MATCH THREAD:: ‘LEEDS UNITED v CARDIFF CITY’ MATCH THREAD

FA Cup 3rd Round Replay
Wednesday 18th January 2023 KO 7:45pm.


Live on ITV 4


720 Cardiff fans are travelling


TEAM NAMED:


Cardiff City : Alnwick; Sang, Nelson, Simpson, Bagan; Sawyers, Rinomhota; Harris, Colwill, Ojo; Etete.

Subs: Allsop, Wintle, O'Dowda, Whyte, Kipre, Philogene, Ng, Davies, Robinson.







"At this time Dean Whitehead will take on the responsibility of interim first team manager. Tom Ramasut from Dinas Powys will remain as assistant manager and will be supported by goalkeeping coach Graham Stack.”


Cardiff City Dean Whitehead:

"They are all ready. Everybody is fit and healthy. We have a fully fit squad."



TEAM NEWS:


LEEDS: will be without Adam Forshaw, Crycensio Summerville, Stuart Dallas and Archie Gray with injuries. Leeds boss Jesse Marsch could welcome back Luis Sinisterra to the fold, but Liam Cooper will face a late call to be involved after picking up a knee injury.



Romeo is still out for 2 more weeks.

Collins is out for the rest of the season.

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‘ CARDIFF CITY’S NEW INTERIM MANAGER ‘



"At this time Dean Whitehead will take on the responsibility of interim first team manager. Tom Ramasut from Dinas Powys will remain as assistant manager and will be supported by goalkeeping coach Graham Stack.”




Dean Whitehead was appointed interim First Team Manager on January 14th, 2023.

Aged 41 had worked previously under Mark Hudson’s 3 match run as manager at Huddersfield where they both lost all 3 matches including a defeat against Cardiff City.

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Approx 700 tickets sold so far:

Approx 700 tickets sold so far:

Not bad for a bloody cold Wednesday night up that shite hole

Its going to be very tough, but at least our players get to see how they can do once again v Premier League

Leeds United boss Jesse Marsch believes Dean Whitehead will be gunning for the Cardiff City job and expects to face a far stronger Bluebirds team at Elland Road to reflect that.

Cardiff almost beat Leeds just over a week ago, but Sonny Perkins' last-gasp equaliser forced an equaliser up at Elland Road.

During that time, of course, Cardiff have sacked their manager, with Mark Hudson given his marching orders following the 1-1 draw with Wigan Athletic, courtesy of another last-gasp equaliser, of course, on Saturday.

Under-fire Leeds manager Marsch, though, believes his side were dominant against the Bluebirds last time out and does not expect that to be the case this time around.

In fact, he believes that Whitehead will implement a similar methodology to what West Brom used to do under Valerien Ismael, a coach Marsch knows well from their time together in Austria.

"We dug ourselves a hole in that match," Marsch said of the first tie between these two teams. "But by many standards, especially in the second half, we were absolutely dominant.

"They had 0.0 expected goals in the second half, and we were on top of the match. Now, we were lucky with the way we scored the last-second goal. You're absolutely correct about that.



"I think we'll see a stronger side. They played a lot of reserve players, I think. I think we'll see a more of a team that they played against Wigan on the weekend.


"I think that the new manager (Whitehead) will will want the job and will try to get his team to perform that way and go for the win.

"He has some history with certain people that I think also have a similar methodology to what we tried to do here. Valerien Ismael is a coach that I know well from from Austria and a very good coach. He was at West Brom and he was at Besiktas - they were at Besiktas together.

"So I expect him to play a little more intensively than they did at Cardiff, but still look to defend well and catch us on the counter. So we'll be prepared for that kind of match."

Leeds put in a valiant display against Aston Villa in the Premier League at the weekend, however they eventually fell to a 2-1 defeat, leaving them 14th in the table.

Pressure appears to be mounting on the American, however, he believes that, going into this match against Cardiff, he is as confident as he has ever been.

