MATCH THREAD “ CARDIFF CITY v NORWICH CITY “ MATCH THREAD

CARDIFF CITY v NORWICH CITY
Tuesday 28th August, 7.45pm
Carabao Cup, Second Round
Cardiff City Stadium



Cardiff City:
Smithies; Richards, Peltier, Manga, Connolly, Cunningham; Camarasa, Damour; Reid, Harris, Madine

Subs:Brian Murphy Joe Bennett Cameron Coxe Ciaron Brown Callum Paterson Danny Ward Kenneth Zohore

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28/08/18

Goalkeeper Alex Smithies and defender Greg Cunningham are set to make their Cardiff City debuts in Tuesday's Carabao Cup second round tie against Norwich City.

Bluebirds manager Neil Warnock is set to make changes with Sunday's Premier League game against Arsenal in mind.

Lee Peltier, Jazz Richards, Loic Damour and Gary Madine are expected to get game-time.

Norwich boss Daniel Farke is also expected to make changes.

Summer signing Emi Buendia could make his first start for the club after two substitute appearances in the last week and Mario Vrancic may also be in contention after injury.

Other players who are expected to start are Christoph Zimmermann, Ben Godfrey, Dennis Srbeny and Marco Stiepermann.




27/08/18


CARDIFF CITY:


Aron Gunnarsson should be back very soon, slight chance of playing tonight v Norwich City.


Junior Hoilett could be out for a couple of weeks.


Nathaniel Mendez-Laing could be out injured between 3-6 months.

Neil Warnock will be making changes and giving some of the rest of his squad a chance to play including new goalkeeper Smithie

NORWICH CITY:

Daniel Farke is weighing up wholesale changes for Norwich City’s League Cup trip to Cardiff Cit, Farke is expected to make up to 8 changes and field a weekend team.



Betting odds

Outcome after 90 minutes

Cardiff City win 4/5

Draw 13/5

Norwich City win 10/3

To progress

Cardiff City 2/5

Norwich City 7/4

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About Norwich City

Norwich City Football Club (also known as The Canaries or City) is an English professional football club based in Norwich. The club currently participate in the Championship, the second tier of English football, having been relegated from the Premier League in 2016. They were first promoted to the top flight in 1972. Norwich have won the League Cup twice, in 1962 and 1985. The club has never won the top flight, but finished third in 1993.

The club was founded in 1902. Since 1935, Norwich have played their home games at Carrow Road and have a long-standing and fierce rivalry with East Anglian rivals Ipswich Town, with whom they have contested the East Anglian derby 134 times since 1902.

The fans' song "On the Ball, City" is regarded as being the oldest football song in the world which is still in use. The club participate in characteristic yellow and green kits and are nicknamed The Canaries after the history of breeding the birds in the area.

Previous Meeting

We beat Norwich in April of this year in the Championship. Two late goals from Kenneth Zohore and Junior Hoilett secured the 2-0 win.

Team News - Predicted Line-Ups

Cardiff City: Etheridge, Manga, Morrison, Bamba, Bennett, Ralls, Arter, Camarasa, Hoilett, Murphy, Zohore

Norwich City: Krul, Pinto, Hanley, Klose, Lewis, Thompson, Trybull, Pukki, Leitner, Hernandez, Rhodes

Form - Last Three Games

Huddersfield Town 0-0 Cardiff City
Cardiff City 0-0 Newcastle United
AFC Bournemouth 2-0 Cardiff City

Norwich City 0-3 Leeds United
Norwich City 2-0 Preston North End
Sheffield United 2-1 Norwich City

Match Odds

Cardiff City - 3/4
Norwich City - 18/5
Draw - 11/4

Predictions

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2-1 .

How Cardiff City could line up against Norwich City


By Ian Mitchelmore


Monday 27th August 2018


Neil Warnock revealed he picked his Cardiff City side to face Norwich City in the Carabao Cup before the Bluebirds' Premier League clash with Huddersfield Town at the John Smith's Stadium.

The Bluebirds collected their second point of the season with a 0-0 draw against the Terriers in West Yorkshire but are yet to score a goal so far in the 2018/19 Premier League campaign.

