' MATCH THREAD : MK DONS v CARDIFF CITY ' MATCH THREAD '

MK DONS v CARDIFF CITY
Championship
Saturday, 26 December, 15:00
Stadium mk

" UPDATED DAILY "

City 15/8 to win today

25/12/15

Cardiff City starting XI: Marshall, Peltier, Malone, Manga, Connolly, Gunnarsson, Ralls, Pilkington, Ameobi, Watt, Jones

Subs: Moore, Fabio, O’Keefe, Dikgacoi, Whittingham, Noone, Mason

IT IS PAY ON THE GATE FOR CARDIFF FANS AWAY AT MK DONS TOMORROW

Well Over a 1,000 Cardiff Fans are Travelling


Slade has a strong team to pick from

24/12/15 Team News


Cardiff City

The front two once again will be Kenwyne Jones and Tony Watt.

Manga looks certain to start.

Fabio is expected to start,with Declan John on the bench.

Russell Slade has been hit by injuries in the defensive department this week with Sean Morrison going off injured early on in the Birmingham game and Ben Turner suffering a serious ankle injury while on a short term loan at Coventry City. Sean Morrison looks like being out for ‘four to six weeks’ with a knee injury while Ben Turner could face up to four months on the sidelines as yet another serious injury looks to damage his hopes of a contract renewal. Idriss Saadi remains out until the new year also.


Last chance to pick up MK Dons tickets is Thursday 24/12/15 12pm.




Team News

MK Dons

The Dons only have two injury concerns with Matt Upson (calf) missing out and Joe Walsh (knee) also. Manager Karl Robinson stated that his team had “a couple of bumps and bruises” but there were no fresh injuries to affect his team selection.


23/12/15

Sean Morrison will be out for up to six weeks with a knee injury

Ben Turner, who Cardiff had considered recalling from a loan at Coventry City, faces an operation on an ankle problem and could be out for the season.

22/12/15
Scott Young says Sean Morrison will be out of action for up to six weeks with a knee injury. The club are still awaiting further medical updates.



Striker Alex Revell has been recalled from Wigan.



Latest News



Possible Lineups

Cardiff City

01 Marshall
02 Peltier
05 Ecuele Manga
16 Connolly
28 Malone
38 Ameobi
17 Gunnarsson
08 Ralls
13 Pilkington
09 Jones
33 Watt

MK Dons

01 Martin
12 Spence
05 McFadzean
06 Kay
03 Lewington
14 Carruthers
08 Potter
38 Hall
10 Reeves
09 Bowditch
28 Maynard


The Opposition



Milton Keynes Dons Football Club is an English football club based since 2007 at Stadium mk, Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire, about 56 miles (90 km) north of London. The result of Wimbledon F.C.'s relocation to Milton Keynes from south London in September 2003, the club officially considers itself to have been founded in 2004, when it adopted its present name, badge and home colours. As of the 2015–16 season its first team plays in the Championship, the second tier of English football.

Initially based at the National Hockey Stadium, the club competed as MK Dons from the start of the 2004–05 season. After two years in League One it was relegated to the fourth-tier League Two The club then missed out on promotion in the play offs, before moving to the newly built Stadium MK for the 2007–08 season and won the League Two title under the management of Paul Ince. MK Dons also won the Football League Trophy that year. The team remained in League One until the 2014–15 season when it won promotion to the Championship under the management of Karl Robinson. MK Dons have built a strong reputation for youth development—between 2004 and 2014 the club gave first team debuts to 14 local academy graduates.

2015/16 Latest Results

Cardiff

FRI 18 DEC 2015 - CHAMPIONSHIP Birmingham 1 - 0 Cardiff
TUE 15 DEC 2015 - CHAMPIONSHIP Cardiff 3 - 2 Brentford
SAT 12 DEC 2015 - CHAMPIONSHIP Cardiff 2 - 2 Sheff Wed
SAT 5 DEC 2015 - CHAMPIONSHIP Bolton 2 - 3 Cardiff


MK Dons

SAT 19 DEC 2015 - CHAMPIONSHIP Nottm Forest 2 - 1 MK Dons
TUE 15 DEC 2015 - CHAMPIONSHIP MK Dons 2 - 1 Sheff Wed
SAT 12 DEC 2015 - CHAMPIONSHIP MK Dons 0 - 1 Ipswich'
SAT 5 DEC 2015 - CHAMPIONSHIP Brentford 2 - 0 MK Dons


Recent meetings

2015/2016 Tue 25 Aug Milton Keynes 2 - 1 Cardiff City League Cup
2008/2009 Tue 26 Aug Cardiff City 2 - 1 Milton Keynes League Cup
2004/2005 Tue 21 Sep Milton Keynes 1 - 4 Cardiff City League Cup


Previous Highlights




Match Odds

MK Dons 8/5
Draw 7/4
Cardiff 11/5


Stadium MK



The Club moved to the new stadium in 2007. The stadium cost in the region of £50m to build, and the money has been well spent. As in my opinion it is a 'cut above' some other new comparable stadiums, in terms of quality and standards of spectator facilities. From the outside it has a modern look, with good use of silver coloured cladding and a large amount of glass on view. The most striking feature of the stadium is its roof, which sits high up above the football ground with a large gap between in and the back roof of seating. This allows more natural light to reach the pitch. The stadium is totally enclosed and has a bowl like design.

The overall look of the stadium has recently benefited from the installation of seating into the previously unused upper tier. It certainly now looks a large and imposing stadium, one that is worthy of football at a higher level. It is two tiered, with on three sides having a large lower tier being over hung by a smaller upper tier. The West side of the stadium is slightly different, with the seating areas in the upper tier being replaced by the Director's Box and executive and corporate hospitality areas. Unusually the spacious concourse areas at the back of the lower tier see directly into the stadium, so there is what seems a noticeable gap between the lower and upper tiers is where the concourse is located.


