MATCH THRE: “ CARDIFF CITY v ROTHERHAM UNITED " MATCH THREAD

CARDIFF CITY v ROTHERHAM UNITED
Saturday 16th August, 3pm
Sky Bet League One - Match 3
Cardiff City Stadium 




Pay on the day for both sets of Supporters

Rotherham bringing about 304 plus fans



Cardiff: Trott; Kpakio, Fish, Lawlor, Mafico; Wintle, Turnbull, R. Colwill; Tanner, Salech, Ashford.

Subs: Turner, Bagan, Chambers, J. Colwill, Davies, Willock, Robinson.




INJURY UPDATE:

NG and Robertson already out for about 10 days.

Daland being told to find another club.

Wintle nursing an injury 50/50

Fish carrying an injury









‘Perry Ng is about 10 days away and Alex Robertson is on a similar timescale with his return. The first game takes a lot out of different players for different reasons. I think there were a few who were stiff and sore, but we have a clean bill of health.’

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About Rotherham United

Rotherham are in their second consecutive season in League One, having been relegated from the Championship in 2023/24.

Last season they finished 13th.

They have not played below the top three tiers since 2013.

Club Connections

Jordan Hugill had a loan spell with us in 2022, scoring four goals in 18 games. He now plays for Rotherham.

Kion Etete, Leo Fortune-West and Dillon Phillips have also played for both clubs.

The Opposition's Manager

Matt Hamshaw was appointed Rotherham manager in March this year.

This is his first managerial role, although he did take charge of two Derby County games as caretaker manager.

He has held several coaching roles at Rotherham.

Opposition Dangerous Players

Sam Nombe scored 14 league goals last season and already has two this season.

Sean Raggett is an accomplished defender at this level.

Referee

Thomas Parsons will take charge of this game.

Last season, he took charge of 35 games. The majority of those games were in League One and League Two.

In those 35 matches, he showed 164 yellow cards and 8 red cards - an average of 4.6 yellow cards per game.

Head To Head - last five meetings 

We have won three of our last five against Rotherham.

Although they did win the last meeting, when they beat us 5-2 on the final day of the 2023/24 Championship season.

Team News - Predicted Line-Ups

Cardiff City: Trott, Kpakio, Lawlor, Chambers, Bagan, Wintle, J Colwill, R Colwill, Tanner, Willock, Salech

Rotherham United: Dawson, Hall, Rafferty, Raggett, Agbaire, James, Kelly, Powell, Gore, Nombe, Hugill

Last Game

In our last league game, we drew 0-0 away at Port Vale last Thursday. We then won 2-1 at home to Swindon in the Carabao Cup on Tuesday.

Rotherham lost 1-0 at Stevenage last Saturday and won on penalties at Salford in the cup on Tuesday.

Match Odds

Cardiff City - 4/6
Rotherham United - 7/2
Draw - 9/4

Predictions

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Pay on the day for both sets of Supporters

‘Perry Ng is about 10 days away and Alex Robertson is on a similar timescale with his return. The first game takes a lot out of different players for different reasons. I think there were a few who were stiff and sore, but we have a clean bill of health.’

3-1 city

Sat Aug 2nd Cardiff City 2 Peterborough 1 Crowd 19,615 Away Supporter 1,119


Thurs Aug 7 Port Vale 0 Cardiff City 0 Crowd 9,791 Away Support ,2193


Sat Aug 16 - Cardiff City v Rotherham United


Tue Aug 19 - AFC Wimbledon v Cardiff City

Sat Aug 23 - Luton T v Cardiff City 12.30pm, live on Sky

Sat Aug 30 - Plymouth Argyle (H) - 12.30pm, live on Sky





Sat Sep 6 - Burton Albion (H)

Sat Sep 13 - Stockport County (A)

Sat Sep 20 - Bradford City (H)

Sat Sep 27 - Wigan Athletic (A)

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2-0 BLUEBIRDS

Hugill will be one to watch if we decide to play out from the back, he will press all game, and with how shaky we are at the back sometimes may be a dangerous tactic.

We need to stop this "Fannying About" inside our own penalty area.

We will concede more goals than scoring them with this type of messing around.

We need to stop this "Fannying About" inside our own penalty area.

We will concede more goals than scoring them with this type of messing around.

Chambers to blame did it at port vale,
and did it again against Swindon this time he got caught out,

Tippy tappy foot on the ball back to the keeper going nowhere like walking football.

Brian Barry-Murphy:


"You've seen signs of how I want us to play in the first three games, but not enough. I want to see more and more.

They scored with a breakaway goal today with their only shot on target. The tendency for a player then is to play things a bit safe or go backwards, but we want a team that's going to step forward all the time. No matter what stadium we're in, the style of play needs to be evident.

Tonight Nathan was still looking for short solutions when they went man to man, that meant the pass to Ryan Wintle especially was under a lot of pressure.

We're not stupid - when the pressure from the opponents is so high then we have to play a bit longer and get to our forward as quickly as possible.

That's what I'm talking about. As we go through training and playing, the players will naturally realise when that's occurring. Then we'll go into Yousef's chest and turning the opponents towards their goal."

