MATCH THREAD: “ ROTHERHAM v CARDIFF CITY “ MATCH THREAD

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ROTHERHAM UNITED v CARDIFF CITY
Saturday 4th May, 12.30pm
Sky Bet Championship
AESSEAL New York Stadium 






Rotherham Away Saturday 12:30pm

Cardiff City Fans can Pay on the day


Cardiff City have 2,000 Tickets:






UPDATED TEAM TEAM NEWS:

Erol Bulut:

“For the last game against Rotherham, still we have half the team are not with us because of injury,” Erol began. “Callum O’Dowda will be with us, it looks like this, but he will not be available from the starting XI.

“We will try to use him, but I don’t want to use players that just came back from injuries to have a problem again. In pre-season, everybody has to be fully fit and be back. We cannot take risks that Cardiff City have injured players.”





Erol Bulut will be putting up to 6 Under 21 players
in to the match day squad.




Erol Bulut has confirmed Yakou Meite has suffered a grade two tear on his calf and will be out for the remainder of the season.


Aaron Ramsey to miss rest of season through injury. Started seven games on his Cardiff return, finished just one of those.



Rubin Colwill is 50-50

Adding to the club's injury woes are player of the season Perry Ng is doubtful.

TEAM NEWS:

EROL BULUT:


“We have a number of players out injured for the last game .”:




“Alnwick will miss the final game.”



“Callum O'Dowda is out .”

“Kion Etete is out”

“Mark McGuinness is out .”

“Aaron Ramsey is out .”




The Opposition's Manager

Steve Evans was re-appointed Rotherham manager for a second spell in April.

Until then, he had been Stevenage manager since March 2022.

In his first spell as Rotherham manager, between 2012 and 2015, he guided them to promotion from both League Two and League One.

He has also had spells in charge of Leeds, Crawley, Peterborough, Gillingham, Mansfield and Boston.

Opposition Dangerous Players

We obviously know Jordan Hugill from his short loan with us. He has three league goals this season.

Another ex-City player, Lee Peltier, is likely to play. Dillon Phillips could start in goal for them.

Andy Rinomhota is ineligible to play, as he’s on loan from us.

Head To Head 

We won 2-0 at home to Rotherham in September.

We are unbeaten in our last five against them, winning four.

Team News - Predicted Line-Ups

Rotherham United: Phillips, Revan, Peltier, Humphreys, Bramall, Rathbone, Cafu, Appiah, Odoffin, Eaves, Hugill

Cardiff City: Horvath, Romeo, Goutas, Phillips, Tanner, Siopis, Ralls, Turnbull, Bowler, Ashford, Meite

Last Game

In the penultimate weekend, we lost at home to Middlesbrough.

Rotherham lost at Bristol City.

Match Odds

Rotherham United - 11/4
Cardiff City - Evens
Draw - 12/5

Predictions

Post your predictions below 

[Bebbsyboy]

Erol Bulut has confirmed Yakou Meite has suffered a grade two tear on his calf and will be out for the remainder of the season.

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“ CARDIFF CITY CHAMPIONSHIP FIXTURES 2023-24 “





Erol Bulut New Manager 4th June 2023:




06/08/2023 Leeds United 2 Cardiff City 2 Crowd 36,368 Away Support ( 2,026 )

12/08/2023 Cardiff City 1 Queens Park Rangers 2 Crowd 21,230 Away Support 1,068

19/08/2023 Leicester City 2 Cardiff City 1 Crowd : 31,595. Away Support 2,100


26/08/2023 Cardiff City 2 Sheffield Wednesday 1 Crowd 21,058 Away Support 2,823

02/09/2023 Ipswich Town 3 Cardiff City 2 Crowd 28,011 Away Support 951

16/09/2023 Cardiff City 2 Swansea City 0 Crowd 28,648 Away Support ( 2,093 )


19/09/2023 Cardiff City 3 Coventry City 2 Crowd 18,297 includes 1,839 away fans.

24/09/2023 Sunderland 0 Cardiff City 1 Crowd 41,581 Away Support (332 )

30/09/2023 Cardiff City 2 Rotherham United 0 Crowd 20,136 Away Support (343)




03/10/2023 Middlesbrough 2 Cardiff City 0 Crowd 24,276 Away Support ( 283)

07/10/2023 Cardiff City 1 Watford 1 Crowd 19,804 Away Support 1,550


21/10/2023 Blackburn Rovers 1 Cardiff City 0 Crowd Away (1,063)

24/10/2023 Huddersfield Town 0 Cardiff City 4 Crowd 16,780 Away Support ( 338 )



28/10/2023 Cardiff City 2 Bristol City 0 Crowd 25,803 Away Support (3,214 )




04/11/2023 Stoke City 0 Cardiff City 0 Crowd 23,089 Away Support 1,723

11/11/2023 Cardiff City 2 Norwich City 3 Crowd 21,271 Away Support 860






25/11/2023 Preston North End 1 Cardiff City 2 Crowd 14,593 (789 Cardiff City fans)


