MATCH THREAD: " CARDIFF CITY v NORWICH CITY " MATCH THREAD

CARDIFF CITY v NORWICH CITY
Saturday 30th July, 3pm
Sky Bet Championship
Cardiff City Stadium 


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Cardiff City XI: Allsop; Romeo, Ng, Kipre, Collins; Wintle, Sawyers, Rinomhota; Ojo, Watters, O'Dowda.

Subs: Alnwick, Nelson, Ralls, Sang, Whyte, Tanner, Harris.




A crowd of over 22,000 is expected


Norwich have sold over 1,500 tickets



CCFC TEAM NEWS:



Joe Ralls is fit.

Ebou Adams , Rubin Colwill and Isaak Davies are all out.

Ebou Adams at least 2 months out.






The Opposition's Manager - Dean Smith

Dean Smith has been in charge at Norwich since November 2021. Although he failed to keep them up, they did improve under his management.

He has previously been promoted from the Championship with Aston Villa and also took them to the EFL Cup Final.

Opposition Dangerous Players

Former Cardiff City loanee Jordan Hugill has been in good form for Norwich in pre-season.

Teemu Pukki is also bound to be a significant threat.

Previous Meeting 

Norwich beat us 2-1 in January 2021 in the Championship.

Team News - Predicted Line-Ups

As it's the opening match of the season, very difficult to predict the lineups.

Form - Last Three Competitive Games

As above, no relevant recent results to go off.

Match Odds

Cardiff City - 21/10
Norwich City - 5/4
Draw - 12/5

Predictions

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CCFC TEAM NEWS:

Ebou Adams , Joe Ralls , Rubin Colwill and Isaak Davies are all out.

Old habits die hard.
Chris Sutton co commentating on Celtic v Norwich said ‘Norwich won’t face a passing and controlling side like Celtic next Saturday; it’ll be Cardiff city with their direct, no nonsense style’
Do your homework before commenting on something you know nothing about, Chris

Old habits die hard.
Chris Sutton co commentating on Celtic v Norwich said ‘Norwich won’t face a passing and controlling side like Celtic next Saturday; it’ll be Cardiff city with their direct, no nonsense style’
Do your homework before commenting on something you know nothing about, Chris

Chris Sutton hates us so no surprise to hear him make ignorant, misinformed comments like that.

Celtic beat a strong Norwich side 2-0 earlier.

Old habits die hard.
Chris Sutton co commentating on Celtic v Norwich said ‘Norwich won’t face a passing and controlling side like Celtic next Saturday; it’ll be Cardiff city with their direct, no nonsense style’
Do your homework before commenting on something you know nothing about, Chris

Chris Sutton hates us so no surprise to hear him make ignorant, misinformed comments like that.

Sutton is an imbecile who hates anyone in blue.

3-2 to The Blooobirds

Old habits die hard.
Chris Sutton co commentating on Celtic v Norwich said ‘Norwich won’t face a passing and controlling side like Celtic next Saturday; it’ll be Cardiff city with their direct, no nonsense style’
Do your homework before commenting on something you know nothing about, Chris

Chris Sutton hates us so no surprise to hear him make ignorant, misinformed comments like that.

He really is a babbling chimp

Norwich win. Not an ideal first opponent when you have a brand new squad and no decent strikers.

Norwich win. Not an ideal first opponent when you have a brand new squad and no decent strikers.

Best time to be facing Norwich imo, they’re going to be up there so I’d imagine they’ll improve as the season goes on.

Norwich win. Not an ideal first opponent when you have a brand new squad and no decent strikers.

Best time to be facing Norwich imo, they’re going to be up there so I’d imagine they’ll improve as the season goes on.

I agree with you, I know they are a yoyo team but it generally takes relegated teams a while to get going

The Season Starts Soon ... Good Luck to CCFC This Season

Norwich win. Not an ideal first opponent when you have a brand new squad and no decent strikers.

Best time to be facing Norwich imo, they’re going to be up there so I’d imagine they’ll improve as the season goes on.

I agree, best to face Norwich early on, they usually get better and better as the season goes on in the Championship.

