MATCH THREAD: CARDIFF CITY v STOKE CITY " MATCH THREAD

CARDIFF v STOKE CITY
Tuesday 8th September, 7.45pm
Sky Bet Championship - Match 6
Cardiff City Stadium


CCFC TEAM


Cardiff City : Trott; Ng, Bielik, Osho, Bagan; Robertson, J. Colwill, Moylan; Tanner, Salech, Willock.

Subs: Tyrer, Turnbull, Scanlon, Tankiewicz, Anyadike, Moreno, Kpakio, Ashford, Robinson.





Don’t forget Stoke Fans get FREE Travel on official Club Coaches to Away Games:

Over 800 Stoke will be at the CCS


ITS PAY ON THE NIGHT FOR BOTH SETS OF FANS


Barry-Murphy said Chambers is in the same bracket as Dylan Lawlor and Will Fish, adding: "He won't be available for Tuesday and it's a bit more complicated because of his injury.”

Chambers won’t be back this September, maybe after.



Isaak Davies injured once again, a hamstring injury.


NO CHANGE:

BBM:

“Dylan is now back doing some very light training and doing some jogging, but he's nowhere close to returning for us .”


“So it's impossible to say when [he'll be back].”


“Dylan Lawlor and Will Fish face lengthy lay-offs, while Calum Chambers' mystery knee injury is harder to put a timescale on

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About Stoke City

Stoke City are in their ninth successive season in this league, having been relegated from the Premier League in 2018.

They finished 17th last season. There are high hopes for this season for them.

The most famous silverware they have won was the EFL Cup in 1972, they also reached the FA Cup Final in 2011.

Club Connections

Peter Odemwingie and Kenwyne Jones both played for us in the Premier League, and also played for Stoke.

Cameron Jerome also played for both clubs.

The Opposition's Manager

Mark Robins has been Stoke manager since January 2025.

The experienced manager played for Man Utd and played a big part in them winning the FA Cup in 1990. He went on to reach the FA Cup semi finals as Coventry manager, losing to Man Utd.

Also as Coventry manager, he guided them from League Two to the Championship and also won the EFL Trophy.

Opposition Dangerous Players

George Hirst was a summer signing, he scored his first for Stoke at the weekend and scored 11 in the league for Ipswich last season.

Justin Devenny scored two on his debut on Saturday.

Million Manhoef scored seven goals and got three assists last season.

Referee

Sam Allison will take charge of this match.

Last season, he refereed 25 games and showed 93 yellow cards - an average of 3.72 per game. He also showed two red cards.

This is his fourth game of the season, in his first three he has shown 10 yellow cards and 1 red card.

He began his career as a player, and spent time at Bristol City.

Head To Head - Last Five Meetings

We have each won one of the last five meetings, with three draws.

The last game between the two teams was at CCS in April 2025 for a Championship fixture, with Stoke winning 1-0.

Team News - Predicted Line-Ups

Cardiff City: Trott, Ng, Bielik, Osho, Bagan, Robertson, Turnbull, Moylan, Tanner, Willock, Salech

Stoke City: Johansson, Johnson, Wilmot, Lawal, Graham, Bocat, Devenny, Soumare, Galbraith, Gallagher, Hirst

Last Game

We lost 2-0 at Portsmouth on Saturday.

On the same day, Stoke won 4-0 at home to Charlton.

