MATCH THREAD: " NOTTINGHAM FOREST V CARDIFF C " MATCH THREA

NOTTINGHAM FOREST v CARDIFF CITY
Saturday 30th November, 3pm
SkyBet Championship
The City Ground 



Cardiff City Etheridge; Peltier, Nelson, Flint, Bennett; Pack, Bacuna; Mendez-Laing, Tomlin, Hoilett; Madine

Subs: Smithies, Morrison, Vaulks, Murphy, Paterson, Ward, Coxe




Cardiff Allocation if needed 2,500 tickets


Cardiff have sold just under 1,400 tickets 3pm Away game at Nottingham Forest

Four points out of a possible six so far for Neil Harris


Latest Team News:

Cardiff City


Neil Harris will have to decide whether to stick or twist on the selection of Robert Glatzel, who the boss has described as a 'risk that might be worth taking'.

The German striker has scored twice for the Bluebirds since his £5.5m move from Heidenheim in the summer, but he has been sidelined since the South Wales derby a month ago.

Glatzel has been struggling with a hamstring problem and has missed City's last four matches, including both under new manager Harris.

But, even with Danny Ward also returning from a three-match suspension following his red card against Birmingham City, Harris suggested he might throw Glatzel back into the mix against Nottingham Forest today.

"Robert Glatzel is a bit of a risk to involve this weekend," said Harris, "and maybe it’s one worth taking."

Ward's return and Glatzel's timely recovery from fitness will likely mean Omar Bogle misses out all together.

In midfield, Joe Ralls is still a way off making his return, with Harris revealing that the player has not even back training with the squad yet.

Ralls has been in real form this season and his omission is a big blow for the Bluebirds.

Gavin Whyte will also miss the clash with Forest. The winger strained his hamstring while away with Northern Ireland on international duty and while he has trained with the squad, today's fixture will be too soon for him.

Armand Traore has suffered a setback with a calf strain, meaning he won't be involved, while Sol Bamba and Jazz Richards, both of whom played for the under-23s this week, are not quite up to speed yet.



Isaac Vassell and Matt Connolly are both long-term absentees.





Nottingham Forest:


For the hosts, Ryan Yates will be absent in midfield as he serves the second match of a two-game ban.

Alfa Semedo could fill that berth in midfield after he scored in a brief cameo at QPR. Tiago Silva, Ben Watson and Joe Lollley will all be in contention too, though, meaning Semedo will likely be on the bench.

Elsewhere they are relatively unscathed in terms of absentees.




About Nottingham Forest

Nottingham Forest Football Club, often referred to as Forest, is a professional football club based in West Bridgford, Nottinghamshire, England. They are also the oldest professional football league club in the world. Forest was founded in 1865 and have played home matches at the City Ground since 1898. They currently compete in the EFL Championship, the second tier of the English football league system.

Forest have won 1 League title, 2 FA Cups, 4 League Cups, 1 FA Charity Shield, 2 European Cups, and 1 UEFA Super Cup. The club has competed in the top two tiers of English football since their admission to the Football League, except for five seasons spent in the third tier. Their most successful period was under the management of Brian Clough and Peter Taylor in the late 1970s and early 1980s.

In Clough's last decade at the club, Forest won the 1989 and 1990 League Cups and were losing finalists in the 1991 FA Cup Final, before relegation from the Premier League in 1993. Upon an immediate return Forest finished third in the Premier League in 1995, before the club suffered relegation again in 1997 and, after a brief return, once more in 1999. Forest have not returned to the Premier League since.

Forest contest the Nottingham derby with city rivals Notts County, however as Forest have predominantly played in higher leagues than County fixtures between the two clubs have been rare in recent history. As such their main rivalry is with Derby County, and matches between the two clubs are known as the East Midlands derby.

Previous Meeting

We last played Forest in April 2018. We won the Championship fixture 2-1 at Cardiff City Stadium. Liam Bridcutt equalised for the visitors following Sean Morrison's opener, but Aron Gunnarson got the three points for us.

Team News - Predicted Line-Ups

Nottingham Forest: Samba, Cash, Figueiredo, Worrall, Robinson, Adomah, Watson, Silva, Lolley, Ameobi, Grabban

Cardiff City: Etheridge, Peltier, Nelson, Flint, Bennett, Pack, Bacuna, Hoilett, Mendez-Laing, Tomlin, Madine

Form - Last Three Games  

QPR 0-4 Nottingham Forest
Bristol City 0-0 Nottingham Forest
Nottingham Forest 1-0 Derby County

Cardiff City 1-0 Stoke City
Charlton Athletic 2-2 Cardiff City
Cardiff City 0-1 Bristol City 

Match Odds

Nottingham Forest - 5/4
Cardiff City - 11/5
Draw - 23/10

Predictions

Post your predictions below 

Forest go to QPR on Wednesday night.

Can't see us getting anything here. Going for a comfortable home win unfortunately. I think we will finish the season in roughly the position we are now. Always thought top ten was achievable, but we will have to improve to avoid dropping a few places. Still think WBA & Leeds will grab the automatic promotion places.

Dont really know what to expect on saturday!
Were either going to get battered or batter them!

Nottingham Forest 0-0 Cardiff City. Forest have a great defensive record but struggle to score a lot of goals. Can see a very tight game with not many chances for either team.

FOREST Beat QPR - Away from Home 4-0 tonight

Well at least Sol Bamba can report back to NH - With his scout report

FOREST Beat QPR - Away from Home 4-0 tonight

Well at least Sol Bamba can report back to NH - With his scout report

To be fair, QPR played 40 minutes with ten men and most of the goals were very late on.