Old habits die hard.
Chris Sutton co commentating on Celtic v Norwich said ‘Norwich won’t face a passing and controlling side like Celtic next Saturday; it’ll be Cardiff city with their direct, no nonsense style’
Do your homework before commenting on something you know nothing about, Chris

Chris Sutton is a right James blunt anyway, no one cares what he has to say

Norwich win. Not an ideal first opponent when you have a brand new squad and no decent strikers.

Best time to be facing Norwich imo, they’re going to be up there so I’d imagine they’ll improve as the season goes on.

I agree, best to face Norwich early on, they usually get better and better as the season goes on in the Championship.

Difference this season is Norwich haven’t lost any major players. They know each other inside out so I think they will hit the ground running.

Old habits die hard.
Chris Sutton co commentating on Celtic v Norwich said ‘Norwich won’t face a passing and controlling side like Celtic next Saturday; it’ll be Cardiff city with their direct, no nonsense style’
Do your homework before commenting on something you know nothing about, Chris

Hopefully Dean Smith is also expecting us to have a 'direct, no nonsense style' and sets up accordingly. We could well catch them off guard if they haven't bothered paying attention to our pre-season.

Unlikely given the amount of prep in the modern game but would be nice.

Lets go direct and win 3.0 Happy with that

It wouldnt surprise me if we won and won easily.

Norwich will not always be a yoyo club and opening day fixtures often throw up surprises a pmenty.

With all the media hype and the excitement generated by the club, we should be looking at top six come the end of August.

Norwich City boss Dean Smith says Adam Idah remains nearly a month away from full fitness, despite his recent pre-season exploits.

The 21-year-old has been tipped for a big season with the Canaries after seeing a promising campaign last season ended prematurely by a knee injury.

He has since been working to build up his fitness over the summer, ahead of Saturday's opening day clash with Cardiff City.

But Smith says the forward remains a doubt to face the Bluebirds, despite watching him play 80 minutes against Hibernian in pre-season over the weekend.

“Adam Idah’s gone and got 80 minutes today," he said. "You can tell from his game time in Scotland that he needs that as he’s about three weeks behind where we’d like him at the moment, but he’s had a long time off with injury.”

Norwich's style should lend itself to our new style, really good going forward but will be far from the best defensive style we will see this season.

Norwich - Have been installed as the FAV to Win the League this season - Good Test for Us first up

Im really looking forward to the game
First game obv, plenty of new faces, good away attendance
Im going 2-1 Cardiff

Expecting a loss but if Cardiff can show some thing during the game i will leave happy. If we can put in a good 60 mins showing that we have changed i think thats not bad for our first game vs one of the promotion favs

Difficult to assess the team and which way we are going without 2 strikers waiting till the end of tranfer window how many games will we have played by then.

Norwich have sold so far 1,500 tickets so should be a good atmosphere in the away end, however, we want to see our new team getting a loud and proud Bluebird welcome, get your tickets now and be part of something special.

Come on Bluebirds 25,000 crowd

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Watching Burnley game and all can say fans better get use to being bored silly at games 2 mins without going outside their own half! Bet be same throughout championship. p

Really looking forward to tomorrow.
C'mon City.

Cardiff City have a few absentees. Ebou Adams is out for a number of months after ripping his pectoral muscle off the bone in a pre-season friendly against Cambridge United. He has had surgery on it and you can read more about it here.

Rubin Colwill and Isaak Davies are unavailable. They've missed most of pre-season and are back on the grass building up their fitness. The end of August is the expected return date for those two.

Joe Ralls is fully fit and ready to go as the new club skipper after missing the final pre-season friendly through injury.

For the visitors, new signings Isaac Hayden and Gabriel Sara are likely to be unavailable, while there will be a late call on Kieron Dowell. Ben Gibson (calf) and Sam Byram (thigh) also miss out this weekend. Tony Springett is also unavailable, having rolled his ankle.

What are the latest betting odds?

Cardiff City – 2/1

Draw – 9/4

Norwich City – 13/10

start well which today means not to lose.
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