' MATCH THREAD CARDIFF CITY v N FOREST ' MATCH DAY THREAD '

Cardiff v Nottingham Forest preview

Sky Sports

29/12/15

Kelvin Wilson: Returns for Nottingham Forest


Cardiff have no new injury issues as they look to avoid a third straight Sky Bet Championship defeat over the festive period.

Manager Russell Slade could make a couple of changes for the meeting with Nottingham Forest but he remains without injured defender Sean Morrison (knee).

Craig Noone could have put himself in the frame for a recall after his goal from the bench at MK Dons while Fabio, Peter Whittingham, Joe Mason, Kagisho Dikgacoi and Stuart O'Keefe are also options for Slade.

Russell Slade aiming for 'important points'

Vital Football

Tuesday, 29th December 2015



Russell Slade looking to end 2015 with a victory.

The team have slipped down to 10th in the table but a win tonight would see a leap of at least two places and get the side within one point of 6th place.

Russell Slade, speaking ahead of the game, said
“We said in the changing room after the MK Dons game that we’ve only got to wait a few days to respond.

“Forest is another important game for us. We put a lot of importance in the games running to the end of the year and there are three more points up for grabs before we go into January. Three more important points for us. Huge in fact.

“We need to get that four point gap back and get it back quickly. We need to address that very quickly at this stage of the season.

“It’s a critical time, I’m not hiding under a rock. This time of year it’s important to be right in there and we do not want to be slipping away from things. Forest is very much the next step to us doing that."

http://youtu.be/5D4fUqrY35Q

Cardiff City 2 Notts Forest 0

Forest sold over 850 tickets for tonight's game

Cardiff City Team : Marshall; Peltier, Connolly, Manga, Fabio, Noone, Gunnarsson, Ralls, Pilkington, Jones, Watt.

Macheda back among the subs but Dikgachoi not involved

Cardiff City Team : Marshall; Peltier, Connolly, Manga, Fabio, Noone, Gunnarsson, Ralls, Pilkington, Jones, Watt.

Our best 11 playing 442 IMO

What's wrong with Dikgacoi? Should at least be on the bench.

Great run by Forest and a hell of a shot one nil Forest

1-1

Nice stats so far! Let's hope it's not a repeat of the last game though!!!

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Nice stats so far! Let's hope it's not a repeat of the last game though!!!

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Who scored?

Nice stats so far! Let's hope it's not a repeat of the last game though!!!

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Who scored?

Gunnar

Nice stats so far! Let's hope it's not a repeat of the last game though!!!

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Who scored?

Gunnerson

Nice stats so far! Let's hope it's not a repeat of the last game though!!!

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Who scored?

Gunnar

Thanks

Ipswitch winning

Manga and Fabio showing great touches, just not happening for jones cos we think we are arsenal

Lots of shots and no end product.

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FULL TIME: CARDIFF CITY 1-1 NOTTINGHAM FOREST

Scorers: O.Burke ‘9, Gunnarsson ‘13
Attendance: 15,461

Cardiff City: Marshall, Peltier, Fabio, Manga, Connolly, Gunnarsson (Whittingham ’69), Ralls, Pilkington, Noone (Macheda ’81), Jones (Ameobi ’65), Watt.
Subs not used: Moore, Malone, O’Keefe, Mason.

Nottingham Forest: de Vries, Lichaj, Mills, Hobbs, Mancienne, Ward, Trotter, Williams (Osborn ’71), Tesche, O. Burke (Lansbury ’85), Blackstock (Oliveira ’80).
Subs not used: Evtimov, Mendes, C. Burke, O’Grady.