MATCH THREAD ' CARDIFF CITY V FULHAM ' MATCH THREAD

CARDIFF CITY v FULHAM
Championship
Saturday 8th August 2015 12pm.
Cardiff City Stadium

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TODAYS TEAM

CardiffCity: Moore, Peltier, Malone, Morrison, Connolly, Dikgacoi, Whittingham, Pilkington, Ralls, Revell, Mason.
Subs: Wilson, Fabio, O’Keefe, Gunnarsson, Noone, Ameobi, Doyle




Team News

Morrison is City's Captain this season.

Simon Moore will start for the Bluebirds on Saturday.

Defender Bruno Manga is out with a knee injury, although he could return to action in the Capital One Cup next week. Fellow centre-back Ben Turner will also miss the game due to an ankle problem, while Kenwyne Jones has not recovered from a muscle issue.

Matthew Connolly and Sean Morrison are poised to start in the heart of the Cardiff defence, while Eoin Doyle and Joe Mason may lead the line at Cardiff City Stadium.

Loanee Garbutt is out for the Cottagers after sustaining an ankle injury in his side's draw with Palace last week, while fellow defender Fernando Amorebieta will miss the match after undergoing surgery.

Midfielders George Williams and Scott Parker are also out of the match due to injury and Ryan Tunnicliffe is suspended. Konstantinos Mitroglou is poised to leave the Cottagers and is unlikely to feature against the Bluebirds.



Cardiff possible starting lineup:
Moore, Peltier, Connolly, Morrison, Malone, Pilkington, Digkacoi, Whittingham, Ralls, Mason, Doyle

Fulham possible starting lineup:
Lonergan, Richards, Hutchinson, Burn, Bodurov, Cairney, Christensen, O'Hara, Pringle, McCormack, Woodrow.




" UPDATED DAILY "


7 Fulham players will miss the first game of the season against Cardiff.

Scott Parker, Luke Garbutt, George Williams, Fernando Amorebieta, Ryan Tunnicliffe, Marcus Bettinelli and Adam Taggart.



" UPDATE ON SOME CARDIFF CITY PLAYERS "



If Anthony Pilkington and Kigasho Dikgacoi can remain injury free, City will have two quality players there and these two could become a major part of how our season will become

Italian striker Federico Macheda is back in training with Cardiff, but is still on his way back from a back injury.

Aron Gunnarsson trained with the main group after recovering from a hip problem, while central defenders Bruno Manga and Ben Turner were both at Cardiff City Stadium for treatment during the open training session.

They chatted to fans after being in the team photograph.

Manga was walking freely, although he is still on the mend from a knee injury, while Turner was wearing a protective plastic boot on an ankle.

Macheda, Manga and Turner will all miss this Saturday’s Championship opener against Fulham.



Simon Moore will start,due to Marshalls 3 match ban.

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Latest News


Match Preview

City are unbeaten in the last seven of their opening home matches of the season. The last three years have seen two victories over Huddersfield Town sandwich the Bluebirds’ famous defeat of Manchester City in the Barclays Premier League. Before that, Mark Hudson, Craig Conway and Robert Earnshaw were the scorers in a 3-1 Severnside Derby victory over Bristol City in 2011.

Meanwhile, City fans will also have fond memories of 2009, when Michael Chopra’s brace, a Jay Bothroyd strike and Peter Whittingham’s penalty secured a 4-0 win over Scunthorpe United on a beautiful summer’s day in the capital – a textbook perfect start, and the very first competitive action on CCS soil.

Indeed you have to go back to a 1-0 home defeat to Stoke City in 2007 to find our last loss on the opening home tie of a campaign, while we have won ten and drawn three of fifteen such fixtures since the turn of the millennium!


Possible Lineups

Cardiff City

Moore, Peltier, Morrison, Connolly, Malone, Ralls, Whittingham, Dikgacoi, Pilkington, Mason, Revell.

Fulham

Lonergan; Jazz Richards, Hutchinson, Burn, Kavanagh; Christensen, O'Hara; Cairney, McCormack, Pringle; Matt Smith

The Opposition

Fulham Football Club is a professional football club based in Fulham,London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham. Founded in 1879, they play in theFootball League Championship, having been relegated from the Premier League in 2013–14 after 13 consecutive seasons.[3] They were the oldest established football team from London playing in the Premier League.[4]

The club has spent twenty-five seasons in English football's top division, the majority of that in two spells during the 1960s and 2000s. The latter spell was associated with former chairman Mohamed Al-Fayed, after the club had climbed up from the fourth tier in the 1990s. Fulham have never won a major honour, although they have reached two major finals. In 1975, as a Second Division team, they contested the FA Cup final for the only time in their history, losing 2–0 to West Ham United. Fulham reached the 2010 Europa League final, which they contested withAtlético Madrid in Hamburg, losing 2–1 after extra time.[5]

The club has produced many English greats including Johnny Haynes, George Cohen,Bobby Robson, Rodney Marsh and Alan Mullery. They play at Craven Cottage, a ground on the banks of the River Thames in Fulham which has been their home since 1896. Fulham's training ground is located near Motspur Park, where the club's Academyis also situated.