They will hope their fortunes change when they welcome Championship side Norwich to Cardiff City Stadium in the second round of the Carabao Cup on Tuesday night.

And Warnock revealed after Cardiff's stalemate with his former club that he has already selected his team to face the Canaries and promised that he will make wholesale changes from the side that started against the Terriers.

"I picked the team for Tuesday on Friday," said the Cardiff boss.

"When I put it up on the board I thought 'bloody hell!'.

"When I came to the club I'd have settled for that team in the Championship. It's not bad the squad we've got. We've done that over 18 months.

"Everybody will get a chance that hasn't played today (against Huddersfield). And then we'll have to fill in with one or two that have been in the squad to make the numbers.

"It's a good game for us. I need to look at one or two things and that'll be a good opportunity for me."

So which players are set to get the nod against Daniel Farke's side?




We took a closer look.

The men in contention to start

Neil Etheridge has fully justified his position as the club's first choice goalkeeper having kept clean sheets in two of the Bluebirds' three Premier League games so far as well as saving penalties against Bournemouth and Newcastle United.

It's meant summer signing Alex Smithies has had to settle for a place on the bench, but the former Queens Park Rangers man is set to make his competitive bow for the Bluebirds against Norwich, with Brian Murphy most likely to be named among the substitutes.






And there's set to be big changes in the back line too.

Smithies' fellow summer recruit Greg Cunningham should get the nod on the left, with Joe Bennett set to be rested while Matthew Connolly, Lee Peltier and Jazz Richards are all in the mix to start, although captain Sean Morrison could well remain in the starting XI to give the Bluebirds some continuity in defence.

Further up the pitch, Loic Damour is in line to get his first minutes of the season while Callum Paterson could well get the nod given that he's started the last two games on the bench, although he did play the majority of the 0-0 draw with Huddersfield due to the injury suffered by Nathaniel Mendez-Laing.

Junior Hoilett is unlikely to return to action until after the international break, and it means Kadeem Harris could get the chance to shine in front of the Cardiff faithful on Tuesday night.

Don't be too surprised if Josh Murphy takes to the field from the outset given the injuries to Hoilett and Mendez-Laing, while Warnock did make it clear that he will have to include some players who have been involved in the three games so far this season in the squad for the visit of the Carrow Road outfit.

And as for the forwards, Bobby Reid and Danny Ward will be vying for starts having made cameos in the draw against Huddersfield while Gary Madine will also be desperate to prove his worth as he bids to score his first competitive goal for the Bluebirds since his January move to South Wales from Bolton.






How the Bluebirds could line up

Here's a closer look at the ways Cardiff could line up in their cup clash with the Canaries.

4-1-3-2

Smithies; Peltier/Richards, Morrison, Connolly, Cunningham; Damour; Paterson, Reid, Harris; Ward, Madine.

4-2-3-1

Smithies; Peltier/Richards, Morrison, Connolly, Cunningham; Damour, Paterson; Murphy, Reid, Harris; Ward.

4-4-2/4-2-2-2

Smithies; Peltier/Richards, Morrison, Connolly, Cunningham; Damour, Paterson; Reid, Harris; Ward, Madine.

Given our lack of wingers who are fit there's no way Warnock will risk Murphy. I wonder if Cunningham could play centre back and Jazz left back? Hope people turn up for a change......I'd love a good run in the Carabao for once.

3-0 to us and 8k att.

Neil Warnock on the Carabao Cup clash with Norwich City

NEIL WARNOCK:

“I picked the team for Tuesday on Friday,” said the Cardiff boss.
“When I put it up on the board I thought ‘bloody hell!’.

“When I came to the club I’d have settled for that team in the Championship. It’s not bad the squad we’ve got. We’ve done that over 18 months.

“Everybody will get a chance that hasn’t played today (against Huddersfield). And then we’ll have to fill in with one or two that have been in the squad to make the numbers.

“It’s a good game for us. I need to look at one or two things and that’ll be a good opportunity for me.”

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TEAM NEWS: Changes afoot for Norwich City

Monday 27th August 2018

Daniel Farke is weighing up wholesale changes for Norwich City’s League Cup trip to Cardiff City.

Daniel Farke faces a league and cup double header this week Picture: Paul Chesterton/Focus Images LtdDaniel Farke faces a league and cup double header this week.


