MATCH THREAD:" CARDIFF CITY v NOTTINGHAM FOREST " MATCH THRE

CARDIFF CITY v NOTTINGHAM FOREST
Tuesday 25th February, 7.45pm
Sky Bet Championship
Cardiff City Stadium 

Lee Tomlin out for up to two months so will again be unavailable for this match

Its pay on the night for both sets of fans


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Albert Adomah ineligible to play against his parent club


TEAM NEWS:


Joe Ralls is back

Lee Tomlin out injured for up to 8 weeks.

Connolly, Isaac Vassell , Greg Cunningham and Mendez-Laing are all still injured.

Brad Smith not totally fit, but might make the bench v Nottingham Forest


I can't get to Cardiff City Stadium, is the match on TV?

Yes, the match is live on Sky Sports

About Nottingham Forest

Nottingham Forest Football Club, often referred to as Forest, is a professional football club based in West Bridgford, Nottinghamshire, England. Since 1898 Forest have played their home matches at the City Ground. They currently compete in the EFL Championship, the second tier of the English football league system.

Forest have won 1 League title, 2 FA Cups, 4 League Cups, 1 FA Charity Shield, 2 European Cups, and 1 UEFA Super Cup. The club has competed in the top two tiers of English football since their admission to the Football League, except for five seasons spent in the third tier. Their most successful period was under the management of Brian Clough and Peter Taylor in the late 1970s and early 1980s.

In Clough's last decade at the club, Forest won the 1989 and 1990 League Cups and were losing finalists in the 1991 FA Cup Final, before relegation from the Premier League in 1993. Upon an immediate return Forest finished third in the Premier League in 1995, before the club suffered relegation again in 1997 and, after a brief return, once more in 1999. Forest have not been back in the Premier League since.

Forest contest the Nottingham derby with city rivals Notts County, however as Forest have predominantly played in higher leagues than their neighbours fixtures between the two clubs have been rare in recent history. As such their main rivalry is with Derby County, and matches between the two clubs are known as the East Midlands derby.

Previous Meeting 

We beat Forest in November with Nathaniel Mendez-Laing getting the only goal.

Team News - Predicted Line-Ups

Cardiff City: Smithies, Richards, Nelson, Morrison, Bennett, Vaulks, Pack, Murphy, Hoilett, Paterson, Ward

Nottingham Forest: Samba, Cash, Figueriedo, Worall, Rebeiro, Watson, Sow, Ameobi, Lolley, Silva, Grabban

Form - Last Three Games   

Stoke City 2-0 Cardiff City
Cardiff City 2-2 Wigan Athletic
Huddersfield Town 0-3 Cardiff City

Nottingham Forest 0-0 QPR
West Bromwich Albion 2-2 Nottingham Forest
Nottingham Forest 0-1 Charlton Athletic

Match Odds

Cardiff City - 13/10
Nottingham Forest - 21/10
Draw - 9/4

Predictions

Post your predictions below 

1-1 Forest are solid and on a good run.
Hoping for a bit of a response after the performance at Stoke.

No tomlin no adomah
Big ask, and it gets tougher still saturday with the best footballing side in the championship imo brentford.

City to win. Positive response to yesterday's performance. Taking us to within 3 points of Forest

Fancy Forest 3-1 unfortunately.

Team News:




Albert Adomah ineligible to play against his parent club


Joe Ralls is back

Lee Tomlin out injured for up to 8 weeks.

Connolly, Isaac Vassell , Greg Cunningham and Mendez-Laing are all still injured.

Brad Smith not totally fit, but might make the bench v Nottingham Forest

We couldn't beat an egg at the moment.

Has to be an easy win for Forest sadly.

These were the sort of games when the chips were down where Warnock would pull a rabbit out of the hat and get a win. He seemed to thrive in adversity. What will Harris conjure up? 1 v 1 draw, at best.

Tomlin has been carrying us with his goals, assists and creativity. I can see us going back to a few weeks ago now, flat.

Come on the boys

We've got a great record against forest so why should it change

Tough side with a good defence but I have a feeling we will sneak a 1-0 win as we have a good record against them recently for some reason.

The early Cardiff City vs Nottingham Forest team news

The Bluebirds welcome Forest to Cardiff City Stadium tonight and they will have to be creative if they are to fill the void left by two potent attacking threats



Cardiff City will have to fill two sizeable holes in their forward line against Nottingham Forest tonight with both Lee Tomlin and Albert Adomah missing.

As we know, Tomlin is set to miss up to eight weeks owing to a knee injury he sustained in training last week, but it will be a double blow being without Adomah.

The Ghanaian winger has added real impetus to the Bluebirds' attacking ranks since joining on loan on deadline day last month and has been an instant hit among fans.

But he will be ineligible to play tonight, given the game is against his parent club.

It means Neil Harris has the unenviable task of replacing both Tomlin and Adomah in the starting XI, with the Bluebirds desperately needing a win after their play-off hopes took a hit in defeat by Stoke City last weekend.

How Harris sets up his side tonight will be very interesting. He opted for Callum Paterson in behind Danny Ward at the bet365 Stadium, but the gamble didn't pay off.

It is likely we will see the return of Paterson up front, a position in which he has thrived in recent months, with Joe Ralls potentially slotting into a more advanced midfield role, ahead of the established Marlon Pack and Will Vaulks partnership.


Joe Ralls (R) might get his first start since December tonight
Gavin Whyte is expected to slot in with Adomah unavailable as a like-for-like replacement.

The other area of intrigue is at full-back. Both Joe Bennett and Jazz Richards have racked up the minutes in recent weeks and are perhaps in need of rotation, with games now coming thick and fast.

January signings Dion Sanderson and Brad Smith are both yet to feature for the Bluebirds, however that could certainly change this week.

Nathaniel Mendez-Laing, Isaac Vassell and Matthew Connolly are the long-term absentees.

What are the odds?

The Bluebirds have been made slight favourites for the clash.

Cardiff are priced at 11/8 for the win.


The draw meanwhile, is priced at 23/10, while a Forest win is currently 2/1 (odds via SkyBet).

For tonight's visitors, meanwhile, there are doubts over Samba Sow (knee), Sammy Ameobi (hips) and Lewis Grabban (knee), who has been in incredible goalscoring form this season with 16 in all competitions.


Nuno da Costa will definitely miss the clash with a muscle injury, too.

Tendayi Darikwa is a long-term absentee owing to an ACL injury he sustained last summer.

Who is the referee?

The referee for tonight's match is Stephen Martin.

This will be the first time he has refereed a Bluebirds game since the 2-2 draw with Reading in December 2017.

We’ll slip into mid table territory and further down after our next half a dozen games.

Thankfully we’ve got enough points.

The rest of the season is going to be tedious tiresome and a chore.

0-0

Just been on Forest forums they are not expecting to win even knowing about tomlin and adomah.

We’ll slip into mid table territory and further down after our next half a dozen games.

Thankfully we’ve got enough points.

The rest of the season is going to be tedious tiresome and a chore.

That’s the spirit

Confident of a win tonight cmon the city!

1-0 city please.

Stadium absolutely dead and empty

C,mon City

We look like we are on the beach already no shape whatsoever looking like a tough night no options when in possession i.e Glatzel’s terrible shot as I type

Cold, damp with zero atmosphere. It’s hard to love City at the moment and I’m seriously considering going home at half time.

Frustrating as Tomlin would probably be capable of scoring this free kick

Glatzel best player so far

Sanderson so far for me can’t remember seeing overlaps from a Cardiff fullback in a while

Can someone tell Hoilett we’re the team in blue not red.