MATCH THREAD: CARDIFF CITY v LUTON TOWN " MATCH THREAD

CARDIFF CITY v LUTON TOWN
Saturday 14th February, 3pm
Sky Bet League One - Match 31
Cardiff City Stadium 



CCFC TEAM NEWS:

Brian Barry-Murphy says Dylan Lawlor is back in contention for Cardiff City ahead of the visit of Luton Town on Saturday.

BBM:

"Yousef' has seen a specialist on his injury and he's making really good progress but no timescale on his return.”




BRIAN BARRY-MURPHY:


“Isaak Davies had concussion and is being monitored.”

“Rubin Colwill is still not ready to start, but making good progress.”




Luton have Sold Over 1,000 Tickets


Ryan Wintle One match Ban

It’s Pay on the day for Both Sets of Fans

Luton in their last 8 Away Games W 0 / D 2 / LOST 6




BBM: “ YOUSEF SALECH / DYLAN LAWLOR / RUBIN COLWILL “

"Yousef [Salech] is improving day by day. There's no timescale on him, due to the nature of his injury.”

“Dylan Lawlor, is expected to be back this week.”

“Rubin [Colwill] is back in training, but not available for yet as It's early stages for him.”

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About Luton Town

Luton were in the Premier League the season before last but suffered a double relegation to join us in this league.

Despite a poor start to the season, they have improved and are currently 7th with 45 points from 30 games.

Club Connections

Mark McGuiness recently played for both clubs.

The Opposition's Manager

Jack Wilshere has been Luton manager since October.

It's his first senior management role, but he was caretaker at the end of last season at Norwich.

Opposition Dangerous Players

Jordan Clark has been performing well in midfield. He has eight league goals this season.

Experienced midfielder Kasey Palmer was a January signing.

Referee

TBC.

Head To Head - Last Five Meetings

We have lost four of our last five games against Luton.

We won the other, which was the 1-0 win at Kenilworth Road in August.

Team News - Predicted Line-Ups

Cardiff City: Trott, Ng, Osho, Fish, Bagan, Robertson, Colwill, Turnbull, Tanner, Willock, Kellyman

Luton Town: Keeley, Lonwijk, Andersen, Mengi, Johnson, Palmer, Richards, Clark, Morris, Kodua, Cole

Last Game

We won 3-0 away at Rotherham on Saturday.

On the same day, Luton won 2-1 at home to Bradford.

Match Odds

Cardiff City - 10/11
Luton Town - 11/4
Draw - 12/5

Predictions

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3-0 City.

BBM: “ YOUSEF SALECH / DYLAN LAWLOR / RUBIN COLWILL “

"Yousef [Salech] is improving day by day. There's no timescale on him, due to the nature of his injury.”

“Dylan Lawlor, is expected to be back this week.”

“Rubin [Colwill] is back in training, but not available for yet as It's early stages for him.”

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Ryan Wintle One match Ban

It’s Pay on the day for Both Sets of Fans

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CCFC REMAINING 16 GAMES:




Sat Feb 14 Cardiff City v Luton Town Crowd Away Support

Tue Feb 17 Cardiff City v AFC Wimbledon Crowd Away Support

Sat Feb 21 12:30pm Plymouth Argyle v Cardiff City Live Sky Tv Crowd Away Support

Sat Feb 28 Doncaster Rovers (A) Crowd Away Support






Sat Mar 7 Sky 12:30pm Cardiff City v Lincoln City

Tue Mar 10 Barnsley (A)

Sat Mar 14 Exeter City (A)

Tue Mar 17 Wycombe Wanderers (H)

Sat Mar 21 Blackpool (H)

Sat Mar 28 Huddersfield Town (A)



Fri Apr 3 Port Vale (H)

Mon Apr 6 Peterborough United (A)

Sat Apr 11 Bolton Wanderers (H)

Sat Apr 18 Reading (A)

Sat Apr 25 Northampton Town (H)



Sat May 2 Mansfield Town v Cardiff City Crowd Away Support

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Lincoln play Bolton
Stockport play Bradford
Huddersfield play Stevenage

Comfortable home win, and then enjoy the above taking lumps out of each other.



9 wins needed for ~90 points. A decent run of winnable games after this.

3-1 win, another Joel C masterclass in the use of his 3rd lung.

In wilsheres interview he says we are no better than Luton in fact he sounded a bit condescending towards us, hopefully our players can shove those words back down his throat and prove we are on a different level to them this season

Luton haven't won away since November.

