MATCH THREAD: CARDIFF CITY V IPSWICH TOWN MATCH THREAD

CARDIFF CITY v IPSWICH TOWN
Championship
Saturday, 12 March, 15:00
Cardiff City Stadium

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Cardiff City : Moore, Peltier, Connolly, Manga, Malone, Whittingham, Ralls, O'Keefe, Noone, Immers and Pilkington.

Subs : Wilson, Morrison, Gunnarsson, Dikgacoi, Lawrence, Zohore and Ameobi.

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Ipswich are bringing a following of around 900 fans

Russell Slade on Cardiff's injuries

Friday 11th March 2016


Fabio and Peltier

What’s the situation with Fabio?

Slade: It’s just a one game ban I can confirm.
What about Lee Peltier’s foot injury

There’s a possibility. He will go on the grass this morning to train. I will be looking at him. It would be a huge boost obviously if he is available..

Injuries ahead of Ipswich?

What is the injury situation?


Russell Slade

There’s a few broken hearts after the Leeds match. No, there’s one or two niggly things. We’ve not got a long time for recovery. That’s important now, that’s the main focus. We are getting most of them out on grass. We need to assess and take stock. We’ve one or two problems, but nothing major. We hope to get the players we need over the line.

11/03/16

Team News

Cardiff City

Cardiff find themselves in a tricky situation in the full-back department with Lee Peltier unlikely to return and Fabio Da Silva now serving a one-match suspension. Matthew Connolly is likely to shift to right-back with Sean Morrison coming in to cover at centre-back. Ben Turner is still just over a month away from a return.

Ipswich Town

Striker Daryl Murphy will return to action this weekend. Giles Coke misses out with a knee injury while David McGoldrick and Teddy Bishop both miss out with hamstring injuries. Cole Skuse should return after missing the last five fixtures.

10/03/16

Peltier is still a way off full fitness after suffering severe bruising to his foot in the win at Ashton Gate, although Slade could have the right-back available for the following week’s trip to Reading, having initially feared the former Leicester, Leeds and Huddersfield man had broken the bone.

Fabio will serve a one-game suspension for his sending off, with Slade saying: “Fabio has just gone over to try and make a tackle. He’s made a meal of it but is it a yellow? Yes it probably is.”

“He will serve a ban and Lee will still be a doubt for Saturday, there’s no doubt about that, so we may have to reshuffle a little bit.”


Fabio is serving a one match ban.

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Possible Lineups

Cardiff City

1 Marshall
4 Morrison
5 Ecuele Manga
16 Connolly
28 Malone
37 Lawrence
22 O'Keefe
8 Ralls
7 Whittingham
13 Pilkington
27 Immers


Ipswich Town

33 Bialkowski
4 Chambers
5 Smith
6 Berra
3 Knudsen
17 Bru
22 Douglas
44 Foley
15 Pringle
20 Sears
11 Pitman


The Opposition

IPSWICH TOWN



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 shorts.

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, among others.


2015/16 Latest Results

Cardiff

TUE 8 MAR 2016 - CHAMPIONSHIP Cardiff 0 - 2 Leeds
SAT 5 MAR 2016 - CHAMPIONSHIP Bristol 0 - 2 Cardiff
SAT 27 FEB 2016 - CHAMPIONSHIP Cardiff 2 - 1 Preston
TUE 23 FEB 2016 - CHAMPIONSHIP Boro 3 - 1 Cardiff


Ipswich Town

TUE 8 MAR 2016 - CHAMPIONSHIP Bolton 2 - 2 Ipswich
SAT 5 MAR 2016 - CHAMPIONSHIP Ipswich 1 - 0 Nottm Forest
SAT 27 FEB 2016 - CHAMPIONSHIP Huddersfield 0 - 1 Ipswich
TUE 23 FEB 2016 - CHAMPIONSHIP Ipswich 0 - 1 Hull


Recent meetings

2015/2016 Sat 31 Oct Ipswich Town 0 - 0 Cardiff City Championship
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


Previous Highlights




Match Odds

Cardiff 7/5
Draw 12/5
Ipswich 11/5

Tickets

Cardiff v Ipswich is a SILVER category match (see prices here: http://www.cardiffcityfc.co.uk/tickets/ticket-prices/)

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. You can click here to purchase tickets: https://www.eticketing.co.uk/cardiffcity

For all ticket enquiries, please call the Cardiff City ticket office 0845 345 1400


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2-1 City.

City 2 Ipswich T 1

Cardiff City 3-1 Ipswich

2-1 City

1-1

Sean Morrison set for Cardiff City comeback as Russell Slade ponders reshuffle for Ipswich clash

With Fabio suspended and Lee Peltier unlikely to recover from injury in time, Slade could be forced into shuffling the pack when Ipswich come to Cardiff

Sean Morrison looks set for a Cardiff City comeback as Bluebirds boss Russell Slade ponders a defensive reshuffle ahead of Saturday’s crucial clash with Ipswich.

Cardiff have the chance to deliver a blow to one of their rivals for a top-six spot this weekend when they look to bounce back from midweek defeat to Leeds with a positive result against Mick McCarthy’s men.

But Slade admits he has defensive decisions to make beforehand having seen full-back Fabio sent-off in the 2-0 loss on Tuesday night after he received two yellow cards in the space of seven second-half minutes.

3-1

1-1
Att 12456

2-0 for City dare I say

Need to win this one against a rival

Peltier is still a way off full fitness after suffering severe bruising to his foot in the win at Ashton Gate, although Slade could have the right-back available for the following week’s trip to Reading, having initially feared the former Leicester, Leeds and Huddersfield man had broken the bone.

