MATCH THREA: " CARDIFF CITY v WYCOMBE WANDERERS " MATCH THRE

CARDIFF CITY v WYCOMBE WANDERERS
Saturday 24th April, 3pm
Sky Bet Championship
Cardiff City Stadium 


Match to be played in front of no supporters, for information on how to watch the match on TV or to stream it - see below


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Cardiff City: Smithies; Nelson, Flint, Morrison; Ng, Pack, Ralls, Brown; Colwill, Murphy, Moore.

Subs: Phillips, Osei-Tutu, Vaulks, Bacuna, Williams, Ojo, Wilson, Harris, Watters.


CCFC :


Tom Sang has been ruled out for the rest of the season after sustaining toe ligament damage against Brentford, meaning Arsenal loanee Jordi Osei-Tutu will end the campaign at right-back.


Mick McCarthy has once again suggested he may give opportunities to academy players, but that is a pledge which is yet to come to fruition.

Joe Bennett and Joel Bagan are both long-term absentees, while it still seems unlikely that Lee Tomlin will play a part in the remainder of the campaign.

Lee Tomlin after over 6 months still not fully fit.




WYCOMBE:

In the Wycombe camp, Josh Knight remains suspended, while Ryan Tafazolli, Dominic Gape and Nnamdi Ofoborh will be absent through injury.




CCFC;


Kieffer Moore is ok


Tom Sang ruled out for the season. A shame, been quality since he came in, but has done enough to get fans excited about him for next season.

Sean Morrison will also miss tomorrow but it is hoped he will be back for the final two games




Lee Tomlin still not fully fit.


Joe Bennett is a long-term absentee owing to his operation following the ACL injury he sustained.

Joel Bagan is also out for the season after surgery on his dislocated shoulder.

Isaac Vassell is still out with a view to him being ready for pre-season.

Mick McCarthy has hinted at some changes though, stating that City's youngsters might get their chance to shine in the coming weeks



About Wycombe Wanderers

Wycombe Wanderers Football Club is an English professional association football club based in the town of High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire. The team compete in the Championship, the second tier of the English football league system. They play their home matches at Adams Park, located on the western outskirts of High Wycombe, having moved after 95 years at Loakes Park in 1990. The club traditionally plays in quartered shirts of navy (Oxford blue) and pale blue (Cambridge blue). The club's nicknames are "The Chairboys" and "The Blues".

Founded in 1887, they entered the Southern League in 1896. They switched to the Great Western Suburban League in 1908 and then the Spartan League in 1919, before joining the Isthmian League after winning the Spartan League in 1919–20 and 1920–21. They spent 64 years in the Isthmian League, winning eight league titles and one FA Amateur Cup title. Having rejected numerous invitations to join the Alliance Premier (Gola) League (now National League), they finally accepted an offer in 1985 and eventually found success in the fifth tier of English football under the management of Martin O'Neill, winning promotion into the Football League as GM Vauxhall Conference champions in 1992–93. They also lifted the FA Trophy in 1991 and 1993, and won the Conference League Cup, Conference Shield (three times) and Conference Charity Shield.

Wycombe made an immediate impact in the Football League, winning promotion out of the Third Division via the play-offs in 1994. They spent a decade in the third tier and reached the FA Cup semi-finals in 2001, though were relegated three years later. They also reached the League Cup semi-finals in 2007 and then gained promotion out of League Two in 2008–09. This was the first of four successive seasons of promotions and relegations between League Two and League One, which was followed by a decline that saw the club only avoid relegation into non-league on goal difference in 2014. The club secured promotion out of League Two in 2017–18 under the stewardship of Gareth Ainsworth, who then took the club to the Championship for the first time in the club's history with victory in the 2020 League One play-off final.

Previous Meeting 

Wycombe beat us 2-1 in December

Team News - Predicted Line-Ups

Cardiff City: Phillips, Sang, Nelson, Flint, Ng, Ralls, Vaulks, Pack, Ralls, Wilson, Moore

Wycombe Wanderers: Stockdale, McCarthy, Grimmer, Stewart, Jacobson, Onyedinma, Thompson, Adeniran, McCleary, Muskwe, Ikpeazu

Form - Last Three Games

Brentford 1-1 Cardiff City
Reading 1-1 Cardiff City
Cardiff City 2-2 Blackburn Rovers

Wycombe Wanderers 2-1 Bristol City
Swansea City 2-2 Wycombe Wanderers
Wycombe Wanderers 1-3 Luton Town

Match Odds

Cardiff City - 4/7
Wycombe Wanderers - 11/2
Draw - 13/5

Predictions

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Sean Morrison?