We haven't lost at home in the league since September.

In wilsheres interview he says we are no better than Luton in fact he sounded a bit condescending towards us, hopefully our players can shove those words back down his throat and prove we are on a different level to them this season

Horrible little shite, little man syndrome, and moody like a spoilt child not a lover of us welsh boys lets bend his ear.

In wilsheres interview he says we are no better than Luton in fact he sounded a bit condescending towards us, hopefully our players can shove those words back down his throat and prove we are on a different level to them this season

Horrible little shite, little man syndrome, and moody like a spoilt child not a lover of us welsh boys lets bend his ear.

Wiltshire Wiltshire what the score

Bermudians Nathan Trott and Nahki Wells were both on the winning side in League One on Saturday as they prepare to take each other on next week.

Trott and Wells will come face to face at Cardiff City Stadium on Saturday with both the home side and Luton heading into the game off the back of victories.

Goalkeeper Trott produced another clean sheet as League One leaders Cardiff City came away with a convincing 3-0 win over Rotherham United despite playing most of the match with ten-men.

Just watched a Luton fans take on this weekends game on Youtube. He believes they can get some thing out of the game, but to do so they need to play to their physical strength, and get into us - stop us playing football!

Is it just me, but I see this all the time from opposition teams fans / manager prior to playing us, that they want to bully / foul our players? Knew we would get this but, it's getting out of hand now - maybe BBM has seen / heard this as well, thus his statement on refs.

We will have a few top players missing, such as Salech, Wintle, Davies and Rubin Colwill, but if we perform anywhere near our best we should see off Luton quite comfortably.
The statistics this season prove this;

Cardiff: goals for 55, against 29.
Luton: goals for 40, against 35.

However, if we are not on our game, we could easily lose points to Luton who are a quite capable of a result.
We can't take anything for granted!

Just watched a Luton fans take on this weekends game on Youtube. He believes they can get some thing out of the game, but to do so they need to play to their physical strength, and get into us - stop us playing football!

Is it just me, but I see this all the time from opposition teams fans / manager prior to playing us, that they want to bully / foul our players? Knew we would get this but, it's getting out of hand now - maybe BBM has seen / heard this as well, thus his statement on refs.

We’ve been there before plenty of times. Knowing that technically we are the weaker team so need to disrupt the better team. We’re just not used to being the better team. If they let us play our football we will do a number on them, they know that so I don’t begrudge them using their own tactics to spoil the game

Cardiff City 2 Luton 0

Luton Town midfielder Jake Richards says the Hatters do not fear anyone with a trip to League One leaders Cardiff City looming at the weekend.

The 18-year-old scored from 20 yards in Saturday's 2-1 home win against Bradford City, but their past two away games have ended in single-goal defeats by Plymouth Argyle and Huddersfield Town.

Luton are seventh in the table, four points off the play-off places.

"They're in good form at the top of the table but we believe we can beat anyone with the players we've got," Richards said of the challenge at Cardiff.

"We brought in really hungry players (during the transfer window), boys that really want to get promoted and I think that's the whole group collective (mindset) now, to push to get into that top six and try to get promoted."

Richards now has three goals from 12 league appearances after joining from Exeter City last summer and is enjoying playing alongside vastly more experienced team-mates like Jordan Clark and more recent arrival Kasey Palmer.

"Every opportunity you get under this manager [Jack Wilshere], you've got to take," he said.

"I've done that a few times but I've just got to keep humble, keep working, keep trying to impress in training and hopefully they'll come.

"They [Palmer and Clark] are top players and I can learn a lot from them. Having that quality next to you, you can trust them on the ball, you know they'll find you and it's a brilliant midfield to play with."

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We really need a win herewith Lincoln and Bolton playing each other

All the players need to see the picture of this division,
and what it means if we win sat,
66 points and hopefully a draw for 2nd&3rd putting licoln on 62 and Bolton on 56

Just watched a Luton fans take on this weekends game on Youtube. He believes they can get some thing out of the game, but to do so they need to play to their physical strength, and get into us - stop us playing football!

Is it just me, but I see this all the time from opposition teams fans / manager prior to playing us, that they want to bully / foul our players? Knew we would get this but, it's getting out of hand now - maybe BBM has seen / heard this as well, thus his statement on refs.

