MATCH THREAD “ CARDIFF CITY v CHELTENHAM TOWN " MATCH THREAD

CARDIFF CITY v CHELTENHAM TOWN
Tuesday 26th August, 7.45pm
Carabao Cup Second Round
Cardiff City Stadium 


BBM will change a number of players from the victory at Luton

It’s pay on the night for both sets of fans.




Injury Update :

BBM:

"David Turnbull has hurt his groin, but it was when he was passing the ball, so my experience would suggest that's not too serious," Barry-Murphy said after the Hatters win.

"David has had a really positive impact in the last couple of weeks so fingers crossed it won't be too long.“


“Alex Robertson and Perry NG will play against Cheltenham on Tuesday night, how long they both play for we will see as they have been out for a long time.”


Ollie Tanner will be back in four months.

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About Cheltenham Town

Cheltenham are in their second successive season in League Two, having been relegated from League One in 2024.

They finished 15th last season.

They have had a torrid start in the league this season with no points from their five games. They've scored one and conceded 11.

Club Connections

Joel Colwill was on loan at Cheltenham last season.

The Opposition's Manager

Michael Flynn is the Cheltenham manager.

He was previously at Newport and was linked with the Cardiff City job several times.

Opposition Dangerous Players

George Miller scored nine league goals last season.

In the league last season, Jordan Thomas scored eight goals and had two assists.

Referee

Waiting for the match referee to be confirmed.

Head To Head - last five meetings 

We have won three of our last five meetings against Cheltenham.

But three of those five were friendlies.

We won the last competitive game 2-1 - a third tier match at Ninian Park in 2003.

Team News - Predicted Line-Ups

Both teams are expected to make changes from their league game.

Last Game

We won 1-0 at Luton on Saturday. In the last round of the cup, we beat Swindon at home.

Cheltenham beat Exeter in the last round. They lost 1-0 at home to Barnet in League Two on Saturday.

Match Odds

Cardiff City - 4/9
Cheltenham Town - 5/1
Draw - 3/1

Predictions

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BBM will change a number of players from the victory at Luton

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Turner
Ng, chambers, fish, bagan
mafico, Eli king, wintle
davies, Robinson, asford

Strong enough team with lots of our main players gaining rest time, would be good to give robbo the start aswell to build his confidence and let salech rest as I think league one has surprised him this season.

We are desperate for a new left back to cover and give bagan a challenge, back up centre back considering daaland is nowhere to be seen and a new cm and winger. potentially get Alex Robertson off the bench but I'm unsure if he will be back in time.

3-1 city.

Let's be honest, we should be able to field a much weakened team than normal and win this match.
Cheltenham, rock bottom of league 2 with five defeats out of five in the league, with 1 goal for and 11 against.
Their confidence levels are poor according to their manager and the fans are on their back.
Certainly we should rest many of our first choice 11 players and have a strong bench if needed.

Turner
Ng, chambers, fish, bagan
mafico, Eli king, wintle
davies, Robinson, asford

Strong enough team with lots of our main players gaining rest time, would be good to give robbo the start aswell to build his confidence and let salech rest as I think league one has surprised him this season.

We are desperate for a new left back to cover and give bagan a challenge, back up centre back considering daaland is nowhere to be seen and a new cm and winger. potentially get Alex Robertson off the bench but I'm unsure if he will be back in time.

Mafico, King and Wintle are all basically number 6's so not sure that line up would work. Mafico in for Bagan as a makeshift leftback again might be an idea to give the lad some more experience in there as emergency backup.

King for Wintle. Robertson will be getting game time. I'd like to see Nyakuwha start as well.

I'd go for:

4-2-3-1

Turner
Mafico, Chambers, Daland (if he is still in the building), NG
King, J Collwill
Nyakuwha, Robertson, Ashford
Davies

(edit - just to note I honestly see Davies as a striker not a winger and he should be given game time up top)

Bench (think it is 9?)
Salech
Robinson
WIllock
Fish
Lawlor
Wintle
Bagan
Rubin Collwill
Trott

What about Giles? thought he was a LB?

I think there will be a few changes but not as many as people think bbm seems to want to build a winning mentality so I think he will go quite strong tonight

Turner

NG. Lawlor. Chambers. Mafico

King J colwill

Davies. Robertson. Willock

Salech

What about Giles? thought he was a LB?

Good shout - forgot about him.

Come on City

Joel has a shot saved early on

Good cross by Ng but nobody can tap it in

Salech hits the bar

What channel can it be found on the firestick?

Turner nearly makes a blunder but Mafico does well to clear it up

1-0 City

Great individual goal by Isaak Davies on the counter attack

GOAL! USAAK DAVIES!

What a great run and goal to open proceedings!

LATST SCORE: CARDIFF CITY 0 - 0 CHELTENHAM TOWN (11 minutes)
Bluebird scorer: Isaak Davies, 11 minutes

Happy Days - connected as soon as ball hit the net

Cheltenham have a shot which is a straightforward save for Turner

Salech free kick is saved by the goalkeeper

Good play by Salech but Davies' shot goes well over

Cheltenham cross is deflected for a corner

Corner is cleared

Robinson is getting beaten to challenges too easily

Cross is cleared by the Cheltenham keeper

Good play by Davies again

Nyakuhwa shot saved

We should be at least three goals ahead of the moment with some great moves!

Nwakuhwa then with a splendid run but the shots is cleared

LATST SCORE: CARDIFF CITY 0 - 0 CHELTENHAM TOWN (25 minutes)
Bluebird scorer: Isaak Davies, 21 minutes

Salech through on goal and pulled back by a defender

Nothing given

Good play by Joel and Nyakuhwa but Salech can't tap it in

Robinson shot deflected behind for a corner