' MATCH THREAD: IPSWICH T v CARDIFF CITY ' MATCH THREAD

IPSWICH TOWN V CARDIFF CITY
Championship
Saturday, 31 October, 15:00
Portman Road

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About 350 Cardiff fans expected


Marshall
Peltier Connolly Morrison Fabio
Ameobi Whittingham Gunnarsson Ralls
Revell Mason

Moore
Malone
Tamas
O'Keefe
Kennedy
Noone
Pilkington

" UPDATED DAILY "

Bruno, Manga is responding well to treatment too and at first we said eight to 10 weeks, but that has maybe come down a little bit.

We are pleased with him, put it that way.

Cardiff City midfielder Kagisho Dikgacoi is a major doubt for Saturday's Championship clash with Ipswich after limping off with a hamstring injury on Monday night.


Kenwyne Jones hopefully back for Leeds away next Tuesday.

Kiko Macheda Another 4 weeks back operation.

Bruno Manga out for at least 6 weeks.

Ben Turner in light training.

Idriss Saadi back in full training next week.

Kagisho Dikgacoi is very doubtful.

Kenwyne Jones will miss Ipswich away, but back for Leeds away.



Latest News

Ipswich Town

Jonas Knudsen is expected to miss out when Ipswich look to end their seven-match winless run against Cardiff at Portman Road on Saturday.

The Danish defender suffered a hamstring injury in last week's draw with Nottingham Forest, while Cole Skuse also went off with an ankle problem but expects to be okay for Town, who last won on September 15 against Leeds.

Teddy Bishop is back in training following his hamstring problem, but the game is likely to come too soon for him.

Luke Hyam (knee) and Luke Varney (Achilles) are still weeks away from full fitness and Ryan Fraser has returned to parent club Bournemouth due to his knee injury.




Possible Lineups

Cardiff City

01 Marshall
02 Peltier
04 Morrison
16 Connolly
03 Fabio
11 Noone
8 Ralls
17 Gunnarsson
07 Whittingham
10 Mason
19 Revell

Ipswich

01 Gerken
04 Chambers
05 Smith
06 Berra
03 Parr
07 Maitland-Niles
08 Skuse
17 Bru
20 Sears
10 McGoldrick
09 Murphy

The Opposition

Ipswich Town Football Club (also known as Ipswich, The Blues, Town, or The Tractor Boys) is an English professional association football team based in Ipswich, Suffolk. As of the 2014–15 season, they play in the Football League Championship, having last appeared in the Premier League in 2001–02.

The club was founded in 1878 but did not turn professional until 1936, and was subsequently elected to join the Football League in 1938. They play their home games at Portman Road in Ipswich. The only fully professional football club in Suffolk, they have a long-standing and fierce rivalry with Norwich City in Norfolk, with whom they have contested the East Anglian derby 139 times since 1902. The club's traditional home colours are blue shirts and white socks.

Ipswich won the English league title once, in their first season in the top flight in 1961–62, and have twice finished runners-up, in 1980–81 and 1981–82. They won the FA Cup in 1977–78, and the UEFA Cup in 1980–81. They have competed in the top two tiers of English football uninterrupted since 1957–58, currently the longest streak among Championship clubs after Coventry were relegated in the 2011–12 season. They have competed in all three European club competitions, and have never lost at home in European competition, defeating Real Madrid, AC Milan, Internazionale, Lazio and Barcelona, amongst others.

2015/16 Latest Results

Cardiff

MON 26 OCT 2015 - CHAMPIONSHIP Cardiff 0 - 0 Bristol
TUE 20 OCT 2015 - CHAMPIONSHIP Cardiff 1 - 0 Middlesbrough
SAT 17 OCT 2015 - CHAMPIONSHIP Preston 0 - 0 Cardiff
SAT 3 OCT 2015 - CHAMPIONSHIP Brighton 1 - 1 Cardiff


Ipswich

SAT 24 OCT 2015 - CHAMPIONSHIP Nottm Forest 1 - 1 Ipswich
TUE 20 OCT 2015 - CHAMPIONSHIP Hull 3 - 0 Ipswich
SAT 17 OCT 2015 - CHAMPIONSHIP Ipswich 0 - 0 Huddersfield
SAT 3 OCT 2015 - CHAMPIONSHIP Blackburn 2 - 0 Ipswich

Last 5 meetings

2014/2015 Tue 14 Apr Ipswich Town 3 - 1 Cardiff City Championship
2014/2015 Tue 21 Oct Cardiff City 3 - 1 Ipswich Town Championship
2012/2013 Sat 12 Jan Cardiff City 0 - 0 Ipswich Town Championship
2012/2013 Sat 06 Oct Ipswich Town 1 - 2 Cardiff City Championship
2011/2012 Sat 18 Feb Ipswich Town 3 - 0 Cardiff City Championship

Previous Highlights




Portman Road



Key facts

Club: Ipswich Town FC
Opening: 1884
Capacity: 30,311 seats

History and description

Ipswich Town played their first match at Portman Road in 1884, though at that time it was only a bare pitch with a pavilion of the cricket club they shared the ground with.