Match Odds

Cardiff City - 5/4
Stoke City - 2/1
Draw - 5/2

Predictions

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ITS PAY ON THE NIGHT FOR BOTH SETS OF FANS

City to bounce back and get our first win to kick start the season 3-1

Aug 2026

Mon Aug 17 Cardiff City 1 Wrexham Crowd 31,421 Away Support 2,549



Sat, Aug 22 Derby County 2 Cardiff City 2 Crowd 28,926 including 2,771 Away Supporters


Sat, Aug 29 Cardiff City 2 Sheffield United 2 Crowd 21,036 including 1,359 away fans






Sept

Wed, Sept 2 Queens Park Rangers 2 Cardiff City 1 Crowd 15,027 Away Support 1,271




Sat, Sept 5 Portsmouth 2 Cardiff City 0 Crowd 20,580 Away Support 2,200



Tues, Sept 8 (7.45pm) Cardiff City v Stoke City



Sky 12:30pm Sat, Sept 12 Bolton Wanderers (a)



Sky 12:30pm Sat, Sept 19 Charlton Athletic (h)

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Can’t see us winning this one

Trott

NG - RB
Osho - CB
Bagan - CB
Scanlon - LB

Bielik - 6
Rubin - 8
Joel - 10

Ashford - RW
Salech - ST
Moylan - LW

Isaak Davies injured once again, a hamstring injury.

I have a funny feeling we will go back to the false 9 tuesday with salech being rested and rubin or moylan playing the false 9

Stoke come into this game beating Charlton 4-0 at home on the weekend -
Players missing from the weekend - Ampah : Cresswell : Gibson : Ingelsson : Tchamadeu .

Going for a draw again but hopefully we can nick it. Depends if it's not working but we persist on playing the exact same way. Stoke have half a team out who played on the weekend but they got players who can slot on on the level

BBM:


"It's a very tough schedule."



Tues, Sept 8 (7.45pm) Cardiff City v Stoke City



Sky 12:30pm Sat, Sept 12 Bolton Wanderers v Cardiff City



Sky 12:30pm Sat, Sept 19 Cardiff City v Charlton Athletic




“We knew the games were very close together in this opening period. With the squad the size of ours, that has its challenges, but we'll try to play really well in our home stadium, and try to win.

"We have to remain calm. I wouldn't get too carried away by where we are; it's very early in the season. We've worked together for a period with a lot of these players, so that's a real benefit - we know how we work. We have to improve, and that will remain the case.

"We were backed incredibly on Wednesday night at an extreme cost to our supporters. To come to Portsmouth in such numbers again, the support is incredible, and we don't take that for granted. I can't thank them enough for what they've done, but we know that our job is to win."

Brian provided an injury update ahead of the game, after Isaak Davies missed out on Saturday's match at Fratton Park.

"Isaak wasn't fit - he felt his hamstring in training on Friday, so I imagine he won't be available for Tuesday. The rest of the guys are back around the international break, so I don't imagine anything will change between now and Tuesday.

"The players who are here will have our full backing, our full support to try and help them produce a performance that gives us a chance to win. We're very confident that we can win games at this level, and I'm sure we will."

The so called incident in pompey might actually bring the team together and fight more for each other during the match

The so called incident in pompey might actually bring the team together and fight more for each other during the match

You might be right, I really hope so

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Last minute winner. Robinson

Trott header injury time winner

Referee is absolutely awful.

Barry-Murphy said Chambers is in the same bracket as Dylan Lawlor and Will Fish, adding: "He won't be available for Tuesday and it's a bit more complicated because of his injury.”

Chambers won’t be back this September, maybe after.

Don’t forget Stoke Fans get FREE Travel on official Club Coaches to Away Games:

Over 800 Stoke will be at the CCS

Barry-Murphy said Chambers is in the same bracket as Dylan Lawlor and Will Fish, adding: "He won't be available for Tuesday and it's a bit more complicated because of his injury.”

Chambers won’t be back this September, maybe after.

I have said that chambers lawlor will be as long as fish to be back

Don’t forget Stoke Fans get FREE Travel on official Club Coaches to Away Games:

Over 800 Stoke will be at the CCS

Is that to every away game or just select games? Either way it's pretty fantastic that they do that.

Stoke City are assessing injuries to Bosun Lawal and Sam Gallagher as they go in hunt of a third win on the spin – and their first away win since January.

