TEAM NEWS: " CARDIFF CITY v EXETER CITY " MATCH THREAD

CARDIFF CITY v EXETER CITY
Friday 26th December, 3pm
Sky Bet League One - Match 21
Cardiff City Stadium 



Crowd expected to be over 22,000


Both sets of fans can pay on the day for this 3pm kick off on Boxing Day

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About Exeter City

Exeter City are now in their fourth successive season in League One, having been promoted from League Two in 2022.

Last season they finished 16th.

They are currently 20th, with 23 points from 20 games.

Club Connections

Josh Magennis plays for Exeter and previously played for us.

The Opposition's Manager

Gary Caldwell has been Exeter manager since October 2022.

He previously managed Wigan, Chesterfield and Partick Thistle.

As a player, he was best known for his time at Celtic.

Opposition Dangerous Players

Ilmari Niskanen impressed in their win on Saturday, scoring his first league goal of the season. He has five assists in the league.

Jayden Wareham has scored six league goals this season.

Referee

Referee should be confirmed early this week.

Head To Head - Last Five Meetings

Exeter have beaten us just once in the last five meetings, with us winning three of those games.

We played them away in the Vertu Trophy earlier this season and won 1-0.

Team News - Predicted Line-Ups

Cardiff City: Turner, Ng, Fish, Lawlor, Bagan, Wintle, Robertson, Kellyman, Ashford, Willock, Salech

Exeter City: Whitworth, McMillan, Sweeney, Fitzwater, Woodhouse, Niskanen, Brierley, Doyle-Hayes, Aitchison, Cox, Wareham

Last Game

We lost 2-1 at Lincoln on Saturday.

On the same day, Exeter won 3-0 at home to Barnsley.

Match Odds

Cardiff City - 4/7
Exeter City - 4/1
Draw - 3/1

Predictions

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Hopefully back to winning ways 3-0 city win and journey back to Pembroke wife driving me having a couple cans festive fare a happy one

Get back on track 2-0 to the BLUBIRDS!!!

Will we end our Boxing Day hoodoo? We are dreadful at Christmas. I think you have to go as far back as 2012 for our last win and I think we've only won two this century. Last year's Boxing day was arguably our worst game of the season losing 3 v 2 to Oxford. I predict we will really struggle again to win but this hoodoo has to end one day, maybe its this year.

Both sets of fans can pay on the day for this 3pm kick off on Boxing Day

Injury update:

Osho could be back

Tanner expected to play some of this game

Rubin Colwill out till about March / April

Eli King out for the season

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FIXTURES:


Tue Dec 16 League Cup 5th Rd Cardiff City v Chelsea Crowd 33,027 Away Support 3,239



Sat Dec 20 Lincoln City Cardiff City Crowd 9,913 Away Support 1,617







Fri Dec 26 Cardiff City v Exeter City Crowd Away Support


Mon Dec 29 Cardiff City v Stevenage Crowd Away Support







Thur Jan 1 Wycombe Wanderers (A) - 3pm, live on Sky Sports

Sun Jan 4 Cardiff City v Wigan Athletic

Sat Jan 10 Leyton Orient v Cardiff City

Sat Jan 17 12:30pm Bradford City v Cardiff City Live Sky Tv

Sat Jan 24 12:30pm Cardiff City v Stockport County Live Sky Tv

Tue Jan 27 Barnsley (H)

Sat Jan 31 Burton Albion (A)

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Exeter had a great win beating barnsley ,we have to be up for this we don' t want 3 defeats in a row.

Exeter had a great win beating barnsley ,we have to be up for this we don' t want 3 defeats in a row.

Exeter have lost their last 5 league games in a row, their away form is awful

I wasn't surprised we lost yesterday, Lincoln is a very tough place to go.

But this is a game we really should be winning.

I'll say a routine 3-0 win.

We really need to understand that we are top but that does not mean we can just turn up for 3 points,
most teams playing us it's there cup final and biggest scalp in this division
i hope the lads realise this it needs to be drummed into them that teams are going to be putting more effort to play us ,
and we need to overcome that by raising our game .this could be our only downfall complacency.

We really need to understand that we are top but that does not mean we can just turn up for 3 points,
most teams playing us it's there cup final and biggest scalp in this division
i hope the lads realise this it needs to be drummed into them that teams are going to be putting more effort to play us ,
and we need to overcome that by raising our game .this could be our only downfall complacency.

Yep and Doncaster is a prime example of that of late.

They were unlucky against us to go home with nothing. Their next game they got stuffed 1-5 at home to poorly Plymouth. After that performance against us their fans must be more frustrated than us.

We really need to understand that we are top but that does not mean we can just turn up for 3 points,
most teams playing us it's there cup final and biggest scalp in this division
i hope the lads realise this it needs to be drummed into them that teams are going to be putting more effort to play us ,
and we need to overcome that by raising our game .this could be our only downfall complacency.

Yep and Doncaster is a prime example of that of late.

They were unlucky against us to go home with nothing. Their next game they got stuffed 1-5 at home to poorly Plymouth. After that performance against us their fans must be more frustrated than us.

Agree
I was there watching doncaster
Exeter thumped barnsley 3 0 saturday and they will be up for there biggest game of the season and upping there game,
that extra effort from teams could be our downfall

Personally we should not even struggle against these small clubs never mind being in this league.

We really need to understand that we are top but that does not mean we can just turn up for 3 points,
most teams playing us it's there cup final and biggest scalp in this division
i hope the lads realise this it needs to be drummed into them that teams are going to be putting more effort to play us ,
and we need to overcome that by raising our game .this could be our only downfall complacency.

Yep and Doncaster is a prime example of that of late.

They were unlucky against us to go home with nothing. Their next game they got stuffed 1-5 at home to poorly Plymouth. After that performance against us their fans must be more frustrated than us.

Agree
I was there watching doncaster
Exeter thumped barnsley 3 0 saturday and they will be up for there biggest game of the season and upping there game,
that extra effort from teams could be our downfall

There tales will be up after sat win

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I think we’ve got to win our 2 home games over Christmas,got a couple of tricky away games in January