Fabio will serve a one-game suspension for his sending off, with Slade saying: “Fabio has just gone over to try and make a tackle. He’s made a meal of it but is it a yellow? Yes it probably is.”

“He will serve a ban and Lee will still be a doubt for Saturday, there’s no doubt about that, so we may have to reshuffle a little bit.”

Looks a good bet for a score draw to me. Whatever the result, nothing will be decided this weekend.

McCarthy: Great to Have Murph and Skusey Back


Boss Mick McCarthy is delighted that key pair Daryl Murphy and Cole Skuse should be back from their injuries for Saturday’s game away against fellow play-off challengers Cardiff City.

Skuse has missed the last five games with a toe ligament injury, while Murphy has been sidelined for two matches with a calf problem, but the Blues manager expects them both to be OK to face the Bluebirds, who are seventh, one place above Town - who have a game in hand - on goal difference alone.

“It’s great to be able to call on Cole Skuse and Daryl Murphy,” McCarthy said. “They’ve been virtually ever present in the team, they’re two very, very good players for us.

“If they are available, which I think they will be, they should train with us on Friday, then that’ll be a real bonus for all of us.

“No disrespect to anybody else because they’ve been picked on merit, week in, week out for the last two or three seasons. And if they’re fit, they’d expect to play.”

He says the pair won’t have lost too much fitness due to their time out and says it may actually benefit them in the final weeks of the season.

“At this stage, the lads keep themselves really well and if they’re injured they’re not just injured and not doing anything, they’ve been doing their rehab,” he added.

“I would say Skusey has got as fit as anybody and has endurance in him, and so does Murph.

“In a strange way it might be that a break gives them a chance to finish the season on a high and full of running. Let’s hope it does.”

Given the two lengthy trips this week and then the back-to-back home games against Blackburn and Rotherham, McCarthy says he’ll be looking to freshen up his side.

“Yes, absolutely. It’s not been easy because we’ve had so many injuries but we’ve got three games in quick succession on the back of a bonkers long trip to Bolton and back.

“We were back here at 10 to four and we’ve got a similar trip now to Cardiff. If I can get fresh legs in the team I will.”

McCarthy says on-loan Arsenal youngster Ainsley Maitland-Niles is fine, despite conceding the late, late penalty which saw the Blues drop two points at Bolton.

“He seems all right this morning, he’s trained fine,” the Blues boss added. “There are no recriminations from any of us because we’ve all made mistakes, me more than anybody because I’m older than all of them, so I’ve made a lot more than they have. And they, we have just got to get on with it.

“My philosophical view of it, the older I get, is that if I’d been asked before we went to Huddersfield, ‘Mick, would you take being one point off the play-offs with a game in hand after the Bolton game but you’ll concede a 96th minute equaliser to a penalty’, would I have taken it? Damn right I’d have taken it.

“And that’s where we are. I look at the last three games, we could have lost all those three.

Team News

Cardiff City

Cardiff find themselves in a tricky situation in the full-back department with Lee Peltier unlikely to return and Fabio Da Silva now serving a one-match suspension. Matthew Connolly is likely to shift to right-back with Sean Morrison coming in to cover at centre-back. Ben Turner is still just over a month away from a return.

Ipswich Town

Striker Daryl Murphy will return to action this weekend. Giles Coke misses out with a knee injury while David McGoldrick and Teddy Bishop both miss out with hamstring injuries. Cole Skuse should return after missing the last five fixtures.

City 3 - 1 Ipswich

16,000 crowd

Russell Slade on Cardiff's injuries

Friday 11th March 2016

By Simon Gaskel

Fabio and Peltier

What’s the situation with Fabio?

Slade: It’s just a one game ban I can confirm.
What about Lee Peltier’s foot injury

There’s a possibility. He will go on the grass this morning to train. I will be looking at him. It would be a huge boost obviously if he is available..

Injuries ahead of Ipswich?

What is the injury situation?


Russell Slade

There’s a few broken hearts after the Leeds match. No, there’s one or two niggly things. We’ve not got a long time for recovery. That’s important now, that’s the main focus. We are getting most of them out on grass. We need to assess and take stock. We’ve one or two problems, but nothing major. We hope to get the players we need over the line.

2-1 ,,,, 14,800

City 3 - 1 Ipswich

16,000 crowd

Looks like smallest crowd of season to me judging by online ticketing. Will be announced as 12k, but actual less than 10k.

' IPSWICH TOWN HAVE SOLD '

860 Tickets, plus they can pay on the day, Brilliant Support for a 500 mile round trip.

Have I missed something or is the Cardiff City app having a mare like usual? Moore starting todays game? Please NO

Cardiff City : Moore, Peltier, Connolly, Manga, Malone, Whittingham, Ralls, O'Keefe, Noone, Immers and Pilkington.

Subs : Wilson, Morrison, Gunnarsson, Dikgacoi, Lawrence, Zohore and Ameobi.

Marshall did have a back problem.

Marshall has a virus.

What's Lawrence done to get dropped then? Strange one.

Saadi not in the squad either, not that Slade has given a chance mind, don't know what he sees in Zahore mind, ah well, come on City.

Glad Noone is starting get right at them from the start.

This is a rigid 442 long ball down the middle

Long afternoon I think

Kick and rush rubbish


Another contract you are have a laugh

Kick and rush rubbish


Another contract you are have a laugh

Results matter more than the style at the business end.

If we had kenwynn there would be some logic in the madness

Some good football by Cardiff so far