Eamon Dunphys tackle
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Spot on Ibroxlion. Outstanding today.
Cardiff v Wall Match thread
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Cardiff City 0-1 Millwall | Championship highlights
Highlights of the Sky Bet Championship match between Cardiff City and Millwall.
wellerwasbest
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11 games now i heard them say, well now 12 obvs was a bit surpised to hear that tbh
Did not think they were that bad.
Decent player up front and the young kid at the back for them looked decent
Another club that their fans think they are a so called big club cos of a little stay in the Prem recent years
Ive seen millwall play there at their old place when their was just over 3,000 fans
I think he gets much unfair stick on this Forum.
I genuinely believe if he didn’t work his nuts off, he’d be less knackered, make different runs, show more composure in the box and convert more chances.
He gives his all for the team, and the fans, sacrificing the personal kudos he would gain selfishly playing for himself and, arguably, scoring more.
norwichmark
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Great 3 points well happy, we can say what we see though. What did I say wrong?. AlbertM was critical too. They were league 1 standard
Rowett’s view
Millwall manager Gary Rowett:
"I think it was, for large parts of the game, pretty attritional but I think the game dictated that. Cardiff played like they had nothing to lose.
"Every time we attacked and lost the ball we left ourselves open and we could have dealt with that a lot better. But going a goal up means we have a tendency to drop in and protect what we've got.
"We had to do that for long spells, we had to dig it out and sometimes those three points feel a lot nicer than three points when you've played really well because the character of the group came to the fore today."
Millwall manager Gary Rowett:
"I think it was, for large parts of the game, pretty attritional but I think the game dictated that. Cardiff played like they had nothing to lose.
"Every time we attacked and lost the ball we left ourselves open and we could have dealt with that a lot better. But going a goal up means we have a tendency to drop in and protect what we've got.
"We had to do that for long spells, we had to dig it out and sometimes those three points feel a lot nicer than three points when you've played really well because the character of the group came to the fore today."
wellerwasbest
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Boos rang out at full-time as Cardiff City slumped to a 1-0
by » Sat Jan 21, 2023 5:35 pmBoos rang out at full-time as Cardiff City slumped to a 1-0 defeat by Millwall and edged even closer to the dreaded drop zone.
Saturday 20th January 2023
It took a defensive error from Cedric Kipre to allow Tom Bradshaw in to poke home the early goal, which proved to be the winner, with City's blunt attack once again failing to land a punch.
It's now 11 games without a win in all competitions, a run stretching back to November 5, pre-World Cup. Huddersfield below them, whose game was called off this weekend due to a frozen pitch, have two games in hand and just a three-point deficit to overturn.
These are worrying, worrying times at Cardiff City.
The day began with protests outside of Cardiff City Stadium against the owner and the board over the club's current position and lack of plan to get out of it.
Unfortunately for Cardiff, that lack of forward plan transferred on to the pitch, too, with things simply not clicking into gear in the final third. How many times have we said that this season?
A perfect example was after eight minutes when Sheyi Ojo had burst clean through with Jaden Philogene galloping on his outside. All he had to do was roll it into his team-mate's path for an easy finish - but a recovering Millwall defender cut out the errant pass.
Millwall fired their shots on the break, too, to make sure Cardiff weren't too comfortable. George Honeyman was a weapon on the Lions' right-hand side and his low cross found Zian Flemming in the box, but his shot fizzed wide.
But it was a big City error which led to Millwall's opener. Philogene's poor pass was intercepted by Jake Cooper, who waltzed up the pitch and slotted a cute ball in behind the defence. Cedric Kipre tried to shepherd it out, but in an error of judgement, allowed Bradshaw in behind him to poke home at the near post.
Cardiff fought back well before the break, to their credit. Callum Robinson did well to dispossess Cooper before slotting in Philogene, but the pass was just off and the winger couldn't get his shot away.
As ever, Cardiff looked dangerous until that final third, but were so easy to defend against. A smattering of boos rang out at the break.
City changed things up after the break, opting for a back three, and it almost paid dividends as Kipre broke out of defence and fed Robinson. The forward drove towards the Millwall box before playing a cute one-two with Kion Etete before bending his effort just inches wide of the far post.
But Millwall always looked dangerous on the break and Honeyman in particular was a threat. He was found ghosting into the box near the hour-mark and took a touch before lashing towards the bottom corner. It looked a certain goal before Mark McGuinness, on his return from a loan at Sheffield Wednesday, slid in and put it over his own crossbar.
It just looked destined to be one of those days for Cardiff, who were largely comfortable but posed little threat on the opposition's goal.
Cardiff lumped everything they could at Millwall towards the end, but, as has so often been the case this season, it was not enough.
A disgruntled fan base, a feckless attack, a partial transfer embargo and a managerless team: It's a dark time at Cardiff City and supporters are desperately looking up, waiting for some sunshine to burst through the menacing grey clouds.
Cardiff City XI: Allsop; Ng, McGuinness, Kipre, O'Dowda; Wintle (Ralls 69), Rinomhota; Philogene, Ojo (Davies 69), Robinson; Etete.
Subs: Alnwick, Nelson, Sang, Sawyers, Colwill.
Millwall XI: Long; McNamara, Hutchinson, Cooper; Mitchell, Styles (Malone 90), Saville (Cresswell 90), Flemming; Honeyman (Voglsammer 79), Bradshaw (Shackleton 79), Bennett (Leonard 63).
Subs: Bialkowski, Esse.
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Lion1964
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Great 3 points well happy
That’s better mate, you haven’t said anything wrong.
Just not getting the feeling you are enjoying the wall experience very much
After many years of following us I now try and focus on the positives rather than the negatives in our plight, I find it helps me personally being generally a miserable old git.
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northern lion
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I thought Bradshaw‘s goal was a proper poachers goal. Too much careless passing today. However three points are very welcome
High Life Street 2.0
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Both teams could have got a hatful. Draw would perhaps been fair. Perhaps. So a win is justice too. Cardiff seemed a depressing place, perhaps the weather tho.
High Life Street 2.0
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That asisst by Fleming for the miss was disgusting!
Kryan Bing
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That was well done today and a tough one. We didn't play great but another three points on the board and another clean sheet.
Behind Burnley and Sheff Utd, we have the next best defensive record in the Championship. If you can't bang loads in - stop the opposition fuckers from scoring.
Behind Burnley and Sheff Utd, we have the next best defensive record in the Championship. If you can't bang loads in - stop the opposition fuckers from scoring.
wellerwasbest
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norwichmark
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I’m an old git alright. Even worse since my problem.Great 3 points well happy
That’s better mate, you haven’t said anything wrong.
Just not getting the feeling you are enjoying the wall experience very much
After many years of following us I now try and focus on the positives rather than the negatives in our plight, I find it helps me personally being generally a miserable old git.
Great 3 points well happy
That’s better mate, you haven’t said anything wrong.
Just not getting the feeling you are enjoying the wall experience very much
After many years of following us I now try and focus on the positives rather than the negatives in our plight, I find it helps me personally being generally a miserable old git.
I’ll try that then. Keep quiet and think of good things we did.Great 3 points well happy
That’s better mate, you haven’t said anything wrong.
Just not getting the feeling you are enjoying the wall experience very much
After many years of following us I now try and focus on the positives rather than the negatives in our plight, I find it helps me personally being generally a miserable old git.