That's where the Captain and senior players need to step up and keep the pressure on the ref, counting the fouls and making the ref and the linesmen aware of all the off-the-ball fouls. We need to do our part as well and put them under pressure, a few early bookings for them and a decent ref changes the game massively in our favour.

Hatters boss Jack Wilshere has confirmed he might well look to play two upfront in the future after a transfer window in which he bolstered his attacking options with the arrival of Port Vale’s leading scorer Devante Cole at Kenilworth Road on a permanent basis.

Since he was appointed in his first job as a head coach last October, Wilshere has mostly stuck to a formation that has played a single number nine in the final third, with wingers flanking him on either side. Summer signing Nahki Wells has most often than not been the first choice for the former England and Arsenal star, with 12 starts, although he has given opportunities to both Jacob Brown and Jerry Yates, neither able to grasp the spot, leading to the pair now being sent out on loan to Portsmouth and Sheffield Wednesday respectively.

The January window closed with Cole joining having scored eight goals for a struggling Valiants side, while on-loan Ipswich Town forward Ali Al-Hamadi is getting up to speed once more following a quad injury suffered on international duty with Iraq, earning three outings from the bench in Town’s last three matches. Long-serving attacker Elijah Adebayo is also back in training now too having not played since suffering a serious knee injury in early April of last year, which with Wells still staying now the window has shut, means Wilshere has four genuine options for the role.

Asked if having the quartet available could see him opt to play two alongside each other instead of operating with a lone forward, the Town chief said: “Yes, I’ve spoken so much about having variation in attack and having variation in attack is sometimes playing long, sometimes playing short, but it also is sometimes playing with two up top, sometimes playing with one.

"At times this season we’ve played with four on the last line with two central strikers. They (Adebayo, Al-Hamadi, Cole and Wells) give us the variation to do that, depending on the opposition we’re playing, depending on what they’re doing, as we will look at that of course. We’ve been speaking a lot this week as coaches about how we can do that and what it looks like, but we’re really happy that it gives us the option to do that.”

Luton have Sold Over a 1,000 Tickets / It’s Pay on the Day for Both sets of Fans

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CCFC TEAM NEWS:

Brian Barry-Murphy says Dylan Lawlor is back in contention for Cardiff City ahead of the visit of Luton Town on Saturday.

BBM:

"Yousef' has seen a specialist on his injury and he's making really good progress but no timescale on his return.”




BEIAN BARRY-MURPHY:


“Isaak Davies had concussion and is being monitored.”

“Rubin Colwill is still not ready to start, but making good progress.”

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Lincoln play Bolton
Stockport play Bradford
Huddersfield play Stevenage

Comfortable home win, and then enjoy the above taking lumps out of each other.



9 wins needed for ~90 points. A decent run of winnable games after this.

3-1 win, another Joel C masterclass in the use of his 3rd lung.

Bradford are playing Peterborough at Bradford?

Stockport without a game this weekend?

Lincoln play Bolton
Stockport play Bradford
Huddersfield play Stevenage

Comfortable home win, and then enjoy the above taking lumps out of each other.



9 wins needed for ~90 points. A decent run of winnable games after this.

3-1 win, another Joel C masterclass in the use of his 3rd lung.

Bradford are playing Peterborough at Bradford?

Stockport without a game this weekend?

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FA cup weekend, a few don't have a game.

Lincoln play Bolton
Stockport play Bradford
Huddersfield play Stevenage

Comfortable home win, and then enjoy the above taking lumps out of each other.



9 wins needed for ~90 points. A decent run of winnable games after this.

3-1 win, another Joel C masterclass in the use of his 3rd lung.

Bradford are playing Peterborough at Bradford?

Stockport without a game this weekend?

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FA cup weekend, a few don't have a game.

Yes, I know. I was wondering where SB 1927 got the idea that Bradford were playing Stockport Saturday lol. Bradford have Peterborough at home.

Ollie Yates will take charge of this game.

He has refereed 24 games this season, showing 110 yellow cards - an average of 4.58 per game. He has also shown two red cards.

This is not the first Cardiff City game he has refereed this season, the other was our home game against Newport County in the Vertu Trophy.

Unlike me this one,1-3 hope I’m wrong just got a strange feeling.

Unlike me this one,1-3 hope I’m wrong just got a strange feeling.

They do have 3 strikers we have 2 missing in salec and davies and a makeshift forward in kellyman so can see where you are coming from.