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Cardiff remain unbeaten this pre season

Fri Jul 18, 2025 3:08 pm

Played 2x60 minutes vs League 2 Cambridge today
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Re: Cardiff remain unbeaten this pre season

Fri Jul 18, 2025 3:13 pm

Cardiff hammer League 2 Club Cambridge in friendly


Cardiff have now played a Malaysian team, 2 League 2 clubs and 1 Non League Club and are undefeated in all 4 games.



Cardiff City beat Cambridge United in convincing fashion in a behind-closed-doors pre-season friendly encounter this afternoon.


Brian Barry-Murphy's side welcomed the League Two side to their Vale of Glamorgan training base for two lots of 60-minute matches as they look to ramp their fitness up a fortnight out from the commencement of the League One campaign.


City used 23 players across the two matches, the first of which saw them hammer the U's 3-1. Join the Cardiff City breaking news and top stories WhatsApp community


Callum Robinson, who missed both games out in Spain owing to injury, and Isaak Davies, who also had a fitness niggle out in Murcia, were both on the scoresheet for City.

So, too, was Chris Willock, who dropped down to play for the under-21s against Yeovil Town earlier in the week.




Cardiff then beat Cambridge 2-0 in the second outing, with Yousef Salech continuing his fine form in front of goal. Cian Ashford, who Cardiff will hope can build on his excellent campaign last year, notched the second.

City next play against QPR in another behind-closed-doors encounter next Wednesday.

Re: Cardiff remain unbeaten this pre season

Fri Jul 18, 2025 3:29 pm

Decent that keep it up BBM and the team :ayatollah:

Re: Cardiff remain unbeaten this pre season

Fri Jul 18, 2025 3:31 pm

The QPR game is showing as a live stream on Wednesday as is the Notts County game on Saturday.

Good to see just about all of our forwards scoring today.

Re: Cardiff remain unbeaten this pre season

Fri Jul 18, 2025 3:38 pm

Game 1, 3-1 - goals from Davies, Robinson and Willock.


Game 2, 2-0 - goals from Salech and Cian Ashford.

Re: Cardiff remain unbeaten this pre season

Fri Jul 18, 2025 3:44 pm

Forever Blue wrote:Game 1, 3-1 - goals from Davies, Robinson and Willock.


Game 2, 2-0 - goals from Salech and Cian Ashford.


Did any of the U21 play? They are playing Ammanford tomorrow in the Welsh Cup, so they would need a full team if they wish to progress further.

Re: Cardiff remain unbeaten this pre season

Fri Jul 18, 2025 3:46 pm

got to keep hold of Salech and robbo at all costs TAN OUT

Re: Cardiff remain unbeaten this pre season

Fri Jul 18, 2025 3:53 pm

Good to see Robinson was involved.

Get the feeling he's staying.

Keep up the hard work BBM :thumbright:

Re: Cardiff remain unbeaten this pre season

Fri Jul 18, 2025 5:10 pm

Crazy really.

If we'd lost these games, this place would be full of propaganda that we are in trouble.

The negatives must be furious we've won two and drawn one :lol:



I repeat that friendly results don't mean anything but you just know some were waiting to jump on it if we'd lost them all.

Re: Cardiff remain unbeaten this pre season

Fri Jul 18, 2025 5:47 pm

worcester_ccfc wrote:Crazy really.

If we'd lost these games, this place would be full of propaganda that we are in trouble.

The negatives must be furious we've won two and drawn one :lol:



I repeat that friendly results don't mean anything but you just know some were waiting to jump on it if we'd lost them all.


FFS Ned get real will you.

Re: Cardiff remain unbeaten this pre season

Fri Jul 18, 2025 5:52 pm

Bakedalasker wrote:
worcester_ccfc wrote:Crazy really.

If we'd lost these games, this place would be full of propaganda that we are in trouble.

The negatives must be furious we've won two and drawn one :lol:



I repeat that friendly results don't mean anything but you just know some were waiting to jump on it if we'd lost them all.


FFS Ned get real will you.


I'm speaking facts.

Re: Cardiff remain unbeaten this pre season

Fri Jul 18, 2025 5:56 pm

worcester_ccfc wrote:
Bakedalasker wrote:
worcester_ccfc wrote:Crazy really.

If we'd lost these games, this place would be full of propaganda that we are in trouble.

The negatives must be furious we've won two and drawn one :lol:



I repeat that friendly results don't mean anything but you just know some were waiting to jump on it if we'd lost them all.


FFS Ned get real will you.


I'm speaking facts.


No you are not.

To say people are hoping we lose and must be furious becasue we won a couple friendly games against lower division teams is not speaking facts but being pathetic. Grow up FFS.

Re: Cardiff remain unbeaten this pre season

Fri Jul 18, 2025 5:58 pm

I’m more interested in how we are going to be set up, and the type of football we are going to be playing.

It’s hard to tell right now with so many games being behind closed doors, but the higher press that we’ve seen so far is encouraging.

Re: Cardiff remain unbeaten this pre season

Fri Jul 18, 2025 6:01 pm

Roath_Blue wrote:I’m more interested in how we are going to be set up, and the type of football we are going to be playing.

It’s hard to tell right now with so many games being behind closed doors, but the higher press that we’ve seen so far is encouraging.


TBH thats the only way I can see us returning to the Championship. Its if we are consistant doing it is the challenge.

Re: Cardiff remain unbeaten this pre season

Fri Jul 18, 2025 6:14 pm

Roath_Blue wrote:I’m more interested in how we are going to be set up, and the type of football we are going to be playing.

It’s hard to tell right now with so many games being behind closed doors, but the higher press that we’ve seen so far is encouraging.


It is encouraging but you should know by now that backing a manager on here is illegal :lol:

Re: Cardiff remain unbeaten this pre season

Fri Jul 18, 2025 6:46 pm

It’s a good encouraging start but I’m not getting carried away at this point.

We’re unbeaten during pre season, Salech is scoring, Rubin by all accounts has looked a different player, encouraging performances from Lawlor, Kpakio and Nyakuhwa and Robinson looks as if he’s interested and staying.

However pre season games against Southend in Spain are going to be very different to hostile away games in cold January against teams like Bradford. That’s when we’ll see the real characters and who will “cut the mustard”

I will make my judgement after 10 games or so but so far so good