FOREST Beat QPR - Away from Home 4-0 tonight

Well at least Sol Bamba can report back to NH - With his scout report

To be fair, QPR played 40 minutes with ten men and most of the goals were very late on.

Still an impressive win and we couldn't break Fulham down for 25 minutes with 10 men

Is this game pay on the gate. I've got 4 tickets but someone else now wants to go. I could still get another through the office buts a pain.

Nottingham Forest 0-0 Cardiff City. Forest have a great defensive record but struggle to score a lot of goals. Can see a very tight game with not many chances for either team.

would bite your hand off for that.

Cardiff Allocation if needed 2,500 tickets

Pay on the day for Cardiff fans

Going to be Neil Harris toughest match and for me a draw away at Forest would be good

The players will now know how Neil Harris works.

I will go for 1-1 or 2-2

FOREST Beat QPR - Away from Home 4-0 tonight

Well at least Sol Bamba can report back to NH - With his scout report

To be fair, QPR played 40 minutes with ten men and most of the goals were very late on.

Still an impressive win and we couldn't break Fulham down for 25 minutes with 10 men

Also a fair point.

FOREST Beat QPR - Away from Home 4-0 tonight

Well at least Sol Bamba can report back to NH - With his scout report

To be fair, QPR played 40 minutes with ten men and most of the goals were very late on.

Still an impressive win and we couldn't break Fulham down for 25 minutes with 10 men

Also a fair point.

Liverpool would have struggled to break down a team playing football inside own half most of game? And as I've said before teams with ten men are harder to play against and do win games on regular basis

I can’t see anything other than a forest win here unfortunately, I hope I’m wrong though.
I’ll go for Forest 2-0 City

Cardiff have sold just under 1,400 tickets for tomorrow’s 3pm Away game at Nottingham Forest

Latest Team News:

Cardiff City


Neil Harris will have to decide whether to stick or twist on the selection of Robert Glatzel, who the boss has described as a 'risk that might be worth taking'.

The German striker has scored twice for the Bluebirds since his £5.5m move from Heidenheim in the summer, but he has been sidelined since the South Wales derby a month ago.

Glatzel has been struggling with a hamstring problem and has missed City's last four matches, including both under new manager Harris.

But, even with Danny Ward also returning from a three-match suspension following his red card against Birmingham City, Harris suggested he might throw Glatzel back into the mix against Nottingham Forest today.

"Robert Glatzel is a bit of a risk to involve this weekend," said Harris, "and maybe it’s one worth taking."

Ward's return and Glatzel's timely recovery from fitness will likely mean Omar Bogle misses out all together.

In midfield, Joe Ralls is still a way off making his return, with Harris revealing that the player has not even back training with the squad yet.

Ralls has been in real form this season and his omission is a big blow for the Bluebirds.

Gavin Whyte will also miss the clash with Forest. The winger strained his hamstring while away with Northern Ireland on international duty and while he has trained with the squad, today's fixture will be too soon for him.

Armand Traore has suffered a setback with a calf strain, meaning he won't be involved, while Sol Bamba and Jazz Richards, both of whom played for the under-23s this week, are not quite up to speed yet.



Isaac Vassell and Matt Connolly are both long-term absentees.





Nottingham Forest:


For the hosts, Ryan Yates will be absent in midfield as he serves the second match of a two-game ban.

Alfa Semedo could fill that berth in midfield after he scored in a brief cameo at QPR. Tiago Silva, Ben Watson and Joe Lollley will all be in contention too, though, meaning Semedo will likely be on the bench.

Elsewhere they are relatively unscathed in terms of absentees.

Be interesting if Glatziel plays how he gets on with a slightly different style of play.....hasn’t delivered for us yet but tbf has had rubbish service in most games.
Maybe he will show why Warnock paid all those bucks for him

Good job not playing derby they'll call it off because of fog!
(Its misty here)

All the key facts for today

Nottingham Forest have won only once in their last 12 league games against Cardiff City (W1 D1 L10), failing to win any of the last nine (D1 L8).

Cardiff City have won each of their last four away league games versus Nottingham Forest – they’ve never won five consecutive away games against an opponent in the EFL.

Nottingham Forest have kept three consecutive clean sheets (W2 D1), last going longer without conceding in the Championship in February 2016 (a run of four).
Cardiff have failed to win any of their opening nine away league games in back-to-back seasons, however their first away victory last season came in their 10th such game, beating Leicester City 1-0 at the King Power.
Since the start of last season, only four players have scored more Championship goals than Nottingham Forrest’s Lewis Grabban (24).
Cardiff’s Robert Glatzel has committed 23 fouls in the Championship this season without receiving a single booking – only Middlesbrough’s Britt Assombalonga (33) has conceded more fouls in the competition in 2019-20 without receiving a card.

Cardiff City: Etheridge; Peltier, Nelson, Flint, Bennett; Pack, Bacuna; Mendez-Laing, Tomlin, Hoilett; Madine

Subs: Smithies, Morrison, Vaulks, Murphy, Paterson, Ward, Coxe

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Early pressure from Forest

Cardiff freekick whipped in far right corner, gone out

Tomlin earns another free-kick, this time in a dangerous position for Cardiff, but Flint fouls one of Forest’s defenders at the back post. Forest then break and Sammy Ameobi earns a corner from Peliter blocking his cross.

The best chance so far. Lewis Grabban collects the ball and feeds Ameobi in the box, but the striker can’t get his shot away and fluffs his lines.

More pressure from the hosts and this time it comes down the right as Matty Cash’s cross is deflected wide by Joe Bennett. The Forest corner is cleared, however.

1nil City

1-0 Mendez-Laing

What a goal