticket Holders and Gold Members

General Ticket Prices:
Adults @ £20.00
Seniors Over 65 @ £15.00
Under 16 @ £5.00

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Under 16 @ £5.00
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DW Stadium

Key facts

Club: Wigan Athletic FC
Opening: 1999
Capacity: 25,133 seats

History and description

The DW Stadium, until 2009 called JJB Stadium, replaced Wigan’s previous home Springfield Park, where Wigan had been playing their home matches for almost 70 years.

The DW Stadium officially opened on the 4th of August 1999 with a friendly between Wigan and Manchester United. A few days earlier, Wigan had already played another friendly at the stadium against Morecambe.

The stadium got renamed in 2009 after chairman David Whelan’s DW Sports business.

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Wigan 1 City 1

3-0 city.

0-0

0-2 city

2-2

I will be there to see us win 2 nil
Jones and Doyle to score

I will be there to see us win 2 nil
Jones and Doyle to score

6-0 to us

Pies 1 Bluebirds 1

Cardiff City boss Russell Slade says if the Bluebirds 'win one more will follow'

Sunday 22nd 2015

By Terry Phillips

Slade's men haven't won a game since January 10, which is their only win in their last 13 League games,but the manager believes that when they crack it the floodgates will open


Russell Slade is adamant his Cardiff City team are on the rise, saying: "If we earn one win more will follow."

The Bluebirds are unbeaten in four Championship matches, but all have ended in draws and Slade's men are desperate for a win to lift them up the table.

They are without a win for seven matches in all competitions, they travel to play Malky Mackay's Wigan Athletic on Tuesday intent on gaining the three points they need.

Slade, though, insists that there won't be any extra pressure because ex-City boss Mackay is the man in charge of relegated haunted Wigan.

Slade and his entire coaching staff watched Wigan crash 3-0 at home against Charlton on Friday evening, while he says: "I don't think we will be distracted because Malky Mackay is Wigan manager.

"It's about being focused and ready. We are professional people and we are intent on winning a difficult away match.

"Our job is to do everything we can to win and hopefully that will help us get a run going. We are making lift difficult for the opposition right now and staying strong at the back, but we must get the win we need."


City were disrupted by the loss of Scott Malone with a hamstring injury midway through the first half. Lee Peltier switched to the left with substutute Matt Connolly going on at right-back.

"Lee did really well at left-back," said Slade. "The loss of Malone might have caused us a problem, but we still looked solid at the back. There is a composure, we don't panic when things don't go our way.

"There is an honesty and a good attitude about the performances.

"We got in some good crosses and had chances. Overall, it was frustrating we could not come away with three points.

"Huddersfield's goalkeeper (Alex Smithies) did well to keep Eoin Doyle's header out. He threw up an arm and somehow stopped it.

"The goals aren't coming for us, but if we keep playing the way we are then the wins will come.

"I felt positive going into this match and I'll feel positive before the Wigan match. We are making progress."

City are likely to stick with Connolly and Peltier as their full-backs even though Fabio is almost fit again after injury.

"Fabio and Federico Macheda could be back in the group for our match at Wigan," said Slade. "It's going to be close, but they have made good progress from their injuries."

Think we may scrape a 1-0 win here, possibly a penalty deciding it. If not, a 0-0 draw, I can't see us losing this one.

0-1 city

1-0 Cardiff! Wigan are dead and buried

Slade has virtually a full squad to pick from other than Scott Malone and Anthony Pilkinghton who is back in training.

0 - 0

Slade has virtually a full squad to pick from other than Scott Malone and Anthony Pilkinghton who is back in training.

I can see us thrashing Wigan 3 nil

Wigan have not won at home since August with their last 13 home results seeing 6 draws and 7 losses. They have lost 6 out of their last 7 at the DW Stadium. In the 13 games they have scored 8 & conceded 18.

2-1 to Malky just out look to lose last minute of game

Wigan have signed midfielder Jermaine Pennant on a deal until the end of the season

THE TRUTH "

By Gareth Rogers

Monday 23rd Feb 2015

The stark truth is that Cardiff have earned only one win in their last 13 League games under Slade, collecting only nine points from a possible 39 in that horror run.