Lawal limped out in the second-half of Stoke’s 4-0 win over Charlton while Gallagher was taken straight down the tunnel for treatment after pulling up in the first half.

Regardless, Mark Robins has hinted that he will rotate the squad to deal with the avalanche of fixtures thrown up in the Championship. A Tuesday night trip to Cardiff will be Stoke’s sixth game in 18 days, with a seventh to come away at Watford on Saturday.

Robins has sounded pleased with squad depth coming out of the transfer window and it was a bench full of senior players at the weekend. Maksym Talovierov, Robert Bozenik, Lamine Cisse, Jack McGlynn and Ben Pearson were sent on while Tomas Rigo, Bae Junho and Luca Bombino remained unused.

Million Manhoef will hope to shrug off an injury he picked up in training while Junior Tchamadeu is close to a return. Ben Gibson has been serving concussion protocol, Svante Ingelsson is probably going to be sidelined until the international break and Aaron Cresswell is out longer term.

Ato Ampah came through a 45-minute run-out for the under-21s on Friday night at Stockport as he returns to action for the first time since joining Stoke from Chelsea in January.

Robins said: “(The players not in the starting XI have) got to stay focused, they’ve got to stay joined up. They’re not always going to start but it’s going to be a case that you can have squad rotation, you can maybe keep people fresh and try to avoid the injuries.”

This is expected to be the last game until mid-October for Bae Junho, who has been named in South Korea’s squad for the Asian Games. The Seoul press reports that he will travel east on Thursday.

Cardiff are expected to miss Wales forward Isaak Davies, who was left out of a game at Portsmouth on Saturday due to a hamstring injury.

Cardiff are expected to miss Wales forward Isaak Davies, who was left out of a game at Portsmouth on Saturday due to a hamstring injury.

Brian Barry-Murphy’s squad has been stretched in the first few weeks of the season and he named two goalkeepers on the bench at Fratton Park. Callum Chambers, Dylan Lawlor and Will Fish are also unavailable.

“(Davies) felt his hamstring in training so I imagine he won’t be available for Tuesday,” Barry-Murphy told WalesOnline. “The rest of the guys are back around the international break so I don’t imagine anything will change between now and Tuesday.

“(Chambers) is in the same bracket as Dylan and Will Fish. He won’t be available for Tuesday and it’s a bit more complicated because of his injury.”

Stats show we'll have the ball, lets hope we can get a win by any means.

A must win game already….jeez how the momentum has already shifted somewhat. He’s got to start the right team tonight, Stoke have picked up and have a good manager, I fear the worst.

Stats show we'll have the ball, lets hope we can get a win by any means.

Thought you said we would have a ball ,I did' nt think we where that good yet.

All i want to see is Joel Colwill starting alongside Rubin.
I bet Joel is desperate to start games but BBM seem to not favour him to start games.

Salech up top as always since he is our only striker available due to Issak Davies being injured

All us fans want is a better performance after 2 poor results. Even if we lose as long as our performance in the game
is much better and improving then fans won't mind. Yes we want wins but the performance is needed for fans to see
the improvements in order to get wins.

I think it will be the usual back 4, Bagan Osho Bielik and Perry NG

The key is performance
Improvement in performance will mean goals in which will lead to wins.
Need of course to be solid at the back and not leak the goals but our hands are tied until Lawlor returns.

Cardiff City : Trott; Ng, Bielik, Osho, Bagan; Robertson, J. Colwill, Moylan; Tanner, Salech, Willock.

Subs: Tyrer, Turnbull, Scanlon, Tankiewicz, Anyadike, Moreno, Kpakio, Ashford, Robinson.

That's a weak bench, not sure we put out a weaker one than that throughout the whole of last season. Oh well, what can we do? BBM choose this so we gotta roll with it.

Just give it your absolute all boys, the crowd will be with you from the off. Get out there and get this win on the board so we can all breath a sigh of relief.

BLUEBIRDS