Cardiff pre match chat
A rare 3pm Saturday kickoff up next.
We travel to Cardiff to face Erol Bulut's men (if he is still in charge).
A poor start to the season has seen the former Fenerbahçe manager come under increasing pressure with his future very uncertain.
Cardiff sit bottom of the league with only 1 point from 5 games and 4 defeats.
1 goal scored and a rather alarming 11 goals conceded.
Last match was a 1-0 defeat to newly promoted Derby.
On paper an ideal opportunity for us to bounce back.
However Cardiff are a historical bogey club for us.
They've beaten us historically more times than we've beaten them.
All be it things favour us more over the last few meetings (unbeaten in last 4), they have shown in recent times they can still trip us up (Bielsa only took 1 point from 4 games).
So how will it go?
Will we see a parked bus and 90 minutes of tippy tappy only for a last minute Cardiff winner?
Cardiff aren't a parked bus sort of team actually, they average 53% possession overall and 58% which is the 5th highest at home.
So could we actually see two teams trying to play entertaining football? Ish anyway.
Don't know huge amounts about Cardiff players.
Familiar names like Callum Robinson, Anwar El Ghazi, Aaron Ramsey held together with glue and tape.
So how will we approach playing them?
Perhaps something drastic like not using two holding midfielders?
Playing down the right hand side of the pitch occasionally?
Will we see changes?
Tanaka?
Ramazani?
Schmidt?
We travel to Cardiff to face Erol Bulut's men (if he is still in charge).
A poor start to the season has seen the former Fenerbahçe manager come under increasing pressure with his future very uncertain.
Cardiff sit bottom of the league with only 1 point from 5 games and 4 defeats.
1 goal scored and a rather alarming 11 goals conceded.
Last match was a 1-0 defeat to newly promoted Derby.
On paper an ideal opportunity for us to bounce back.
However Cardiff are a historical bogey club for us.
They've beaten us historically more times than we've beaten them.
All be it things favour us more over the last few meetings (unbeaten in last 4), they have shown in recent times they can still trip us up (Bielsa only took 1 point from 4 games).
So how will it go?
Will we see a parked bus and 90 minutes of tippy tappy only for a last minute Cardiff winner?
Cardiff aren't a parked bus sort of team actually, they average 53% possession overall and 58% which is the 5th highest at home.
So could we actually see two teams trying to play entertaining football? Ish anyway.
Don't know huge amounts about Cardiff players.
Familiar names like Callum Robinson, Anwar El Ghazi, Aaron Ramsey held together with glue and tape.
So how will we approach playing them?
Perhaps something drastic like not using two holding midfielders?
Playing down the right hand side of the pitch occasionally?
Will we see changes?
Tanaka?
Ramazani?
Schmidt?