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Cardiff are without injured pair Andrew Taylor and Jordon Mutch. Mutch failed a fitness test.
Fraizer Campbell is fit
Manager Ole Gunnar Solskjaer must decide whether to give first starts to new signings Magnus Wolff Eikrem and Mats Moller Daehli.




Ole has a Taylor out injured and Campbell/Kimbo having late fitness tests.

Craig Bellamy is pushing for a starting place.

Jordan Mutch will hopefully be fit to be in the match day squad

CARDIFF City left-back Andrew Taylor has had a calf operation and is ruled out for almost a month.

Taylor has had surgery on the calf problem which has troubled him at times this season and Bluebirds manager Ole Gunnar Solskjaer says: “He has had an operation and will be out for a month.
“It will be two or three weeks before he can start training again.”

' MANCHESTER CITY '


Manchester City's Vincent Kompany, Yaya Toure and David Silva are fit to face Cardiff despite missing the midweek FA Cup victory against Blackburn.

Sergio Aguero scored on his return from a calf injury in that tie, but fellow forward Stevan Jovetic remains absent.



Manchester City are on course for an unprecedented quadruple after thrashing Blackburn Rover 5 nil in midweek.
Manchester City have averaged 4 goals a game this season and entertain struggling Cardiff City this season.

Alvaro Negredo and Edin Dzeko both scored twice at the Etihad Stadium v Blackburn, while Sergio Aguero marked his return from injury with a goal within a minute of coming on as a second-half substitute.
Manuel Pellegrini's side have now scored 99 goals in their 33 matches in all competitions this term.



Manchester City v Cardiff City



Possible Man City side:-


Possible Cardiff side:-


Last 5 games:-
24 Mar 1984---Manchester City 2-1 Cardiff City---League Division Two
22 Sep 1984---Cardiff City 0-3 Manchester City---League Division Two
30 Mar 1985---Manchester City 2-2 Cardiff City---League Division Two
29 Jan 1994---Cardiff City 1-0 Manchester City---FA Cup
25 Aug 2013---Cardiff City 3-2 Manchester City---Premier League

Fact:-
Cardiff City have won the last two meetings between the two sides.

Prediction:-
I'm going for a shock result....

Manchester City 0-1 Cardiff City

Toure has around 60% chance of playing. He has a knock. They might not risk him getting further injury against us.

Toure has around 60% chance of playing. He has a knock. They might not risk him getting further injury against us.

I just go on teams they've played in previous games

Toure has around 60% chance of playing. He has a knock. They might not risk him getting further injury against us.

I just go on teams they've played in previous games

Wasn't criticising you fella. Just making others who may come into the thread aware of his status if they didn't know. Good thread to be honest.

Toure has around 60% chance of playing. He has a knock. They might not risk him getting further injury against us.

I just go on teams they've played in previous games

Wasn't criticising you fella. Just making others who may come into the thread aware of his status if they didn't know. Good thread to be honest.

I didn't mean what I said in that way pal, sorry. Cheers for the info. Hopefully they play a strong'ish team tonight and pick up a knock or two.

cardiff team is spot on exactly who i would start you know tho it never goes like that whitts will be in there somewere lol

cardiff team is spot on exactly who i would start you know tho it never goes like that whitts will be in there somewere lol

actually tuner for hudson

My head says 3-0 to Manchester City and my heart says 1-0 to us.

Hopefully we'll pull of a shock

The midfield looks good - I'd like to see Mutch and Eikrem in the middle with Medel behind them. And two natural wingers in Bellers and Noone.

We might as well set up to attack them - it won't do us any good to weather the storm and sit back. I'd rather lose 3-2 than 2-0...

The midfield looks good - I'd like to see Mutch and Eikrem in the middle with Medel behind them. And two natural wingers in Bellers and Noone.

We might as well set up to attack them - it won't do us any good to weather the storm and sit back. I'd rather lose 3-2 than 2-0...

We would get absolutely raped if we tried to attack them, it would be suicide.

The midfield looks good - I'd like to see Mutch and Eikrem in the middle with Medel behind them. And two natural wingers in Bellers and Noone.