Tickets

Sat. 26th December 2015. KO: 3pm

Available to current Season Ticket Holders and Gold / Junior Bluebird Members only.

General Ticket Prices
Adults: £25.00
Senior Citizens over 65: £17.00
U18’s: £7.00

Disabled Allocations
Disabled (Ambulant + Wheelchair): £17.00
Carer: free of charge

Additional Information
Limited parking is available on the stadium:mk site at £7.00 per car, and a Park + Walk option is also available for £5.00.
These spaces can also be pre-booked, here >>> ticketmonkey.eu/event/23_mk-match-parking
Match-day spaces for blue badge holders are also limited and must be pre-booked by emailing customer.services@mkdons.com

Tickets on sale
9am on Monday, 30th November 2016
0845 345 1400
http://www.eticketing.co.uk/cardiffcity


Guess the Score / Attendance

Post your predicted score/attendance below

Cardiff City have recalled striker Alex Revell from his loan spell at League One side Wigan, scoring just one goal.

MK DONS 1 CITY 3

1-3 City.

MK Dons 0-2 City

MK DONS 0 - 2 CITY

2-1 Dons I'm afraid.

*Ticket office said Friday when we called in before Birmingham that 1200-1500 had been sold. hopefully expecting 1700 plus

2-1 to the boys in blue.

Watt and Pilko

Mk 1-2 Cardiff watt 2

Going to game and reckon it'll be 2:1 city

Kenwyn to play well

2 3 to cardiff.

mk dons go two ahead early on

I feel it in my bones.

Scott Young says Sean Morrison will be out of action for up to six weeks with a knee injury. The club are still awaiting further medical updates.

Think we will probably lose this one, going for a 2-1 defeat given our away form so far.

Dip in form for MK Dons however have some dangerous players in Lewington Curruthers and Bowditch - 2-2

1-1 me thinks (watt)

How many will we take ?

Draw

Surely has to be a City win, MK only won 1 game from their last 7 league games including 3 defeats in their last 4 matches

Even worse MK only 2 wins from their last 19 League games

Last chance to pick up MK Dons tickets is Thursday 12pm.

Surely 3pts for us, I'm saying 1-2 City

Whittingham to be involved from the bench or starting.. if that happens then it''s a city win for me.

All depends on Slades starting line up....... Bring Fabio and Noone back into the line up and put the opposition under pressure from the start. Mk Dons will be really low on confidence going in to this game so let's get at them and don't let them gain any momentum. Let's not have a repeat of the Brum game where we threw away a golden opportunity for 3pts against a team struggling at home with four regulars missing .
No matter what you think of Craig Noone, he always warrants two opposition players to look out for him, thus giving Anthony Watt and our midfielders the extra space in the middle to get forward and create goal scoring opportunities. The same applies to Fabio on the other side.
It was no surprise to me on Friday night that despite a massive advantage in the possession stakes, and looking good in possession,we only managed a paltry 3 attempts on goal with danger man Watt repeatedly having to come far too deep to receive the ball. Slade should have seen we were clearly unbalanced as an attacking force without Noone, which was a shame after previously smashing 9 goals in a 4 game unbeaten run.
So with our best defender Manga rightly back in the starting line up, and if Slade starts with Fabio and Noone , I predict a 2-0 win for the Bluebirds.

Sean Morrison will be out for up to six weeks with a knee injury

Ben Turner, who Cardiff had considered recalling from a loan at Coventry City, faces an operation on an ankle problem and could be out for the season.

4-1 to CCFC

Over 1,000 City fans will be there

MK Dons head into the first of their festive fixtures against Cardiff with no new problems.

Manager Karl Robinson has some players nursing minor bumps and bruises but nothing that should have an affect on his team selection.

Robinson likes to alternate his midfield and attacking players so Sam Gallagher, Daniel Powell, Josh Murphy, Diego Poyet and Carl Baker will hope to be restored to the starting line-up, although there will not be many changes to the side that lost at Nottingham Forest last weekend.

Defenders Joe Walsh (knee) and Matt Upson (calf) are still not ready for first-team consideration.
Cardiff defender Sean Morrison misses his first Championship game of the season after being ruled out for over a month.

Morrison was forced off in the early stages of Friday's 1-0 defeat at Birmingham and, though Cardiff are waiting for a full report on the 24-year-old's knee injury, they have been told he will be sidelined for between "four to six weeks".

Cardiff had considered recalling Ben Turner from Coventry but he has an ankle problem which may require surgery, so last season's player of the year Bruno Manga will deputise.

Loan striker Tony Watt, who has scored twice in five games, will link up alongside Kenwyne Jones once again with the former Celtic striker expected to complete a £1million move from Charlton in the new year.

24/12/15 Team News


Cardiff City

Russell Slade has been hit by injuries in the defensive department this week with Sean Morrison going off injured early on in the Birmingham game and Ben Turner suffering a serious ankle injury while on a short term loan at Coventry City. Sean Morrison looks like being out for ‘four to six weeks’ with a knee injury while Ben Turner could face up to four months on the sidelines as yet another serious injury looks to damage his hopes of a contract renewal. Idriss Saadi remains out until the new year also.


Last chance to pick up MK Dons tickets is Thursday 24/12/15 12pm.

Team News

MK Dons

The Dons only have two injury concerns with Matt Upson (calf) missing out and Joe Walsh (knee) also. Manager Karl Robinson stated that his team had “a couple of bumps and bruises” but there were no fresh injuries to affect his team selection.