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ONE CHANGE: " CARDIFF CITY TEAM TONIGHT "

Tue Dec 29, 2020 6:47 pm

One change - @sparkyharris11 starts.



Well, that's the team and I must say I am very surprised to have seen only one change to the team which lost to Brentford.

Keeping the same back four once again is a tremendous show of faith to a defensive unit which has shipped nine goals in four matches. I thought it was time for Bacuna to be put in midfield and find another means of covering that right-back position.

But Neil Harris has seen it fit to go another way and lets hope he has got the call right.

I thought it was time for Mark Harris to be brought back into the fold, but it is interesting it is alongside Glatzel as opposed to instead of him.

Harry Wilson will once again be pushed on to the right then, I presume. He hasn't had the desired impact at No.10 or on the wing, really, so it is difficult to decipher what his strongest position really is.

Lets hope tonight is the night for the Wales international.


Benkovic yet again does Not start

STARTING 11

Alex Smithies
Leandro Bacuna
Sean Morrison
Curtis Nelson
Joe Bennett
Will Vaulks
Joe Ralls
Sheyi Ojo
Harry Wilson
Mark Harris
Robert Glatzel

SUBSTITUTES

Dillon Phillips
Filip Benkovic
Joel Bagan
Greg Cunningham
Marlon Pack
Keenan Patten
Gavin Whyte
Junior Hoilett
Josh Murphy

Re: " CARDIFF CITY TEAM TONIGHT "

Tue Dec 29, 2020 6:48 pm

Oh ha ha no surprises again.

Lose tonight and he will be gone

Re: " CARDIFF CITY TEAM TONIGHT "

Tue Dec 29, 2020 6:48 pm

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Re: " CARDIFF CITY TEAM TONIGHT "

Tue Dec 29, 2020 6:49 pm

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Re: " CARDIFF CITY TEAM TONIGHT "

Tue Dec 29, 2020 6:50 pm

If ever there was a game to make some changes surely tonight would be it?!

Re: " CARDIFF CITY TEAM TONIGHT "

Tue Dec 29, 2020 6:50 pm

He moans about the defence , and guess what same defence again !!

Re: ONE CHANGE: " CARDIFF CITY TEAM TONIGHT "

Tue Dec 29, 2020 6:51 pm

442 by the look of it unless I’m mistaken? A classic little and large strike partnership. Hopefully this can be a game where we can get a few goals on the score sheet, I’m going with 3-0 :ayatollah:

Re: ONE CHANGE: " CARDIFF CITY TEAM TONIGHT "

Tue Dec 29, 2020 6:54 pm

He should be sacked same back four again when will he learn

Re: ONE CHANGE: " CARDIFF CITY TEAM TONIGHT "

Tue Dec 29, 2020 6:54 pm

3 losses in 4 conceding 9 goals. Moans about defence conceding goals but does nothing about it. Harris doesnt do himself any favours at all. He needs a win tonight or he could be off.

Re: " CARDIFF CITY TEAM TONIGHT "

Tue Dec 29, 2020 6:55 pm

nojac wrote:He moans about the defence , and guess what same defence again !!

Yup and if every single one of our back four has a shocker tonight the likelihood is that it’ll be same again for Saturday. Imo shouldn’t be picking Harris either, I’d prefer either Hoillett or Murphy at 10.

Re: ONE CHANGE: " CARDIFF CITY TEAM TONIGHT "

Tue Dec 29, 2020 6:56 pm

we are playing wycombe, i hope we get hammered if it means harris gets the bullet and a new manager gets rid of 6 or 7 of the first teamers harris plays.

how the hell does bacuna keep getting picked, they giving each other one?

Re: ONE CHANGE: " CARDIFF CITY TEAM TONIGHT "

Tue Dec 29, 2020 6:57 pm

Playing same players every game and expecting a different result is madness.
He can’t say there tired then not use players off bench we have 5 subs so team should be fresh.
Lose tonight and he deserves to go,I have lost all faith in him.
Expecting a win tonight against the worst team in championship.

Re: ONE CHANGE: " CARDIFF CITY TEAM TONIGHT "

Tue Dec 29, 2020 6:58 pm

arri potta wrote:we are playing wycombe, i hope we get hammered if it means harris gets the bullet and a new manager gets rid of 6 or 7 of the first teamers harris plays.

how the hell does bacuna keep getting picked, they giving each other one?


I have to agree with you about being hammered though I’m not happy if it happens. He’s out of his depth and I’m fed up with his excuses.

Re: ONE CHANGE: " CARDIFF CITY TEAM TONIGHT "

Tue Dec 29, 2020 6:58 pm

Individual errors, maybe down to tiredness or fatigue?

Of course not, same team. Not quite, good move giving Glatzel help not sure which one should be the main striker. Although Wilson on the right reduces his touches. Not sure what Ojo has on Harris, but i think he is highly ineffective.

Re: ONE CHANGE: " CARDIFF CITY TEAM TONIGHT "

Tue Dec 29, 2020 6:59 pm

Lose 6-0 and he won't be sacked.
He will be here until the season ends if it ever ends.

Re: ONE CHANGE: " CARDIFF CITY TEAM TONIGHT "

Tue Dec 29, 2020 7:01 pm

Harris you can’t even think about less than 3pts tonight or v Rotherham, no
More excuses :thumbright: :bluebird: :bluebird:

Re: ONE CHANGE: " CARDIFF CITY TEAM TONIGHT "

Tue Dec 29, 2020 7:01 pm

A few people hoping we get hammered on here. Why don't you go support someone else then, I heard there's a team down the road that could do with your support.

