Cardiff City boss on Sheffield Wednesday's ‘bizarre circumstances’ ahead of opening clash
Cardiff City manager, Neil Harris, says Sheffield Wednesdays’ situation is ‘bizarre’ given the 12-point deduction as the two teams prepare to lock horns on the opening day of the Championship.
Sheffield Star
By Joe Crann
Sunday , 23rd August 2020.
The Owls will face Cardiff away from home on September 12 as the 2020/21 league season gets underway, and Harris admits that he’s still unsure whether or not they’ve been handed a good start to the campaign or not.
While Garry Monk’s Wednesday face the Bluebirds, Watford, Bristol City, Queens Park Rangers and Birmingham City as their opening fixtures, Cardiff have got SWFC, Nottingham Forest, Reading, Blackburn Rovers and Preston North End.
Ahead of that opening game, Harris told his club’s official website, “I think it is an exciting day for everybody. It’s Sheffield Wednesday for us, which will offer a stern test. It is bizarre circumstances for them, starting on -12 but they have an experienced manager, who knows these parts very well from his time at Swansea.
“You don’t always know what to expect on opening day. Garry’s teams are always organised. They finished last season in a 3-5-2 formation and that will be interesting to see whether they stick to that.
"You look at the fixtures. You look at Sheffield Wednesday at home and Forest away and it goes on and on. You try and work out if it is a good start? Is it not? What’s Christmas like? What’s Easter like?
“Overall, you just think: ‘what a brilliant league. What a brilliant league. We’ve got a couple of weeks of pre-season first to look at ourselves.”
Before that encounter, though, Monk’s side will head off to Loughborough University for a preseason camp where they will face Leicester City in a friendly on August 29th.
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