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Brian Barry-Murphy:


"Rotherham will give us a stern examination of how good we want to be.

They have a lot of experienced players, probably the opposite of us. There are players in their team that I played with.

They'll be aware of what our strengths are but they'll also think they can give us a test that we won't be able to cope with.

We have to show that we've improved since Port Vale. I'm not saying they're the same as Port Vale, but the challenge is going to be similar and we have to show that we've improved from week 1 to week 3 or whatever it is.

Those steps are key to improving right through the season.

Obviously we're improving but we're not losing sight of the fact that we're here to win games."

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Cardiff come up against Kion Etete's Rotherham United this weekend, however the striker of course will be unable to play against his parent club.

Etete, who is in fact injured anyway, signed a two-year deal at Cardiff before being loaned out to Bolton Wanderers in the second half of last season, however he endured a torrid time with the Trotters.

Etete a few months ago was given an unbelievable New 2 Year Contract by The Transfer Committee.

INJURY UPDATE:

NG and Robertson already out for about 10 days.

Daland being told to find another club.

Wintle nursing an injury 50/50

Fish carrying an injury

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3-1 to BBM's Bluebirds

That Nombe is a handful up front for Rotherham, bullied the Port Vale centre backs opening day and will have a field day against our centre backs if they play like they have the first three games.

That's where the game will be won and lost for me but hopefully the defence will learn from their previous mistakes.

It's not about been overly physical, sometimes it's about reading the game and decision making.

This needless diving into tackles and selling yourself needs to stop, all it does is open us up if you miss the player or run the risk of getting sent off.

Lawlor to come in at centre back and move Chambers to his proper position CDM.

I would've dropped Wintle for this game despite the injury he has been poor since opening day.

The only other change I'd make is Salech for Robinson. Ashford and Davies deserve to keep their places on the wings.

2-1 City Salech double.

I watched Rotherham against Stevenage last weekend. Both teams seemed to be quite solid and the game was always going to be won by who got the first goal which went to Stevenage.

Both defences were quite solid and it was a moment of lapsed concentration that cost Rotherham the game. I thought they would get the equaliser as they had our former player Hugil but tbh he was disappointing. It was an entertaining game for the neutral and it will be a difficult game they will give us this weekend.

Boiling hot day - 0-0 draw.

Cardiff come up against Kion Etete's Rotherham United this weekend, however the striker of course will be unable to play against his parent club.

Etete, who is in fact injured anyway, signed a two-year deal at Cardiff before being loaned out to Bolton Wanderers in the second half of last season, however he endured a torrid time with the Trotters.

Etete a few months ago was given an unbelievable New 2 Year Contract by The Transfer Committee.

Shame, I was hoping he would play against us! Give our keeper an easy afternoon.

Hugill will be one to watch if we decide to play out from the back, he will press all game, and with how shaky we are at the back sometimes may be a dangerous tactic.

He's 33 now and a big lump, can't see him pressing all game.

I rememeber his goal on his debut for us against Forest, ball over the top, outpaced the defence and slotted it past the keeper. Hopefully he can't do that anymore...!

I watched Rotherham against Stevenage last weekend. Both teams seemed to be quite solid and the game was always going to be won by who got the first goal which went to Stevenage.

Both defences were quite solid and it was a moment of lapsed concentration that cost Rotherham the game. I thought they would get the equaliser as they had our former player Hugil but tbh he was disappointing. It was an entertaining game for the neutral and it will be a difficult game they will give us this weekend.

Similar test to Port Vale I think, in terms of style.

Like the manager says, we have to show we've improved since Port Vale if we want to win.

Reality checks in:

Rotherham for todays game have only Sold 304 Tickets / it’s also pay on the day.

Many many teams will bring that low and even lower:
Stevenage, Wimbledon, Burton, Doncaster etc

3-0

Hi forget the wingers Tanner and Willock repeatedly given poor ratings play 442 , bring King in move Chambers in midfield, for his probably last game use Fish and Daland as centre backs look to under21s ie Perrett etc well that’s my opinion

I watched Rotherham against Stevenage last weekend. Both teams seemed to be quite solid and the game was always going to be won by who got the first goal which went to Stevenage.

Both defences were quite solid and it was a moment of lapsed concentration that cost Rotherham the game. I thought they would get the equaliser as they had our former player Hugil but tbh he was disappointing. It was an entertaining game for the neutral and it will be a difficult game they will give us this weekend.

Yeah I watched bulk of that game last weekend too.
Thought nommbe looked dangerous more than hugill. He went off with hamstring or groin if I remember. Any news on if he's fit today

3-1 as long as chambers isn’t played in cb.

Chambers dropped to bench... Should be a good omen for us

Cardiff: Trott; Kpakio, Fish, Lawlor, Mafico; Wintle, Turnbull, R. Colwill; Tanner, Salech, Ashford.

Subs: Turner, Bagan, Chambers, J. Colwill, Davies, Willock, Robinson.

Bluebirds

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Bluebirds

Rubin the Captain