Re: ONE CHANGE: " CARDIFF CITY TEAM TONIGHT "

Tue Dec 29, 2020 7:01 pm

Neil Harris says we weren't good enough and criticises the defence.

Tonight makes one change, and sticks with the same defence.

Even more baffling considering short time since our last game.

If we don't win tonight there will, rightly, be huge pressure on him to go.

Re: ONE CHANGE: " CARDIFF CITY TEAM TONIGHT "

Tue Dec 29, 2020 7:03 pm

I'm convinced that he thinks it will just happen and that players who have been abysmal for far too many games this season will just gel and be unbeatable. City 0 Chair boys 3, Akinfenwa Hatrick, Harris Out!!!!!

Re: ONE CHANGE: " CARDIFF CITY TEAM TONIGHT "

Tue Dec 29, 2020 7:04 pm

Where is the incentive to up their game....the defence are under no pressure cos Harris keeps picking them.....he has got to go..way out of his depth

Re: ONE CHANGE: " CARDIFF CITY TEAM TONIGHT "

Tue Dec 29, 2020 7:05 pm

Welshman in CA wrote:A few people hoping we get hammered on here. Why don't you go support someone else then, I heard there's a team down the road that could do with your support.


put your dummy back in, 1977 I started home and away and europe, when we get shite managers, getting bad results is the only way to get rid of them, everytime!

Re: ONE CHANGE: " CARDIFF CITY TEAM TONIGHT "

Tue Dec 29, 2020 7:05 pm

Not the right team tonight as a few of you have said. Glatzel is not the target man Moore is and doesn’t need a little man next to him as he isn’t that physical or great in the air. Should have kept Wilson in the 10 and freshened up elsewhere a bit. Wilson on the right of a 4 is wasted as has to defend so much that we only see him in the opposition third when he’s taking set pieces. Having said that happy to be proved wrong and Wycombe are bottom so let’s see

Re: ONE CHANGE: " CARDIFF CITY TEAM TONIGHT "

Tue Dec 29, 2020 7:05 pm

same old same old he hasn’t the bottle to change team same excuses hope we win but painting over cracks :old: :old:

Re: ONE CHANGE: " CARDIFF CITY TEAM TONIGHT "

Tue Dec 29, 2020 7:07 pm

dorsetblue wrote:I'm convinced that he thinks it will just happen and that players who have been abysmal for far too many games this season will just gel and be unbeatable. City 0 Chair boys 3, Akinfenwa Hatrick, Harris Out!!!!!


for sentimental purpose I would love Ainsworth to manage us and bring Akinfenwa with him, as part of his management team - then some of our overpaid prima donnas would not hand around :laughing6: :laughing6:

Re: ONE CHANGE: " CARDIFF CITY TEAM TONIGHT "

Tue Dec 29, 2020 7:08 pm

They should beat Wycombe - playing at 50% !!!

Re: ONE CHANGE: " CARDIFF CITY TEAM TONIGHT "

Tue Dec 29, 2020 7:09 pm

Forever Blue wrote:They should beat Wycombe - playing at 50% !!!


correct, and seeing as 4 or 5 of our team play at 50% every game, they have no excuse!!!!

Re: ONE CHANGE: " CARDIFF CITY TEAM TONIGHT "

Tue Dec 29, 2020 7:12 pm

Welshman in CA wrote:A few people hoping we get hammered on here. Why don't you go support someone else then, I heard there's a team down the road that could do with your support.


Your opinion and your out voted on this thread.

A new comer obviously some people have watched dross for years. We say what we see.

Re: ONE CHANGE: " CARDIFF CITY TEAM TONIGHT "

Tue Dec 29, 2020 7:13 pm

Forever Blue wrote:They should beat Wycombe - playing at 50% !!!


50% I’ll revise my score.

3-1 to Wycombe

Re: ONE CHANGE: " CARDIFF CITY TEAM TONIGHT "

Tue Dec 29, 2020 7:13 pm

TEAM NEWS

Wycombe XI: Allsop; Grimmer, Tafazolli, Knight, Jacobson; Wheeler Thompson; McCleary, Horgan, Mehmeti; Ikpeazu.

Subs: Stockdale, Bloomfield, Kashket, Akinfenwa, Charles, Onyedinma, Adeniran, Samuel, McCarthy.






Cardiff City XI: Smithies; Bacuna, Morrison, Nelson, Bennett; Wilson, Vaulks, Ralls. Ojo; Harris, Glatzel.

Subs: Phillips, Benkovic, Bagan, Cunningham, Pack, Patten, Whyte, Murphy, Hoilett.

Re: ONE CHANGE: " CARDIFF CITY TEAM TONIGHT "

Tue Dec 29, 2020 7:20 pm

WestCoastBlue wrote:442 by the look of it unless I’m mistaken? A classic little and large strike partnership. Hopefully this can be a game where we can get a few goals on the score sheet, I’m going with 3-0 :ayatollah:


It's not the classic little and large partnership up front. Yes physically they are little and large but in a classic little and large the large bloke is a big centre forward who is good in the air and gets on the end of crosses and holds the ball up well say Keifer Moore. The little one thing is a nippy little goal scorer who makes runs into the box feeds off the large one like say Chorpa. What we have is a fake little and large who can be quite good in their own way but ain't the classic little and large.