MATCH THREAD “ MANCHESTER CITY v CARDIFF CITY “ MATCH THREAD

MANCHESTER CITY v CARDIFF CITY
Wednesday 3rd April 2019, 7.45pm
Premier League
Etihad Stadium


Cardiff City: Etheridge; Peltier, Morrison, Manga, Bennett; Gunnarsson, Ralls, Camarasa; Murphy, Hoilett, Niasse.

Subs: B.Murphy, Zohore, Reid, Bacuna, Cunningham, Mendez-Laing, Harris.



Cardiff City have sold just over 700 tickets

Cardiff have taken a reduced allocation of 1,500 tickets, instead of the usual 3,000 away ticket allocation.

Still tickets available for Cardiff fans


TEAM NEWS:

02/04/19

NEIL WARNOCK:

"We have Sol Bamba and Callum Paterson out for the season and now we have a number of players carrying knocks."

"That was another kick in the teeth following on from numerous other kicks in the teeth and psychologically you’ve got to be strong to overcome that.

"I won’t know until I look at the faces in the dressing room on Wednesday night whether any of the players aren’t up for it.

"The pleasing is that we three or four players knocks on Sunday, but they all want to play, which I think is brilliant. It'd be easy with Man City to stop home by the fire. "

The probable Cardiff City team: Etheridge; Peltier, Manga, Morrison, Cunningham; Ralls, Camarasa, Arter; Mendez-Laing, Hoilett, Niasse.



MANCHESTER CITY:

PEP: The next games I am going to make a few changes. We cannot win the Premier League and the other tournaments just with the players who played on Saturday, a few players are going to play against Cardiff and I want the best of them

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I can’t get to Etihad Stadium, is the match on TV?

Yes, the match is live on Sky Sports.

About Manchester City

Manchester City Football Club is a football club based in Manchester, England, that competes in the Premier League, the top flight of English football. Founded in 1880 as St. Mark's (West Gorton), it became Ardwick Association Football Club in 1887 and Manchester City in 1894. The club's home ground is the City of Manchester Stadium in east Manchester, to which it moved in 2003, having played at Maine Road since 1923.

Manchester City entered the Football League in 1899, and won their first major honour with the FA Cup in 1904. It had its first major period of success in the late 1960s, winning the League, FA Cup and League Cup under the management of Joe Mercer and Malcolm Allison. After losing the 1981 FA Cup Final, the club went through a period of decline, culminating in relegation to the third tier of English football. Having regained their Premier League status in the early 2000s, Manchester City was purchased in 2008 by Abu Dhabi United Group for £210 million and received considerable financial investment.

The club won the Premier League in 2012, 2014 and, most recently in 2018, also becoming the first Premier League team to attain 100 points in a single season. Manchester City's revenue was the fifth highest of a football club in the world in the 2017–18 season at €527.7 million. In 2018, Forbes estimated the club was the fifth most valuable in the world at $2.47 billion.

Previous Meeting

We lost 5-0 at home to Manchester City in September. Rihyad Mahrez scored two while Sergio Aguero, Bernardo Silva and Ilkay Gundogan also scored.

Team News - Predicted Line-Ups

Manchester City: Ederson, Walker, Otamendi, Laporte, Zinchenko, De Bruyne, Gundogan, David Silva, Bernardo Silva, Sterling, Aguero

Cardiff City: Etheridge, Peltier, Manga, Morrison, Bennett, Gunnarsson, Arter, Camarasa, Hoilett, Murphy, Niasse

Form - Last Three Games

Fulham 0-2 Manchester City
Swansea City 2-3 Manchester City
Manchester City 7-0 Schalke

Cardiff City 1-2 Chelsea
Cardiff City 2-0 West Ham United
Wolves 2-0 Cardiff City

Match Odds

Manchester City - 1/11
Cardiff City - 25/1
Draw - 9/1

Predictions

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Cardiff have taken a reduced allocation of 1,500 tickets.
Still some tickets available for Cardiff fans

PEP: The next games I am going to make a few changes. We cannot win the Premier League and the other tournaments just with the players who played on Saturday, a few players are going to play against Cardiff and I want the best of them

TEAM NEWS:

02/04/19

NEIL WARNOCK:

"We have Sol Bamba and Callum Paterson out for the season and now we have a number of players carrying knocks."

"That was another kick in the teeth following on from numerous other kicks in the teeth and psychologically you’ve got to be strong to overcome that.