In the early 20th century a first small wooden stand got built, but it took until 1936 when Ipswich turned professional that proper terraces were built.

Portman Road got gradually improved and expanded from the 1950s, with a new West Stand opening in 1957 and the new Portman Stand in 1971.

The stadium set its record attendance in 1975 when a total of 38,010 spectators attended an FA Cup match between Ipswich and Leeds. The West Stand got further expanded in 1982, but capacity had already started to decline due to safety measures.

Portman Road got converted into an all-seater in 1992, resulting in a capacity of 22,500 seats.

Promotion to the Premier League in the late 1990s made funds available for further improvements, which led to the complete rebuilding of both stands behind the goals in 2000 and 2002.

Match Odds

Cardiff 5/2
Draw 9/4
Ipswich 23/20

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Guess the Score / Attendance

Post your predicted score/attendance below

Ioswich 1 City 1

Ipswich 2 City 0.
Unfortunately, hope I'm wrong.

Ipswich3 Cardiff 0

We never do well at Ipswich and played crap Monday night and McCarthy was in the stand taking note of all our weaknesses, yet I'm going against convention and think we can it win 2-1
and I will be in the Railway pub at 1pm

2-2 yes I think we will score 2

0-0

Marshall on top form and defence looking pretty good. MF ok too but no cutting edge. To be honest, who wouldn't be happy with this, especially against Ipswich away!!

Think we may win 2-1.

2-1.

" Mini Update on Cardiff City Players "

Kenwyne Jones hopefully back for Leeds away next Tuesday.

Kiko Macheda Another 4 weeks back operation.

Bruno Manga out for at least 6 weeks.

Ben Turner in light training.

Idriss Saadi back in full training next week.

Kagisho Dikgacoi is very doubtful.

Date and Time: Saturday 31st October (15.00)

Venue: Portman Road

Referee: David Coote

Following Play-Off defeat last term, it’s been a disappointing start to the season for Mick McCarthy and his ‘Tractor Boys’ who currently occupy thirteenth place in the Sky Bet Championship table. Cardiff, on the other hand, have started relatively well and are unbeaten in five outings, however, in their last fixture, the Bluebirds put on a poor show against rivals Bristol City in goalless draw.

Ipswich boss Mick McCarthy has recently mentioned that he is “worried” by his team’s form and rightly so, Ipswich haven’t won for seven league games and have just two wins in their last ten games. The form is an un-welcomed change from last year when at times, Ipswich dominated much of the league with over twenty goals from forward Daryl Murphy.


The pressure is now starting to build on Ipswich and indeed on Mick McCarthy who may be fighting for his job if the current reign of form continues. Cardiff may look at Ipswich as an easy three points but with the run of results the Norfolk team have had, travelling to Portman Road suddenly becomes a difficult fixture because there’s no doubt they’ll be giving everything to get back to winning ways in front of their home crowd.

In their last fixture, Ipswich looked to have taken all three points from their trip to Nottingham Forest but Liam Trotter scored a début goal in the fifth minute of added time to snatch a point from Mick McCarthy’s men.

Cardiff, as mentioned, are now unbeaten in five games but only two of the five brought City the full three points. Their last outing was a disappointing goalless draw at home to struggling Severnside rivals Bristol City, the Robins were in fact very unlucky not to take three points away from the Cardiff City Stadium after dominating the majority of the clash.

Russell Slade’s men are currently three points behind the play-off’s in eighth position and four points in front of Saturday’s opposition Ipswich Town. Cardiff have been hard to beat when on their travel’s, they have lost just two away league games since January, meaning just two losses in fifteen away trips (although one of the losses did come against Ipswich.)

Team News

Ipswich Town

Jonas Knudsen was taken off after just over ten minutes in the Forest game due to a knee injury and he is expected to miss this one. Teddy Bishop, Ryan Fraser, Jay Tabb, Luke Varney and Luke Hyam could all remain out, while Christoph Berra missed the last outing due to a damaged hip and could well miss the Cardiff clash.

