TONIGHT AS CARDIFF WENT OUT OF THE CUP / BIGGER WORRIES AS C

TONIGHT AS CARDIFF WENT OUT OF THE CUP / BIGGER WORRIES AS CARDIFF’S SMALL SQUAD CONTINUES TO SUFFER MORE INJURIES:


But the worrying thing is Norwich were not good at all.

As I have said every week we need strengthening.



League Cup Rd 2

CARDIFF CITY 1 NORWICH CITY 2

H-T 0-1

Youngest ever player record smashed! Noah Anyadike makes his competitive debut for the #Bluebirds at 15-years and 98 days!

Noah Anyadike became the youngest player in EFL Cup history when he takes the field for Cardiff tonight

For me Willock and Davies are not good enough for the Championship, my strong view, good league 1 players.

Don’t forget Norwich before tonight have had an awful start to the season.








Trott; Kpakio, Ng, Anyadike, Bagan; Robertson, Turnbull, J. Colwill; Davies, Robinson, Willock.

Subs: Tyrer, Moylan, Salech, R. Colwill, Scanlon, Tankiewicz, Moreno, Ashford, Giles.


POSSESSION CCFC 65% NCFC 35%

SHOTS CCFC 10 NCFC 12


SHOTS ON TARGET CCFC 2 NCFC 3



25mins : Wright's excellent delivery is met by a powerful Kvistgaarden header in the six-yard box to give Norwich the lead as Trott beaten 0-1

Yet another soft goal conceded from a corner.


Cardiff are lucky they only went in at h-t only 0-1

53mins: Noah Anyadike comes off after suffering a knock. He’s replaced by Rubin Colwill


67mins Three changes for City: Jack Moylan, Yousef Salech and Cian Ashford replace David Turnbull, Callum Robinson and Isaak Davies.


After Norwich being the better team for long periods , City improved after the subs.

78 mins Norwich add a 2nd goal 0-

Salech scores yet again 92nd min





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Sell up please Mr Tan.

Sell up please Mr Tan.

Our only future is once Tan has gone

I am not sure what some people were expecting tonight? No centre halfs and literally playing a 15 year old child! Its a freak situation having four centre halves out. We did our best and fell short. My worry is more that Kpackio was again shockingly poor as was Willock was dreadful too. We need strengthening but tonights result is about no centre halves not about the overall performance as such.

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SMALL SQUAD IN THE CHAMPIONSHIP IS A BIG NO

Sell up please Mr Tan.

Our only future is once Tan has gone

100% we will never reach our full potential until tan leaves this club

I just pray bbm doesn't get fed up , I know he wants a small squad but not this thread bare

SMALL SQUAD IN THE CHAMPIONSHIP IS A BIG NO

So if we have four centre halves available, even two, we still lose that game? Its not the squad size its the situation in one position.

I am not sure what some people were expecting tonight? No centre halfs and literally playing a 15 year old child! Its a freak situation having four centre halves out. We did our best and fell short. My worry is more that Kpackio was again shockingly poor as was Willock was dreadful too. We need strengthening but tonights result is about no centre halves not about the overall performance as such.

I think what most people were expecting was that more than four months after promotion was confirmed our squad would have been better not worse than it was in a lower division.

Won't comment on squad size or depth etc because I've been consistent in saying I'll judge it at the end of the window, which is now a week away.

But it was a poor performance tonight and the better team won.

Only positives were Moylan was decent again and Salech took his goal well.

Need to be better on Saturday.

I am not sure what some people were expecting tonight? No centre halfs and literally playing a 15 year old child! Its a freak situation having four centre halves out. We did our best and fell short. My worry is more that Kpackio was again shockingly poor as was Willock was dreadful too. We need strengthening but tonights result is about no centre halves not about the overall performance as such.

I think what most people were expecting was that more than four months after promotion was confirmed our squad would have been better not worse than it was in a lower division.

A fair point but I'll be patient to the end of the window.

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Won't comment on squad size or depth etc because I've been consistent in saying I'll judge it at the end of the window, which is now a week away.

But it was a poor performance tonight and the better team won.

Only positives were Moylan was decent again and Salech took his goal well.

Need to be better on Saturday.

What worried me slightly was that, like in the Wrexham game, Norwich were happy for us to have the ball for long periods and were holding us off quite comfortably.

It's like a tall person putting their hand on a shorter person's head and despite the short guy trying to hit the tall guy he just can't reach!

Great play by Salech for the goal but I think we've seen this season how much more difficult it's going to be to break teams down and get in behind them.

the priority this season is stability in the championship, still waiting for at least 4 signings only a week to go hope BBM has got them lined up our squad is way to small for the CHAMPIONSHIP GET A SHIFT ON BBM BIG GAME ON SATURDAY!!!

Won't comment on squad size or depth etc because I've been consistent in saying I'll judge it at the end of the window, which is now a week away.

But it was a poor performance tonight and the better team won.

Only positives were Moylan was decent again and Salech took his goal well.

Need to be better on Saturday.

What worried me slightly was that, like in the Wrexham game, Norwich were happy for us to have the ball for long periods and were holding us off quite comfortably.

It's like a tall person putting their hand on a shorter person's head and despite the short guy trying to hit the tall guy he just can't reach!

Great play by Salech for the goal but I think we've seen this season how much more difficult it's going to be to break teams down and get in behind them.

Yeah that's fair. Some teams will sit in against us at CCS and it's a challenge. It's why I think we need a new winger, at least one. Just to give us something different.

However it's a different story away from home. Thought we created plenty at Derby and can see us having a lot of joy in our attacking play in away games for sure.

The good news is we've got Robertson so don't need a new CB

Won't comment on squad size or depth etc because I've been consistent in saying I'll judge it at the end of the window, which is now a week away.

But it was a poor performance tonight and the better team won.

Only positives were Moylan was decent again and Salech took his goal well.

Need to be better on Saturday.

What worried me slightly was that, like in the Wrexham game, Norwich were happy for us to have the ball for long periods and were holding us off quite comfortably.

It's like a tall person putting their hand on a shorter person's head and despite the short guy trying to hit the tall guy he just can't reach!

Great play by Salech for the goal but I think we've seen this season how much more difficult it's going to be to break teams down and get in behind them.

Yeah that's fair. Some teams will sit in against us at CCS and it's a challenge. It's why I think we need a new winger, at least one. Just to give us something different.

However it's a different story away from home. Thought we created plenty at Derby and can see us having a lot of joy in our attacking play in away games for sure.

The good news is we've got Robertson so don't need a new CB

And Etete's back so no need for a new striker!

The plan is coming together!

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Disappointing loss for sure to Norwich. The silver lining is Cardiff sees them two more times in the regular season and at least this match didn't affect those standings. Hopefully they can learn from this match and get back at Norwich during the two regular season meetings. A bit alarming that it took until 90+ minutes to finally find a goal.

Disappointing loss for sure to Norwich. The silver lining is Cardiff sees them two more times in the regular season and at least this match didn't affect those standings. Hopefully they can learn from this match and get back at Norwich during the two regular season meetings. A bit alarming that it took until 90+ minutes to finally find a goal.

The goal was earlier than the Wrexham goal we scored.

Disappointing loss for sure to Norwich. The silver lining is Cardiff sees them two more times in the regular season and at least this match didn't affect those standings. Hopefully they can learn from this match and get back at Norwich during the two regular season meetings. A bit alarming that it took until 90+ minutes to finally find a goal.

I thought we were poor in attack last night but I will say that I think Norwich will be top eight this season.

They've had a bad start but they have good players and a good manager. Like us, they also had key injuries - which is why I didn't use our injuries as an excuse.