' CARDIFF CITY INSIST DAVID MARSHALL '

Monday 1st December 2014

Cardiff City insist David Marshall NOT facing operation amid reports captain could face lengthy lay-off

Cardiff City have moved to allay fears captain and goalkeeper David Marshall is in need of a hernia operation

Cardiff City insist goalkeeper David Marshall will be at the forefront of their promotion push this season despite reports he is facing surgery.

It has been reported Marshall is in need of a hernia operation but manager Russell Slade and his medical team insist there are no major injury concerns around the Scot.

A club spokesman said: “There is a niggle in his groin and that is being monitored, but it is of no great concern at this time.

“There is no suggestion it is a hernia problem.”

It has been suggested Marshall ‘could miss a huge chunk of Cardiff’s season’, but that seems to be way off target.

If the niggle does need treatment it is likely that will wait until the end of this season.

Skipper Marshall has made 218 first team appearances for the Bluebirds since signing from Norwich in 2009 and has played in every one of Cardiff’s Championship matches this season.

“David is an outstanding goalkeeper,” said Slade. “There is no doubt about that.

“He showed true quality against Watford. The game had barely started and he made two excellent saves.

“Against Reading he would have been disappointed with the goal they scored. It was a bit of a soft goal.

“But you would rather him make the mistake, or slight error in a game when you are 2-0 up.

“Making the saves in a game which is tight, like our match at Watford, when it is 0-0, really shows the quality goalkeeper he is.”

So the Super Soaraway Sun gets it wrong again. Why anyone still buys that wankrag of a paper is beyond me.

Worries about an injury to the influential David Marshall, along with the hamstring injury to Anthony Pilkington, marred the away win at Watford on Saturday and left us with some concerns.

Reports had said that Marshall could be facing surgery on a hernia problem!

That was very alarming but it was also thought that this could mean he would 'miss a huge chunk of the season' as a result, which would have been of major concern to us as Cardiff have become so reliant on the Scottish international.

Fortunately a club spokesman has played this down.

'There is a niggle in his groin and that is being monitored, but it is of no great concern at this time.

'There is no suggestion it is a hernia problem.'

Marshall's importance was no less evident than the win at Watford on Saturday when he made a string of impressive second half saves to earn us our first away win in the Championship after Adam Le Fondre's first half goal.

In the wake of that win Russell Slade spoke glowingly of him, he knows as well as Marshall and we do that he made a mistake in the win over Reading recently but Slade's right in saying you would sooner that mistake came in a game that you're winning 2-0 as opposed to a tight game against Watford.

If surgery is needed our captain is likely to postpone this until the end of the season.

One that isn't so fortune though is Pilkington as his hamstring injury will not only see him miss the game with Rotherham on Saturday it'll keep him out for at least three weeks so he'll be looking at a return in the New Year it seems?

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There was only one person who made a mistake, or several against Watford and his second name was Slade!