MATCH THREAD: “ NORWICH CITY v CARDIFF CITY " MATCH THREAD

Ralls lays the ball off to Wickham, who belts a volley - but it's deflected wide.

Cardiff playing well

Corner finds O'Dowda at the far post - another shot blocked! Kipre then whips in a nice cross and it's nodded away. Philogene is then fouled on the far side. Free-kick to the visitors.

City have Norwich on the ropes a little, here.

Free-kick is half-cleared to Philogene on the edge of the area. He takes it down nicely and shifts it on to his left, but another shot over the bar from the Villa loanee.

Wickham with another solid flick-on to Romeo, who bursts down the right before finding a neat ball inside to Philogene. He dribbles past his man, but his cross is blocked.

Awful from Norwich. A stray pass from Aarons invites Romeo to intercept. He bursts upfield and tries to curl one in. But it's saved. The wise option was to feed Wickham, who was free in the box.

Some patient build-up play from Norwich and Sara has a pop from 25 yards. It starts wide and ends up even wider.

Promising start and a couple of other results so far are going our way

Ralls feeds Wickham on the break and the striker looks to return the favour, but his cross is cut out.

Marquinhos then tries a cross at the other end for the Canaries, but Allsop gathers comfortably.

Marquinhos unleashes an effort from 25 yards. Doesn't catch it - dribbles wide of Allsop's left-hand post.

Norwich just edged back into this. Stopping Cardiff's flow. Still no real chances for the hosts, though.

Marquinhos again with the effort. It's deflected straight into Allsop's arms.

Aarons is found on the right, but his shot is dlected off O'Dowda and out for a throw.

Sara with a dangers shot from 20 yards. Looks bound for the top corner as Allsop dives, but McGuinness puts a brave head on it.

GOAL! Norwich City 1-0 Cardiff City (Sara 33)
Goal. Sara drives in from 20 yards out.

That was coming.

2nil

2-0 too easy game over

Same old story Cardiff looked good for 20mins, but not actually creating anything, then bang

So bloody predictable.

So bloody predictable.

At this moment, for me nothing has changed, thats how i feel.

Cardiff not even in the game at the moment. Norwich pinging it around them like they aren't even there in the middle of the park.

What has gone on?

Squads not good enough
The better teams in the league will pretty much do what Norwich are doing now , easily enough

Wickham with a clever pass over the top to Romeo, but his cross is poor and cleared. About the only go-forward Cardiff have had for 20 minutes. They need half-time.

Nunez blazes a shot over the bar, but it's deflected, it'll be a corner.

HALF-TIME! Norwich City 2-0 Cardiff City
That's the end of the first half. Not an ideal one for Cardiff, that's for sure.

Cardiff look in trouble

HT very disappointing.

Squads not good enough
The better teams in the league will pretty much do what Norwich are doing now , easily enough

That's exactly how I see it we are bottom end fodder for the top teams in most games tbh but that's down to the squad we got and budget. Although i was not expecting anything at Norwich in truth and was praying for a draw

Preston need to get a goal vs Wigan for us now.

Disappointing after a strong opening 15mins, HT couldn't come quick enough. Wigan winning so as it stands so have narrowed the gap to 1 point between us. Come on City.

Norwich spent 14.4m this year... City 650k. There's the answer