Lee Tomlin?


Joe Bennett is a long-term absentee owing to his operation following the ACL injury he sustained.

Joel Bagan is also out for the season after surgery on his dislocated shoulder.

Isaac Vassell is still out with a view to him being ready for pre-season.

Mick McCarthy has hinted at some changes though, stating that City's youngsters might get their chance to shine in the coming weeks

City 4 nil

Wycombe won 2-1 at home to Wycombe tonight

Wycombe won 2-1 at home to Wycombe tonight

Results / Table:

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Wycombe won 2-1 at home to Wycombe tonight

Running out of games....



City by 2 clear goals

Cardiff last hosted Wycombe Wanderers in October 2002 at Ninian Park, winning 1-0 with a goal from Graham Kavanagh.



Wycombe have never won an away game against Cardiff in the Football League in four attempts, all between 1995 and 2002 (D1 L3).


Cardiff are winless in their last four home league games (D2 L2), they last failed to win five consecutive Championship home games in March 2015 (6 - D3 L3).



Wycombe are unbeaten in three away league games (W1 D2), their longest such run this season, they’ve picked up more points in these three matches (5) than in their previous 10 on the road in the Championship (4 – W1 D1 L8).



Cardiff have scored the most goals from set piece situations in the Championship this season (30), while only Bristol City (26) and Rotherham (25) have conceded more such goals than Wycombe (22).

Betting odds

Cardiff City win - 8/13

Draw - 14/5

Wycombe Wanderers win - 17/4

Wycombe still with a shout of staying up?




BIG MICK:

They were brilliant on Wednesday night. Bristol [City] were better in the first half.

They probably could have packed it up but they came out second half and it was a rip-roaring performance.

Normally I’d have left 10 minutes before the end but I stayed there and enjoyed every second of it.

I thought they were brilliant and I was delighted for them. Gareth [Ainsworth] has done a great job for them.

They are a mirror image of him, when he was playing.

Mick McCarthy

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Tom Sang ruled out for the season. A shame, been quality since he came in, but has done enough to get fans excited about him for next season.

Sean Morrison will also miss tomorrow but it is hoped he will be back for the final two games

CCFC :


Tom Sang has been ruled out for the rest of the season after sustaining toe ligament damage against Brentford, meaning Arsenal loanee Jordi Osei-Tutu will end the campaign at right-back.

Captain Sean Morrison is also set to miss Saturday’s game, but is expected to return for the final two fixtures against Birmingham City and Rotherham United.

Mick McCarthy has once again suggested he may give opportunities to academy players, but that is a pledge which is yet to come to fruition.

Joe Bennett and Joel Bagan are both long-term absentees, while it still seems unlikely that Lee Tomlin will play a part in the remainder of the campaign.





WYCOMBE:

In the Wycombe camp, Josh Knight remains suspended, while Ryan Tafazolli, Dominic Gape and Nnamdi Ofoborh will be absent through injury.

2-0 (Flint. Moore )

Cardiff City: Smithies; Nelson, Flint, Morrison; Ng, Pack, Ralls, Brown; Colwill, Murphy, Moore.

Subs: Phillips, Osei-Tutu, Vaulks, Bacuna, Williams, Ojo, Wilson, Harris, Watters.

Bluebirds

Afternoon gents

Afternoon gents

Afternoon gents

Great work from Murphy down the left and he whips in a dangerous cross towards Colwill, but the forward is adjudged offside.

Watching the Mighty Bluebirds game in My local Cantina Santa Ponsa / Rick Vaughn

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Moore holds the ball up and finds Colwill, who sends a laser-like pass across the box to Murphy, who touches and tries to slot, but Stockdale gets a strong left paw to it.

Sean Morrison is down and receiving treatment on the far side. Not sure what happened there but it came after a coming together with Ikpeazu.

looks not good

Looks to have hurt his arm, the skipper, but he's back on.

Colwill sprints down the right flank and carries it all the way to the byline, he looks to cross but it's blocked for a corner.

Great work from the youngster.

Murphy's corner is too close to Stockdale.

First Wycombe attack as a cross is floated to the back post, but Thompson heads over.

Cardiff seeing the most of the ball and having the better opportunities thus far, but Wycombe do look as though they can pounce on the break.

Not good Morrison receiving treatment again. That arm still troubling him.