Farke admitted the planning is already underway for the Championship derby trip to Ipswich Town this coming weekend but he is in no mood to write-off his squad’s chances against the Premier League Bluebirds on Tuesday.

The head coach reported no fresh injury concerns from the 3-0 Championship defeat to Leeds as he looks to shuffle his pack.

“No fresh injuries,” he said. “But a third game in six days means we make changes. For several lads, a lot of load. We’ll make a late decision who travels and then who plays. Timm Klose missed not one minute so far on the pitch. Also for Temmu Pukki and Jordan Rhodes a lot of load and the likes of Grant Hanley, Ivo Pinto, Alex Tettey missed most of pre-season.

“For that, we want to be there with a strong team and a chance to go to the third round. I like this cup competition a lot and we will try everything but it is also important to be start.


“Alex Tettey will travel with us. It was more like after Preston two games in four days would be tough. We have to remember his age and the knee issues he has had. But to give him another game off before Ipswich would be too long. It was good for him to be able to recreate at the weekend but he is back in a good shape.”

Mario Vrancic will not be risked as he steps up his return from a pelvic problem.


Michael McGovern will start and Farke plans to give some of his young charges an outing.

“Not as a gift,” he said. “I wouldn’t go into such a game without the thought we could be competitive. Maybe last season we made three or four changes for the cup but now we have more depth in the squad. I am pretty pleased with Ben Godfrey and it is almost ridiculous Christoph Zimmermann has not had more minutes. They are both in a good shape.

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“I am totally pleased with Todd Cantwell and they all have chances to be involved at Cardiff.”

Farke is well aware there is a massive clash at Portman Road on the horizon.

“The Ipswich game is already a bit in our head. It is a special game,” he said. “These two are the most important for us during the whole season and our supporters. Right now, we are in this Saturday, Tuesday rhythm and if our cup game was Wednesday and Ipswich was Saturday my cup starting line up would be about the Ipswich game.

“But there are enough days to recover so we can go strong at Cardiff.

“For someone like Alex Tettey, too much rest is not good. A positive, successful game at Cardiff can actually help us. We know this is not a final at Wembley, it is the second round of the League Cup but we want to use our chance.”

Kenny McLean is definitely ruled out until after the international break with ankle ligament damage.

Matt Jarvis is a longer term absentees. Russell Martin and Nelson Oliveira remain out of favour, ahead of Friday’s transfer deadline.

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Cardiff manager Neil Warnock will ring the changes for the Carabao Cup visit of Norwich.

Goalkeeper Alex Smithies and defender Greg Cunningham are expected to make debuts following their summer arrivals. Lee Peltier, Jazz Richards, Loic Damour and Gary Madine are among those expected to get game-time as Warnock rotates heavily with Sunday's Premier League game against Arsenal in mind.

Nathaniel Mendez-Laing was injured in a collision with Huddersfield goalkeeper Ben Hamer on Saturday and he will sit out the second-round tie alongside Junior Hoilett (groin) and Aron Gunnarsson (knee).

I have a feeling that this will be one of those games where fans will wish they were anywhere bar the CCS. I think Norwich will win a scrappy game 2-1.

If 9000 turned up for the pointless match with Real Betis, then I just hope we get a tidy crowd tonight. After all, players like Ward and Harris have a place in the first team to play for.

Aron Gunnarsson should be back very soon, slight chance of playing tonight v Norwich City.


Junior Hoilett could be out for a couple of weeks.


Nathaniel Mendez-Laing could be out injured between 3-6 months.

Daniel Farke:

"Cardiff City have not conceded a goal in their last two Premier Games"
"I think we have a good chance and I want to go through to the next round."
"We have made changes and will be playing many of the rest of my squad"

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BLUEMUN
9,000 for real betis fans were starved of footie and all wanted to see what new players looked like i would be suprised if we have over 8,000 tonight and arsenal coming up on the weekend, players injured reserve players mid week game i personally cannot make it i have season ticket but live 3 hours away and work till 5.30 so will miss any mid week game this season thankfully not many evening games for us this season.

