MATCH THREAD ' CARDIFF CITY v BLACKBURN ' MATCH THREAD

CARDIFF CITY v BLACKBURN
Championship
Tuesday 17th February, 7.45pm.
Cardiff City Stadium

CARDIFF TEAM Marshall, Peltier, Ecuele Manga, Morrison, Malone, Whittingham, Gunnarsson, Noone, Kennedy, Jones, Doyle

Connolly, Adeyemi, Ralls, O’Keefe, Revell, Moore and Harris.


Pay on the Night

Cardiff could get their lowest crowd of the season,plus only a couple of hundred Blackburn fans expected.

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' Injury News '

Russell Slade
We have one or two doubts.

A couple of players picked up minor injuries in training over the last few days, but overall we are okay.

Federico Macheda is making progress, while there is a slight injury problem over Fabio.

Fabio wins a header for Cardiff City
He picked up a calf injury in training. We may have to have go to the wire with that one.

There is nothing serious apart from long-term injuries. We trained Saturday and Sunday.


It will be two weeks before Anthony Pilkinghton starts training again

Slade set to change the starting line up yet again.

Cardiff City go in to this game after only 1 win from their last 11 games and Russell Slade is desperate for a win after his side were continually booed during their last home game to Brighton.

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Latest News

' CARDIFF CITY '


Cardiff City's last five Championship matches, Draw,Draw,Loss,Loss and Loss.

' BLACKBURN '
Blackburn have failed to win their last 8 away matches in Championship.

Possible Lineups

Cardiff City

1 Marshall
2 Peltier
5 Manga
36 Morrison
4 Malone
11 Noone
22 O'Keefe
17 Gunnarsson
7 Whittingham
15 McAleny
9 Jones


Blackburn

30 Steele
6 Lowe
5 Hanley G
4 Kilgallon
14 Marcus Olsson
10 Cairney
25 Spearing
29 Evans
32 Conway
11 Rhodes
9 Brown C


Preview

Form - Last 5 Games

Cardiff

Tue 20/01/15 CHA Middlesbrough 2 - 1 Cardiff City
Sat 24/01/15 FAC Cardiff City 1 - 2 Reading
Sat 31/01/15 CHA Cardiff City 0 - 2 Derby County
Sat 07/02/15 CHA Sheff Wed 1 - 1 Cardiff City
Tue 10/02/15 CHA Cardiff City 0 - 0 Brighton

Blackburn

Sat 24/01/15 FAC Blackburn Rovers 3 - 1 Swansea City
Tue 27/01/15 CHA Derby County 2 - 0 Blackburn Rovers
Sat 31/01/15 CHA Blackburn Rovers 2 - 1 Fulham
Sat 07/02/15 CHA Watford 1 - 0 Blackburn Rovers
Tue 10/02/15 CHA Blackburn Rovers 2 - 1 Rotherham United

The Stats

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Last 5 meetings

2014/2015 Fri 08 Aug Blackburn R. 1 - 1 Cardiff City Championship
2012/2013 Mon 01 Apr Cardiff City 3 - 0 Blackburn R. Championship
2012/2013 Fri 07 Dec Blackburn R. 1 - 4 Cardiff City Championship
2011/2012 Tue 29 Nov Cardiff City 2 - 0 Blackburn R. League Cup
2004/2005 Wed 19 Jan Blackburn R. 3 - 2 Cardiff City F.A. Cup

Match Odds

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Cardiff 21/10
Draw 7/5
Blackburn 11/5

Tickets

Tickets can be purchased in person at the ticket office situated in the Grandstand, next to corporate entrance 2.

Alternatively you can call the Stadium Ticket Office on 0845 345 1400, which is open from 9am to 5:30pm Monday to Friday and 9am to 3pm on non match-day Saturdays.

The easiest way is to book online.
https://www.eticketing.co.uk/cardiffcity/default.aspx


Blackburn History

Blackburn Rovers Football Club is an English professional association football club based in the town of Blackburn, Lancashire. The team competes in the Football League Championship from the 2012–13 season. They were relegated from the Premier League, the top tier of English football, at the end of the 2011–12 season. The club are currently managed by Gary Bowyer after previous manager Michael Appleton was dismissed on 19 March 2013. Appleton was the third manager to have lost his job in 6 months after Steve Kean and Henning Berg.