28/11/2023 Cardiff City 0 West Bromwich Albion 1 Crowd 18,248 ( Away Support 1,049 )


02/12/2023 Southampton 2 Cardiff City 0 Crowd : 28,659 Away Support ( Away Support )

09/12/2023 Cardiff City 1 Millwall 0 Crowd 19,421 Away Support ( 835 )

13/12/2023 Cardiff City 0 Birmingham City 1 Crowd 17,669 Away Support ( 1,098 )



16/12/2023 Hull City 3 Cardiff City 0 Crowd 20,352 Away Support ( 380 )

23/12/2023 Sheffield Wednesday 1 Cardiff City 2 Crowd 26,009 Away Support ( 854 )

26/12/2023 Cardiff City 2 Plymouth Argyle 2 Crowd 23,983 Away Support ( 2,690 )


29/12/2023 Cardiff City 0 Leicester City 2Crowd 24,650 Away Support (3,211 )



01/01/2024 Queens Park Rangers 1 Cardiff City 2 Crowd 16,849 Away Support ( 1,305)


6th Jan FA CUP 3rd Sheffield Wednesday 4 Cardiff City 0 Crowd 10,955 Away Support (411)

13/01/2024 Cardiff City 0 Leeds United 3 Crowd 25,991 Away Support 3,236


20/01/2024 Plymouth Argyle 3 Cardiff City 1 Crowd 16,471 Away Support 1,733




03/02/2024 Watford 0 Cardiff City 1 Crowd 19,734 Away Support 2,104

10/02/2024 Cardiff City 0 Preston 2 Crowd 18,763. Away Support 562

13/02/2024 West Bromwich Albion 2 Cardiff City 0 Crowd 23,541 Away Support 1,629

17/02/2024 Norwich City 4 Cardiff City 1 Crowd Away Support 372

20/02/2024 Cardiff City 0 Blackburn 0 Crowd 17,131 Away Support 369


24/02/2024 Cardiff City 2 Stoke City 1 Crowd 18,976 Away Support 1,320



02/03/2024 Bristol City 0 Cardiff City 1 Crowd 24,035 Away Support 2,300

06/03/2024 Cardiff City 1 Huddersfield Town 0 Crowd 17,243 Away Support 320

09/03/2024 Cardiff City 2 Ipswich Town 1 Crowd 22,724 Away Support 3,213

16/03/2024 Swansea City 2 Cardiff City 0 Crowd 20,005 Away Support 1,700

29/03/2024 Cardiff City 0 Sunderland 2 Crowd 22,142 Away Support 2,180



01/04/2024 Coventry City 1 Cardiff City 2 Crowd 28,529 Away Support 1,680



06/04/2024 Cardiff City 1 Hull City 3 Crowd 20,688 Away Support 885



10/04/2024 19:45 Birmingham City 0 Cardiff City 1 Crowd 20,854 Away Support 590


13/04/2024 Millwall 3 Cardiff City 1 Crowd 18,838 Away Support. 1,390




20/04/2024 Cardiff City 2 Southampton 1 Crowd 22,372 Away Support 3,193




27/04/2024 Cardiff City 1 Middlesbrough 4 Crowd 22,999 Away Support 1,603



04/05/2024 12:30 Rotherham United v Cardiff City Crowd Away Support

[Forever Blue]

Erol Bulut will be putting up to 6 Under 21 players
in to the match day squad.




Erol Bulut has confirmed Yakou Meite has suffered a grade two tear on his calf and will be out for the remainder of the season.


Aaron Ramsey to miss rest of season through injury. Started seven games on his Cardiff return, finished just one of those.



Rubin Colwill is 50-50

Adding to the club's injury woes are player of the season Perry Ng is doubtful.

TEAM NEWS:

EROL BULUT:


“We have a number of players out injured for the last game .”:




“Alnwick will miss the final game.”



“Callum O'Dowda is out .”

“Kion Etete is out”

“Mark McGuinness is out .”

“Aaron Ramsey is out .”

[montyblue]

Full allocation is 2,500 lets hope we at least take the 2,000 on the last game of the season
early start but early finish for home.

[TopCat CCFC]

Rotherham United awaiting 'brutally honest' assessment from Steve Evans -

STEVE EVANS says the hard work starts now for Rotherham United as he strives to plot a route back to Championship football for the Millers.

Evans said he was preparing a document for chairman Tony Stewart on the best way forward for the club after a forgettable campaign.

"This is one of the biggest challenges I have taken on, but I am confident that we can bounce back next season,” said Evans.

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Updated:

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Ref Watch – Millers v Bluebirds -

Rotherham United’s last game of the season sees Cardiff City travel to the New York Stadium when the referee will be Andy Davies from Hampshire.

This will be the third time the Millers and Andy have met this season the first being in October at Hillsborough when former Miller Michael Smith scored two to give the hosts all three points. The beginning of December also saw Andy in charge of an away game involving Rotherham in a goalless draw at St Andrew’s against Birmingham City.