That solitary victory, of course, happened to coincide with the buzz surrounding the return to blue when Fulham visited the Welsh capital on January 10.

Prior to that, you have to go back to a smash and grab 1-0 away win at Watford to fund the Bluebirds’ last success.

It’s not good enough, nowhere near good enough, and Slade knows that.

Cardiff have to begin turning their draws into wins and there is no time like the present, Slade taking his team back up north when they visit struggling Wigan tomorrow evening.

If there is one team in a worse run of form than Slade’s Cardiff, then it’s the side managed these days by their old boss.


Mackay simply hasn’t made anything like the impact expected up at the DW Stadium since he was controversially appointed, given everything that was happening from his time with Cardiff, as Uwe Rosler’s successor in mid-November.

Wigan chairman Dave Whelan brushed aside the off the field Mackay fracas and was crowing about landing his man. But the fact is that of the 15 League games Mackay has taken charge of, the Latics have won just two.

Away to Leeds and Reading, not a single home victory to Mackay’s name.

It is a horrendous sequence of results which, barring a dramatic turnaround in fortunes, will see Wigan join bottom side Blackpool in League One next season.

There are many who still fear Cardiff will be joining them, but victory at Wigan should ease those pressures.

There for the taking
Wigan are there for the taking, booed off last Friday night when they crashed 0-3 at home to mid-table Charlton.

This is one Slade knows he has to target for three points and the Cardiff manager insisted: “I don’t think we will be distracted because Malky Mackay is Wigan manager.

“It’s about being focused and ready. We are professional people and we are intent on winning a difficult away match.

“Our job is to do everything we can to win and hopefully that will help us get a run going. We are making it difficult for the opposition at the moment and being strong at the back, but we must get the win we need.”

Whisper this quietly, but signs are there that better times could be around the corner.

Cardiff are becoming more difficult to beat with the outstanding Bruno Manga masterminding things from the back at Huddersfield.



He was clearly missed while away on Africa Cup of Nations duty and his return at the centre of Cardiff’s defence has coincided with the team looking more resolute.

Not that anyone should be getting too carried away with a 0-0 draw against a pretty ordinary Huddersfield outfit.

This was a dour struggle, one Cardiff just about edged in terms of having the better chances.

Terriers goalkeeper Alex Smithies denied Eoin Doyle with a wonder stop on the half-hour, adjusting his body in mid-air to tip over the Cardiff striker’s header.

Slade also believes Huddersfield’s Tommy Smith was lucky not to be sent off in first-half injury time for a foul on Kenwyne Jones, brought down on the edge of the box following a swift counter by the Bluebirds.

Magic moments
Other than those incidents, though, there wasn’t too much for people to enthuse about from this one, apart from a few moments of magic from young winger Matt Kennedy.

Referee Mark Heywood decided against showing red to Smith because he believed Jones did not have control of the ball.

“It was unfortunate and we were denied a goalscoring chance,” maintained Slade. “If we had been the home team it might have been different.”

While Slade clearly believed that Huddersfield should have been down to 10 men for the second half, home manager Chris Powell had exactly the opposite view.

“The referee was spot on - and I would have said the same had the incident been at the other end,” he said. “Cardiff’s player did not have the ball under control. It may have been in a dangerous area, but yellow was the right decision.

“The referee thought carefully before he made the decision and, in my view, got it right.”


As for what may be in store, Slade maintained: “The goals aren’t coming for us, but if we keep playing the way we are then the wins will come.

“I was positive going into this match and I’m positive before the Wigan match. We are making progress.”

If so, that progress is painstakingly slow and rather painful to watch.

Which brings us back around to Wigan. Victory up there and Cardiff will move to the 41 points mark, the same tally as Leeds United who are in 11th place in the table.

Fears
Another bore draw, and those nagging fears Cardiff could be dragged into a relegation fight will grow.

Defeat to Mackay’s men and lots will begin looking over their shoulders down towards Millwall in 22nd spot.