The club was established in 1875, becoming a founding member of The Football League in 1888. It is one of only three clubs to have been both a founder member of the Football League and the Premier League (the others being Aston Villa and Everton). In 1890 Rovers moved to its permanent home at Ewood Park. Prior to the formation of the Premier League in 1992, most of the club's successes were before 1930, when it had gained league and FA Cup trophies on several occasions. Relegation in 1965–66 was followed by 26 successive seasons of football outside the top flight.

In 1992, Blackburn gained promotion to the new Premier League a year after being taken over by local steel baron Jack Walker, who installed Kenny Dalglish as manager. In 1995, Blackburn became Premier League champions, having spent millions of pounds on players like Alan Shearer and Chris Sutton. However, the title-winning team was quickly split up and, in the 1998–99 season, the club was relegated. It was promoted back to the Premier League two years later, in the 2000–01 season, just after Walker's death. During this time it has qualified for the UEFA Cup four times: once as League Cup winners, twice as the Premier League's sixth-placed team and once via the Intertoto Cup. The 2009–10 season marked the club's 72nd non-consecutive year in the top flight. Blackburn are currently one of only five clubs to have won the Premier League, along with Arsenal, Chelsea, Manchester United, and Manchester City.

The club's motto is "Arte et Labore", which the club translates as "By Skill and Hard Work" in Latin.

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3-1 City

Cardiff City 1 Blackburn 1

Can't see us getting anything from this to be honest

Cardiff 1-3 blackburn

Kenwyne with a late consolation goal

City 1 (Doyle) Blackburn 5 (Rhodes 2 Gestade Conway 2)

0-2

0-3 Blackburn. Unless we get a corner or free kick and we might get a consolation goal.

Being as it's home advantage, I'm going for 3-0

To Blackburn!

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0-2 Blackburn.

Bloobirds 2 - 2 Blackburn (jone doyle - rudy rhodes)

Att 12,455 but announced @ 19,027

3-1 City

Bloody 'ell Rydog!
There's being supportive of your mate & then there's being stuck in La La Land!
I hope you come on here on Tuesday night & prove me wrong though mate!!

Slade's last game in charge. Blackburn are better than Brighton and Cardiff are a very poor team under Slade. It's over for him, sacked Wednesday morn

3-1 City

Bloody 'ell Rydog!
There's being supportive of your mate & then there's being stuck in La La Land!
I hope you come on here on Tuesday night & prove me wrong though mate!!

0-3 Rovers

Blackburn have not won an away match since October, so perhaps all is not yet lost.
1-1 draw for me

CARDIFF CITY PREVIOUS 5 RESULTS

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Championship - Cardiff 0-0 Brighton Tue 10 Feb
Championship - Sheff Wed 1-1 Cardiff Sat 7 Feb
Championship - Cardiff 0-2 Derby Sat 31 Jan
FA Cup 4th Round - Cardiff 1-2 Reading Sat 24 Jan
Championship - Middlesbrough 2-1 Cardiff Tue 20 Jan


BLACKBURN PREVIOUS 5 RESULTS

WLWLW

Championship - Blackburn 2-1 Rotherham Tue 10 Feb
Championship - Watford 1-0 Blackburn Sat 7 Feb
Championship - Blackburn 2-1 Fulham Sat 31 Jan
Championship - Derby - 2-0 Blackburn Tue 27 Jan
FA Cup 4th Round - Blackburn 3-1 Swansea Sat 24 Jan

City 2-0

Cardiff could get their lowest crowd of the season,plus only a couple of hundred Blackburn fans expected.

1-1

2-2

3-1 Cardiff

Blackburn are much better than Wednesday and Brighton. 1-3 Blackburn.

I had slightly more optimism after Wednesday but the Brighton game put an end to that, changing formation completely after what was our most positive game in ages just showed Slade up really

City 2 Rovers 0

Being as it's home advantage, I'm going for 3-0

To Blackburn!

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Cardiff City's last five Championship matches, Draw,Draw,Loss,Loss and Loss.

I would love City to win, but let's be honest some on here are ignoring form/ tactics, etc. We all like being positive but let's be realistic. We have been playing abysmal football for months and Blackburn just stuck 4 on Stoke.

1-3 or 1-4 Blackburn. That's being generous. We might not even bother their goalie.

I am hearing Slade is set to change the starting line up yet again.

I am hearing Slade is set to change the starting line up yet again.

The pressure's really on.

I am hearing Slade is set to change the starting line up yet again.

The pressure's really on.

Very much so and bigger than Slade has ever experienced before.