Preseason Results

Cardiff



WED 15 JUL Forest Green Rovers Friendly Att. 1,125 (409) A 1 - 1 D

SAT 18 JUL Shrewsbury Town Friendly Att. 2,446 (782) A 2 - 2 D

TUE 21 JUL Hapoel Ironi Kiryat Shmona Friendly Att. TBC N 2 - 0 W

FRI 24 JUL Sparta Rotterdam Friendly Att. TBC N 0 - 1 W

TUE 28 JUL Watford Fc Friendly Att. TBC N 2 - 1 W

FRI 31 JUL Brighton Fc Friendly Att. TBC N 3 - 2 W

Last 5 meetings

2014/2015 Sat 10 Jan Cardiff City 1 - 0 Fulham Championship  
2014/2015 Sat 30 Aug Fulham 1 - 1 Cardiff City Championship  
2013/2014 Sat 08 Mar Cardiff City 3 - 1 Fulham Premier League  
2013/2014 Sat 28 Sept Fulham 1 - 2 Cardiff City Premier League
1998/1999 Tue 18 Aug Cardiff City 1 - 2 Fulham League Cup  


Previous Highlights



Match Odds

Cardiff 23/20
Draw 23/10
Fulham 11/5


Tickets

Tickets can be purchased in person at the ticket office situated in the Grandstand, next to corporate entrance 2.

Alternatively you can call the Stadium Ticket Office on 0845 345 1400, which is open from 9am to 5:30pm Monday to Friday and 9am to 3pm on non match-day Saturdays.

The easiest way is to book online.

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Guess the Score / Attendance

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3-1 City.

4-2

1-1

2-1

3-1 Cardiff.

Am I on the right forum nobody's said we're gna lose yet

3-2 to the boys in blue

3-1 city Mason, Whitts and late Eoin Doyle goal sets us up nicely for season ahead.


Come on the bluebirds

3-1

2 0 Jones and Revel

3-1

2-1 City

Revell and Mason

3-1 City. I'd bet my cock on it.

0-2 Fulham.

Fulham have recruited well over the summer & I can see us get caught out. Mc Cormack to come back and haunt us.

2-0 Cardiff

2-1 to Cardiff.

City 1 Fulham 4

City expecting 18,000 plus

I reckon 2-1 City 16,000 crowd

2-0 bloobirds ameobi, mason

2-1 city

0-2

often get strange results first game so i'll go for 5 -1. Unfortunately, don't know who to, hope it's us.

2-1 city

2-1 Bloooooobirds

2 1 to the City and a 14k crowd

2-2 17500 crowd

1-2

" UPDATE ON SOME CARDIFF CITY PLAYERS "

Italian striker Federico Macheda is back in training with Cardiff, but is still on his way back from a back injury.

Aron Gunnarsson trained with the main group after recovering from a hip problem, while central defenders Bruno Manga and Ben Turner were both at Cardiff City Stadium for treatment during the open training session.

They chatted to fans after being in the team photograph.

Manga was walking freely, although he is still on the mend from a knee injury, while Turner was wearing a protective plastic boot on an ankle.

Macheda, Manga and Turner will all miss this Saturday’s Championship opener against Fulham.

" HOME COMFORTS FOR CARDIFF CITY "



City are unbeaten in the last seven of their opening home matches of the season. The last three years have seen two victories over Huddersfield Town sandwich the Bluebirds’ famous defeat of Manchester City in the Barclays Premier League. Before that, Mark Hudson, Craig Conway and Robert Earnshaw were the scorers in a 3-1 Severnside Derby victory over Bristol City in 2011.



Meanwhile, City fans will also have fond memories of 2009, when Michael Chopra’s brace, a Jay Bothroyd strike and Peter Whittingham’s penalty secured a 4-0 win over Scunthorpe United on a beautiful summer’s day in the capital – a textbook perfect start, and the very first competitive action on CCS soil.



Indeed you have to go back to a 1-0 home defeat to Stoke City in 2007 to find our last loss on the opening home tie of a campaign, while we have won ten and drawn three of fifteen such fixtures since the turn of the millennium!

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