We might as well set up to attack them - it won't do us any good to weather the storm and sit back. I'd rather lose 3-2 than 2-0...

We would get absolutely raped if we tried to attack them, it would be suicide.

I think we'll be on a hiding to nothing if we try and keep an attacking team out for too long though - this season has proved that, even with lesser teams playing us who haven't scored in hours of football. Invite them to attack you and eventually they'll score...

IF Daehli is match fit, then I would like to see him start as he would be relatively unknown by Man City and a player that they won't have that much of a dossier on, and as a youngster I would hope that OGS will have instilled a 'no fear' attitude in him.

Don't be afraid to make a mistake, if you can create more chances than mistakes.

The only problem is if he plays left midfield then it would leave two very young players down that left side.

Accommodate him elsewhere and he potentially could create chances for us to score.

Only problem is that Man City are also likely to score, having failed to score only twice this season, both away from home and the last time that happened was the 0-1 defeat to Sunderland, where Man City had 24 shots on goal, but only 4 on target.

So we need very defence minded midfield players, with a few very creative outlets for breakaways, to create space and give breathing time for what is likely to be an overworked 8-9 man defence system for large parts of the game.

We need experience ( Bellamy ), speed and creativity and no fear.

Probably have Cowie in for Eikrem for the defensive element.

Yaya and Silva are fit, while they'll make a last minute decision on Aguero.

Pellegrini's words today.


Personally, I can't see Aguero starting.

Palarse were unlucky not to get a point there, we've beat em once, never say die n that. Looking forward to seeing what eikrem can do

Bring Mats Møller Dæhli off the bench second half

Saturday, January 18, 2014
Manchester City v Cardiff City
Etihad Stadium
Kick-off: 15.00 GMT.
TV: Highlights, BBC ONE Match of the Day.
Manchester City (Possible, 4-2-31): Hart; Zabaleta, Kompany, Demichelis, Kolarov; Touré, Fernandinho; Milner, Silva, Dzeko; Agüero.
Out: Jovetic, Rodwell (both hamstring), Nasri (knee).
Cardiff City (Possible, 4-2-3-1): Marshall; Théopihile-Catherine, Caulker, Hudson, John; Medel, Whittingham; None, Kim, Odemwingie; Campbell.
Out: Taylor (ankle), Mutch (hamstring).
Referee: Neil Swarbrick. Matches: 10, R0 Y32.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/footba ... eview.html

Manchester City v Cardiff City preview: Team strengths, tactics and stats -

http://www.independent.co.uk/sport/foot ... 68168.html

CARDIFF City left-back Andrew Taylor has had a calf operation and is ruled out for almost a month.

Taylor has had surgery on the calf problem which has troubled him at times this season and Bluebirds manager Ole Gunnar Solskjaer says: “He has had an operation and will be out for a month.
“It will be two or three weeks before he can start training again.”

http://www.itv.com/news/granada/update/ ... s-weekend/?

XI: Marshall; McNaughton, Caulker (C), Turner, Theophile-Catherine; Whittingham, Medel, Gunnarsson, Mutch, Noone; Campbell.

bench: Lewis; Hudson, Odemwingie, Kim, Eikrem, Bellamy, John.

No matts then

No matts then

Possibly ktc at left back

No matts then

Not fit enough yet. His season in Norway finished around November.

No Daehli on the bench, I'm suprised at that.

No Daehli on the bench, I'm suprised at that.

Again, not fit enough yet. His season in Norway finished around November.

Looks like 4-5-1/4-3-3 from the line up with Whitts/Medel/Gunnarson in the middle and Mutch/Campbell/Noone ahead.

Suprised to see Whittingham still in the starting elevan. Hopefully he repays OGS with a bit more effort. Even more surprised that Odemwhinge even made it onto the bench (ahead of Cornelius). I guess OGS is thinking Campbell must work his socks off for 75 minutes and then Odemwhinge comes on for a like to like change (in the hope that he stays onside and gives it his all)
Lets hope they play out of their skins!
Come on bluebirds.

35 seconds in and they had a shot on target.

I's gonna be a long game.

Talk sport saying they should have had a penalty

Theres 1. Nothing special either.