"I think that we can we can have hope to now handle our business on Wednesday night and go for it," Marsch said.

"We know it won't be easy, but we'll be at home. The club hasn't had a home FA Cup fixture in many years. We're going absolutely to win that match.

"We need to go match by match now in the league in the cup and try to really now take the momentum from the Aston Villa game and show that we're ready for big challenges.

"So, that's the entire focus, to have this kind of conviction and belief and understanding and go after it, moment by moment, game by game.

"My belief, sitting here right now, is higher than it's ever been. And more importantly the players are in the same position."

Cardiff take on Leeds at Elland Road on Wednesday, January 18. Kick-off is at 7.45pm.

Dean Whitehead:

"They are all ready. Everybody is fit and healthy. We have a fully fit squad."

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720 City fans

Dean Whitehead,


Cardiff's interim manager, has reported a clean bill of health from the last game against Wigan Athletic. Cardiff fans hope that means the return of Rubin Colwill, who has missed the last two matches due to illness. Jamilu Collins and Ebou Adams remain the long-term absentees, while Mahlon Romeo is also expected to be out for a few more weeks yet.

Leeds will be without Adam Forshaw, Crycensio Summerville, Stuart Dallas and Archie Gray with injuries. Leeds boss Jesse Marsch could welcome back Luis Sinisterra to the fold, but Liam Cooper will face a late call to be involved after picking up a knee injury.

Leeds boss Jesse Marsch:


"I think we'll see a stronger side. They played a lot of reserve players, I think. I think we'll see more of a team that they played against Wigan on the weekend.

"I think that the new manager (Whitehead) will will want the job and will try to get his team to perform that way and go for the win.

"He has some history with certain people that I think also have a similar methodology to what we tried to do here. Valerien Ismael is a coach that I know well from Austria and a very good coach. He was at West Brom and he was at Besiktas - they were at Besiktas together.

"So I expect him to play a little more intensively than they did at Cardiff, but still look to defend well and catch us on the counter. So we'll be prepared for that kind of match."

Leeds United v Cardiff City kicks off at 7.45pm at Elland Road on Wednesday, January 18.



What TV channel is Leeds v Cardiff on? What about live streaming?


ITV have the rights for this one. Coverage starts on ITV4 at 7pm. You can the stream the match on ITVX.

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Cardiff City : Alnwick; Sang, Nelson, Simpson, Bagan; Sawyers, Rinomhota; Harris, Colwill, Ojo; Etete.

Subs: Allsop, Wintle, O'Dowda, Whyte, Kipre, Philogene, Ng, Davies, Robinson.

Bamford on the bench tonight for Leeds

Bluebirds

City kick off

Leeds attacking straight away

Pathetic

1nil Leeds

GOAL! Leeds United 1-0 Cardiff City (Gnonto 1)
Goal. Gnonto volley.

Ohhh wow…. What a finish……

Great finish. Laughable defending by Sang. Pathetic. Very long night ahead

Great finish. Laughable defending by Sang. Pathetic. Very long night ahead

Unbelievable we passed straight back to our keeper the second the match started.

Bagan pinged again for a foul on Tyler Adams near the Leeds box.

Sang loves the old onside trap, doesn't he?

Cardiff just about scramble a cross away and Colwill earns a foul just on the edge of City's box.

Embarrassing

Great volley, though!

Great finish. Laughable defending by Sang. Pathetic. Very long night ahead

Tom Sang woeful, Gnonto must be 2foot 2inches and he made him panic, like you say pathetic.

Fair play to Leeds massive crowd and Leeds are awful at home

And live on normal tv

Rodrigo is found with a lovely diagonal ball and he cuts inside Bagan before looking to pull the trigger. However, he opts for a reverse pass - but no one is on his wavelength. Goal kick.

Terrible start from us. The defending by Sang for the goal was beyond awful.

We look like a team with no plan.