" WIGAN ARE THERE FOR THE TAKING "

Wigan have not won at home since August with their last 13 home results seeing 6 draws and 7 losses. They have lost 6 out of their last 7 at the DW Stadium. In the 13 games they had scored 8 & conceded 18.


Wigan are there for the taking, booed off last Friday night when they crashed 0-3 at home to mid-table Charlton.

This is one Slade knows he has to target for three points and the Cardiff manager insisted: “I don’t think we will be distracted because Malky Mackay is Wigan manager.

“It’s about being focused and ready. We are professional people and we are intent on winning a difficult away match.

“Our job is to do everything we can to win and hopefully that will help us get a run going. We are making it difficult for the opposition at the moment and being strong at the back, but we must get the win we need.”

Whisper this quietly, but signs are there that better times could be around the corner.

Cardiff are becoming more difficult to beat with the outstanding Bruno Manga masterminding things from the back at Huddersfield.


He was clearly missed while away on Africa Cup of Nations duty and his return at the centre of Cardiff’s defence has coincided with the team looking more resolute.

Not that anyone should be getting too carried away with a 0-0 draw against a pretty ordinary Huddersfield outfit.

This was a dour struggle, one Cardiff just about edged in terms of having the better chances.

Terriers goalkeeper Alex Smithies denied Eoin Doyle with a wonder stop on the half-hour, adjusting his body in mid-air to tip over the Cardiff striker’s header.

Slade also believes Huddersfield’s Tommy Smith was lucky not to be sent off in first-half injury time for a foul on Kenwyne Jones, brought down on the edge of the box following a swift counter by the Bluebirds.

2-1 City - Jones x2

TEAM NEWS
Jermaine Pennant is fit to make his Wigan debut but loan striker Leon Clarke's Latics future rests on the severity of his shoulder injury.
He joins William Kvist (hamstring), Grant Holt (knee) and Emyr Huws (ankle) on Malky Mackay's non-starter list.
Cardiff's Matt Connolly is set to be joined at the back by Lee Peltier, who replaces the injured Scott Malone.
Winger Anthony Pilkington is out, but Russell Slade has Eoin Doyle and Kenwyne Jones available up front.
MATCH FACTS

Head-to-Head
• Cardiff won the earlier meeting this season 1-0 at the Cardiff City Stadium in August - their first win in 12 meetings in all competitions.
• Wigan have won four of the last five meetings at home, drawing the other. Cardiff's only win there was 1-0 in the old Division Three in March 1997.
Wigan
• Wigan have won only one of their last 10 games in all competitions. Their only win since Boxing Day was 1-0 at Reading in the Championship on 17 February.
• Wigan have not won any of their last 13 home games, losing seven. Their last win at the DW Stadium was 4-0 against Birmingham on 30 August.
Cardiff
• Cardiff have not won any of their last eight games in all competitions, losing four. Their last win was 1-0 against Fulham at home in the Championship on 10 January.
• Cardiff have not won any of their last six away games, losing three. Their last win on the road was 1-0 at Watford on 29 November.

Wigan have signed midfielder Jermaine Pennant on a deal until the end of the season

TEAM NEWS

Jermaine Pennant is fit to make his Wigan debut but loan striker Leon Clarke's Latics future rests on the severity of his shoulder injury.

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Malky Mackay not out for revenge as Wigan boss prepares to face Cardiff for first time since controversial sacking
Wigan host Cardiff City in their Championship clash on Tuesday
Latics boss Malky Mackay insists he has nothing to prove following his acrimonious split from the Bluebirds

Wigan manager Malky Mackay insists he has nothing to prove as he prepares to come up against his former club Cardiff.
The Scot has not faced the Bluebirds since being controversially sacked by their owner Vincent Tan in December 2013 following a long bitter feud between the pair.
Mackay's current side host Cardiff at the DW Stadium on Tuesday night and he has stressed he is fully focused on Wigan's fight to stay in the Sky Bet Championship, rather than trying to get one over on the club he guided to a League Cup final and promotion to the Barclays Premier League.

how many tickets have we sold?

This could either way. I will go for a draw.