MATCH THREA: " BIRMINGHAM CITY v CARDIFF CITY " MATCH THREAD

BIRMINGHAM CITY v CARDIFF CITY
Tuesday 14th February, 7.45pm
Sky Bet Championship
St Andrew's 




Hopefully 2,000 Bluebirds travel the short distance up the M5.



TEAM NEWS:

Over all hardly any injuries in the last few months.


Mahlon Romeo is fit

Ebou Adams needs more time
He’s not training yet and it still looks to be another month.

Lamouchi





How is the squad looking?

No problem at all. Just maybe Rubin Colwill received a kick in his ankle, so he didn’t train last week, but should be ok now.

Lamouchi



Can I stream or watch the match on TV?

This match is live on Cardiff City TV.


The Opposition's Manager - John Eustace

Eustace has been in charge at Birmingham since July. Along with these duties, he is assistant manager of the Republic of Ireland national team.

His only previous permanent management role came between 2016 and 2018 when he was in charge of non-league club Kidderminster.

He was also assistant manager at QPR for around four years between 2018 and 2022. In 2019, he was caretaker manager there for seven games and helped them avoid relegation to League One.

Opposition Dangerous Players

Scott Hogan has scored ten league goals this season.

On loan from Manchester United, Hannibal Mejbri was very impressive against West Brom on Friday night.

Previous Meeting 

We beat Birmingham 1-0 in August

Team News - Predicted Line-Ups

Birmingham City: Ruddy, Colin, Sanderson, Long, Trusty, Bielik, Hannibal, Bacuna, Chong, Hogan, Jutkiewicz

Cardiff City: Allsop, Romeo, McGuinness, Kipre, O'Dowda, Ralls, Sawyers, Ojo, Philogene, Robinson, Kaba

Form - Last Three Competitive Games

Birmingham City 2-0 West Bromwich Albion
Swansea City 3-4 Birmingham City
Birmingham City 0-1 Blackburn Rovers (AET)

Cardiff City 1-3 Middlesbrough
Hull City 1-0 Cardiff City
Luton Town 1-0 Cardiff City

Match Odds

Birmingham City - 6/5
Cardiff City - 12/5
Draw - 21/10

Predictions

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TEAM NEWS:

Over all hardly any injuries in the last few months.


Mahlon Romeo is fit

Ebou Adams needs more time
He’s not training yet and it still looks to be another month.

Lamouchi





How is the squad looking?

No problem at all. Just maybe Rubin Colwill received a kick in his ankle, so he didn’t train last week, but should be ok now.

Lamouchi

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" SABRI LAMOUCHI UPDATES CARDIFF CITY FANS "


Cardiff have not won a game for over 3 and a half months and only scored 2 goals in their last 8 league games.



SABRI LAMOUCHI:

"Of course we have the players and the squad for scoring goals that. We have quality. We have to do more. Each player has to do more to try to change that."


"We are trying to sign Connor Wickham, so he is training with us. I hope he will be part of the squad."

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27th January 2023 Sabri Lamouchi New Manager:



Tues Jan 31st 7:45pm Luton Town 1 Cardiff City 0 Crowd 9,031 Away Support ( 544 )


Sat Feb 4 – Hull City 1 Cardiff City 0 Crowd 16,584 Away Support ( 530 )

Sat Feb 11 – Cardiff City 1 Middlesbrough 3 Crowd 19,182 Away Support 1,820 )

Tue Feb 14 – Birmingham City v Cardiff City Crowd Away Support ( )

Sky Friday Feb 17 - 8pm Cardiff City v Reading (H)

Sat Feb 25 – Norwich City (A)



12:30pm Sat Mar 4 – Cardiff City v Bristol City Crowd Away Support ( )

Sat Mar 11 – Preston North End (A)

Wed Mar 15 – West Bromwich Albion (H)

Sat Mar 18 – Rotherham United (A)

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Wickham deal on brink of completion:


Cardiff boss Sabri Lamouchi says he hopes to have Connor Wickham available for Tuesday night's trip to Birmingham City.

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Away sales are currently at 780+. Thank you, #Bluebirds!

Our Ticket Office will sell until 5pm today. @BCFC will be offering sales on the day, from the away turnstiles. Cash only

Is this actually on sky sports arena?

Cityboy 1908

Game is not the main game on arena but on the red button on arena.

Is this actually on sky sports arena?

Said it was on flash score, but on MNF tonight when they were saying the games coming up on Sky it was a different game on there.

It will be on Cardiff City TV though. Updated the topic with this.

What are the odds?



Birmingham City win - 5/4

Draw - 9/4

Cardiff City win - 9/4

(Odds courtesy of SkyBet, correct at time of publishing. Please gamble responsibly.)

Desperate for 3 points tonight.

DONE DEAL:

Connor Wickham officially signs for Cardiff City on a deal until the end of the season. Will wear No.31.
Available for game at Birmingham City tonight.

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Tough game love a win, but can we see one coming, tough to see it at this rate...

Cityboy 1908

Game is not the main game on arena but on the red button on arena.

Nice one fella

2 big strikers and no wingers bit like mc carthy days

Strong management leaving out Ojo and Robinson. Good decision for me though. And O'Dowda back on the wing.

Come on bluebirds!

Is this a 5-3-2 or 4-3-3 with NG left back.

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The pitch looks like it’s been flooded at some point the past few days

Cardiff City XI: Allsop; Romeo, Ng, McGuinness, Kipre, O'Dowda; Rinomhota, Sawyers, Wintle; Kaba, Etete.

Subs: Alnwick, Simpson, Ralls, Ojo, Philogene, Robinson, Wickham.

Romeo with a left-footed cross and Kaba chests down well before trying to lay off Wintle. But it's cut out.

Positive start from Cardiff. Sanderson belts the ball out to safety again.

Closing down better in these first couple of minutes than we did the entire 1st half on Saturday

O'Dowda witha strong tackle on Bacuna as he looked to break down the right. As positive a start as City could have hoped for so far.

hell it was down as a 8pm kick off

hell it was down as a 8pm kick off

Said 7:45 on the Sky Sports Scores app

Fridays kick off is 8pm

Free-kick to Cardiff. Kaba, Etete, Kipre and McGuinness look imposing in the box for Cardiff.

free kick to city

Kipre heads totally wide

A lot of long of balls up to Kaba and Etete so far.

Mejbri's corner is overhit and Sawyers lets it run out for a goal kick to the Bluebirds.