"I won’t know until I look at the faces in the dressing room on Wednesday night whether any of the players aren’t up for it.

"The pleasing is that we three or four players knocks on Sunday, but they all want to play, which I think is brilliant. It'd be easy with Man City to stop home by the fire. "

The probable Cardiff City team: Etheridge; Peltier, Manga, Morrison, Cunningham; Ralls, Camarasa, Arter; Mendez-Laing, Hoilett, Niasse.

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I hope we rest every player has a knock and every player who was on international duty.

I would go further and play the reserves and gamble everything on Burnley and Brighton, and then again rest the whole team before Fulham and Palace!!!

Cardiff have taken a reduced allocation of 1,500 tickets.
Still some tickets available for Cardiff fans

Anyone got a spare adult ticket hanging around? Need one more. Thanks

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Cardiff City have sold just over 700 tickets

Cardiff have taken a reduced allocation of 1,500 tickets.

Still tickets available for Cardiff fans

They beat Schalke 7-0, anything less tonight would be half decent. I can't see us keeping them below four unfortunately. Just hope it's not a cricket score.

I am expecting the unexpected after a very strong performance against Chelsea, so I will predict: Man City 2-3 Cardiff

I am expecting the unexpected after a very strong performance against Chelsea, so I will predict: Man City 2-3 Cardiff

I with I had your confidence

Arter will not play on 9 bookings and another one means he misses Burnley.
I would stick with the same side as we do look a better unit with last weeks starting 11.

Aguero out injured

May be a chance

According to SSN, Jazz Richards is playing tonight.

Arter will not play on 9 bookings and another one means he misses Burnley.
I would stick with the same side as we do look a better unit with last weeks starting 11.

He cant be suspended for reaching 10 bookings. The date for that passed last weekend. He has to play, he provides crucial energy in the middle. After today we're not playing for 10 days.

Cardiff City: Etheridge; Peltier, Morrison, Manga, Bennett; Gunnarsson, Ralls, Camarasa; Murphy, Hoilett, Niasse.

Subs: B.Murphy, Zohore, Reid, Bacuna, Cunningham, Mendez-Laing, Harris.

Cardiff City: Etheridge; Peltier, Morrison, Manga, Bennett; Gunnarsson, Ralls, Camarasa; Murphy, Hoilett, Niasse.

Subs: B.Murphy, Zohore, Reid, Bacuna, Cunningham, Mendez-Laing, Harris.

1-0 .

1-0

This will be embarrassing

Very poor goalkeeping by Etheridge cant be beaten at your near post like that.

Could be 3-0 already

This is scary

We look like we are not even trying, just walking around the pitch. No pressing, no urgency.

We look like we have given up before we have started

Bad error by Etheridge and lucky by de Bruyne but a goal

Give me a relegation battle and our bouncing stadium any day of the week over champions league football and this shit atmosphere at the Etihad! Couldn’t be arsed sat there surrounded by glory supporters and tourists

Give me a relegation battle and our bouncing stadium any day of the week over champions league football and this shit atmosphere at the Etihad! Couldn’t be arsed sat there surrounded by glory supporters and tourists

The problem there is that they have 'expectations' and this is seen as an almost inconvenient 'run of the mill' game

The empty seats all over their stadium show the complacency that has set in amongst their support...

Sadly, Pep is not of the same mind and Man City are a class ahead of anyone in this League, inc. Liverpool

I would guess Man City have tougher training sessions than this. No way of guessing how many they will score if they actually decide to break into a sweat.

I would guess Man City have tougher training sessions than this. No way of guessing how many they will score if they actually decide to break into a sweat.

Thinking same they just using it as a run out even if we score they'll just up a gear to score again! And we cannot put 2 passes together thats not helping

I would guess Man City have tougher training sessions than this. No way of guessing how many they will score if they actually decide to break into a sweat.

Thinking same they just using it as a run out even if we score they'll just up a gear to score again! And we cannot put 2 passes together thats not helping

18% possession and zero shots. Painful to watch.

Don’t want to knock the lad too much because he’s been a brilliant servant to the club but Joe Ralls is so far out of his depth in this league and it shows. Also find Hoilett to be too ineffective. Yeah alright he’ll score a worldie once in ever 20 games but apart from that he seems to dribble round in circles and then pass backwards. Need to give NML a run out with his pace and power