Goalkeeper Alex Smithies and defender Greg Cunningham are set to make their Cardiff City debuts in Tuesday's Carabao Cup second round tie against Norwich City.

Bluebirds manager Neil Warnock is set to make changes with Sunday's Premier League game against Arsenal in mind.

Lee Peltier, Jazz Richards, Loic Damour and Gary Madine are expected to get game-time.

Norwich boss Daniel Farke is also expected to make changes.

Summer signing Emi Buendia could make his first start for the club after two substitute appearances in the last week and Mario Vrancic may also be in contention after injury.

Other players who are expected to start are Christoph Zimmermann, Ben Godfrey, Dennis Srbeny and Marco Stiepermann.

Daniel Farke: Cardiff will provide a difficult and physical test

BBC

Daniel Farke is expecting a difficult and physical test when his Norwich City team take on Cardiff City in Round Two of the Carabao Cup on Tuesday night.

City gained no points from their two matches with the Bluebirds last season and Farke is expecting a tough challenge when the two sides, now in different leagues, meet once again.


DANIEL FARKE:

"They [Cardiff] always play in the same style, lots of intensity and aggressiveness," said the City boss.

"To be successful in this style, he needs recreated players on the pitch. They haven't conceded any goals in their last two games.

"I would prefer to play their last starting line-up because they lost a lot of energy.

"But he has many options. Bobby Reid was on the bench for them and he was brilliant in the Championship last year.

"It will be difficult and physical."

"We will be fielding a lot of our other squad players"

Five days after City play Cardiff comes the small matter of the first East Anglian derby of the season at Portman Road and Farke admits that match is already part of his thinking.

"The Ipswich game is already in our head. It's a special game for our supporters. If the cup game was on Wednesday and Ipswich was on Saturday, I would choose a starting line-up with that in mind.

"There are enough days to recover so we can go strong in tomorrow's game. Too much rest can sometimes not be good."

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Cardiff City's Carabao Cup campaign begins tonight as they host Championship side Norwich City in the second round of this season's competition.


Cardiff won both of their Championship matches against Norwich in the 2017-18 season, having won just two of their previous 11 games against the Canaries (all in league competition).


Norwich eliminated Cardiff from the League Cup in their only previous tie in the competition in the second round in 1983-84 – after a goalless first leg, the Canaries won 3-0 at Carrow Road in the second leg with a hat-trick from Mick Channon.


Norwich have won their last six League Cup second round matches, while Cardiff haven’t reached the third round since 2014-15.


Cardiff winger Junior Hoilett has scored four goals in his last six matches against Norwich in all competitions.



This is Cardiff manager Neil Warnock’s 13th consecutive home League Cup match, winning six and losing six of the previous 12.

His last cup match against Norwich was in the FA Cup in February 1992, with his Notts County side losing 3-0.

NORWICH TEAM NEWS

McGovern; Passlack, Godfrey, Zimmerman, Aarons; Tettey, Trybull, Buendia; Cantwell, Stiepermann, Srbeny.

Looks like Richards is playing virtually as a genuine right winger, with Kadeem Harris on the other side.

That means Bobby Reid is tucking in behind Gary Madine to make it a 4-4-2 of sorts, more a 4-4-1-1. Cardiff have enjoyed most of the ball in these first four minutes, much of it coming through Reid.

Even start here, no real chances for either side so far.

A very small but fairly noisey crowd inside the CCS tonight. Still 0-0 #Bluebirds

Srbeny surges forwards and cuts inside but shoots straight at Smithies

Bruno Manga making his presence felt in the opening exchanges

Zimmermann played a long ball over to Aarons who travelled down the left towards goal but but his cut back was cleared by Cardiff.

Srbeny beats the offside trap but his effort is well saved by Smithies.

Smithies on hand to keep out Srbeny again

25 - Goal for @NorwichCityFC - Srbeny with an unstoppable shot into the top corner of the net. (0-1)

Warnock out.

Would like to progress tonight but at the very least hope we score a goal

Nice to get to 1-1 and be great to have penalty shoot-out practice... and win

Most important thing tonight is no injuries or suspensions.
A goal or two for Zahore off the bench for confidence would be nice.

Not really bothered if we win or lose this game i would rather concentrate on the league and have a go at the FA cup.