Cardiff City

Kenwyne Jones will miss out but he should return in time to play a part in the Leeds game on Tuesday, Joe Ralls returned as a substitute on Monday night and is expected to play a part. Kagisho Dikgacoi limped off during Cardiff’s clash with Bristol City and the South African is expected to miss this one. Federico Macheda is expected back on the fifteenth of next month following a back operation and Bruno Manga will return in December. Ben Turner finally has a solid date on his return, he will be fit to play from Sunday onwards and Idriss Saadi is another who will return on the same date.

Head-to-Head

18 Feb 2012 Ipswich Town v Cardiff City L 3-0 League Championship
06 Oct 2012 Ipswich Town v Cardiff City W 1-2 League Championship
12 Jan 2013 Cardiff City v Ipswich Town D 0-0 League Championship
21 Oct 2014 Cardiff City v Ipswich Town W 3-1 League Championship
14 Apr 2015 Ipswich Town v Cardiff City L 3-1 League Championship

0-0

1-1

some big injuries on both sides there

Jonas Knudsen is expected to miss out when Ipswich look to end their seven-match winless run against Cardiff at Portman Road on Saturday.

The Danish defender suffered a hamstring injury in last week's draw with Nottingham Forest, while Cole Skuse also went off with an ankle problem but expects to be okay for Town, who last won on September 15 against Leeds.

Teddy Bishop is back in training following his hamstring problem, but the game is likely to come too soon for him.

Luke Hyam (knee) and Luke Varney (Achilles) are still weeks away from full fitness and Ryan Fraser has returned to parent club Bournemouth due to his knee injury.


Cardiff striker Kenwyne Jones will be sidelined again after missing the last three games with a shin injury.

The 31-year-old suffered the injury while on international duty with Trinidad & Tobago earlier this month and only the own goal of Middlesbrough's George Friend has come Cardiff's way since Jones has been absent.

The Bluebirds hope Jones will be available for next Tuesday's visit to Leeds, but in the meantime Joe Mason, Alex Revell and Sammy Ameobi will contest the two striking spots at Ipswich.

Joe Ralls is set to return after a hamstring problem prevented him from starting the last two matches, the young midfielder coming on as a second-half substitute in Monday night's goalless derby with Bristol City.

Kagisho Dikgacoi has been a mainstay in Slade's side this year, starting every Championship match this season

30/10/15

Walesonline

Cardiff City midfielder Kagisho Dikgacoi is a major doubt for Saturday's Championship clash with Ipswich after limping off with a hamstring injury on Monday night.

The 30-year-old has started every league game for the Bluebirds this season after the majority of his first term at the club was hampered by injury.

He came off after 51 minutes of the 0-0 draw against Bristol City on Monday night and is now in serious danger of missing out on this weekend's trip to Portman Road.

"We’ve got one or two niggles as a result of the game or training, we will know more today," said Cardiff City boss Russell Slade.

"Dikgacoi is a doubt with a hamstring."

" RUSSELL SLADE ON CARDIFFS INJURIES "

30/10/15

Keneyne Jones might be involved at Leeds on Tuesday. He’s on track, let’s put it that way.

Kagisho Dikgacoi is very doubtful for Ipswich with a hamstring problem.


Cardiff City midfielder Kagisho Dikgacoi is a doubt to face Ipswich



We’ve got one or two other niggles as a result of the Bristol City game and training. We will look at those and should know more about it soon.

Bruno Manga is responding well to treatment too and at first we said eight to 10 weeks, but that has maybe come down a little bit.

We are pleased with him, put it that way.

Bruno Manga is responding well to treatment too and at first we said eight to 10 weeks, but that has maybe come down a little bit.

SLADE,We are pleased with him, put it that way.

Would take a point we seem to like a draw to so 1-1

The score depends on how many set peices we have cause we certainly Can't score from open play my guess Ipswich 2 city1 Ipswich been abit of a bogey team for cardiff

Mason and Revell up top again and Gunnarson in midfield. Don't like that myself.

Lively start by Cardiff.

Marshall
Peltier Connolly Morrison Fabio
Ameobi Whittingham Gunnarsson Ralls
Revell Mason

Moore
Malone
Tamas
O'Keefe
Kennedy
Noone
Pilkington

Ipswich corner, Murphy header against the post. First chance of the game after 15 minutes.

Gunnerson half volley creating good save from Ipswich keeper Gerkin.

27 minutes: Deflected shot forcing a great save from Marshall.

zzzzzzzz zzzzzzzzzz

Fabio hurt. Going to be substituted.

Solid away performance atm.