He was twice in the middle for Millers games last season the last being in October at the Coventry Arena when the Millers twice went in front thanks to goals from Cohen Bramall and Conor Washington but were pegged back both times ending up with a point. Earlier that month he also had the whistle for our New York Stadium game which saw Wigan get a two-nil win with Millers fans not shy in coming forward to show their wrath against the ref who made some, shall we say, peculiar decisions.

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Updated:

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OPPOSITION FOCUS | SEASON SO FAR -
It’s been a disappointing season for the Millers, who have been relegated to Sky Bet League One.

The side have amassed just 24 points and are set to finish the campaign at the foot of the table.

Rotherham are winless in their last five fixtures, having fallen to a 2–0 defeat away to Bristol City last time out.

The Millers’ away form has largely contributed to their relegation, recording just four points on their travels this season.

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With the side struggling in the second tier this term, it’s been a busy season for goalkeeper Viktor Johansson.

The 25-year-old joined the club in 2020 from Leicester City and has since become an important part in the Millers’ squad.

A Swedish international, Johansson has a save percentage of 69% this season.

In his 44 starts between the sticks, he had made a total of 177 saves, an average of 4.02 per match.

The Bluebirds welcomed the Millers to Cardiff City Stadium back in September in search of a fourth consecutive victory.

City achieved just that, building on wins over Swansea City, Coventry City and Sunderland.

The key moment came with 56 minutes on the clock, with Karlan Grant showing his crossing ability, delivering a perfect ball for Kion Etete to head home.

City’s striker almost bagged another late-on, as he forced a save from Johansson, but the rebound fell to Perry Ng, who finished to secure all three points for the Bluebirds.

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The Millers head into Saturday's fixture without a win in their last five fixtures and already relegated.

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Rotherham Away Saturday 12:30pm

Cardiff City Fans can Pay on the day

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Erol Bulut:


“For the last game against Rotherham, still we have half the team are not with us because of injury,” Erol began. “Callum O’Dowda will be with us, it looks like this, but he will not be available from the starting XI.

“We will try to use him, but I don’t want to use players that just came back from injuries to have a problem again. In pre-season, everybody has to be fully fit and be back. We cannot take risks that Cardiff City have injured players.”

[TopCat CCFC]

Rotherham United come into this clash with Cardiff City having been relegated for weeks now and they have a big summer ahead as they look to bounce back with an immediate promotion from League One next season.

The Millers have brought back Steve Evans from Stevenage to guide them into next term and he is a manager who knows what it takes to get out of the third tier.

It has been a dismal campaign for the South Yorkshire outfit and everyone associated with the club will be eager to see the back of it as they look to the future.

Cardiff City, on the other hand, haven’t had a bad year under Erol Bulut and need to sort out his future over the coming weeks. The Turkish boss joined them last summer and has made a positive impression.

The Welsh side are sat in 12th place in the table and could finish as high as 9th if they pick up three points at the New York Stadium and the likes of Coventry City, Preston North End and Bristol City drop points around them.

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Match Odds


Rotherham v Cardiff City


Rotherham United - 11/4

Cardiff City - Evens

Draw - 12/5

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CCFC:

[Bluebird1977]

Playing players who won't be here next season just baffles me. It's a nothing game really although we want to win and they are down anyway I just don't see the point in them playing tbh

[jimmy_rat]

Some great fancy dress here. Brilliant atmosphere amongst our lot. Not here you're missing out!

[stentona]

Any umbrellas?

[Underhill1927]

Great atmosphere on the stream fair play. Decent start trying to be more attacking too.

[Forever Blue]

That’s embarrassing


- Goal. The hosts lead through Hugill. (1-0)

[EastleighBlue]

Poor goal to concede but what we deserve. Playing like we are on the beach as expected

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1-0

[cardiffboy1995]

Poor goal to concede. Could see the ball in behind 5 seconds before it was played for f**k sake.

Don’t care there’s nothing to play for, get the 3 points ffs!

[Underhill1927]

Guaranteed that Hugill would score haha. I bet both teams to score so nice 1-5 win now please

[stentona]

Poor goal to concede. Could see the ball in behind 5 seconds before it was played for f**k sake.

Don’t care there’s nothing to play for, get the 3 points ffs!

Balut's team selection leaves a lot to be desired. No creativity in midfield and persists in playing Romeo (shite) and Tanner out of position.
Perfect opportunity to put more youngsters in and STILL plays a defensive setup.
Sorry he can go as far as I'm concerned. I'd rather the devil I don't know thanks.

[Underhill1927]

Poor goal to concede. Could see the ball in behind 5 seconds before it was played for f**k sake.

Don’t care there’s nothing to play for, get the 3 points ffs!

Balut's team selection leaves a lot to be desired. No creativity in midfield and persists in playing Romeo (shite) and Tanner out of position.
Perfect opportunity to put more youngsters in and STILL plays a defensive setup.
Sorry he can go as far as I'm concerned. I'd rather the devil I don't know thanks.

What changes would you make?

Tanner has started really well at left back

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38 - BIG NAT HEADS IN THE LEVELLER!! (1-1)

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2-1 Damm