With My Little Pick and Shovel - A Cardiff City Story

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I always seem to get Brugge, Dnipro or both in my first couple of seasons in Europe. They've both proven tricky on their own patch, and I don't think I've ever got more than a draw against Dnipro.
 
TRANSFERS
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We've signed a few players and sold a few, who are they?

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A fairly quite summer transfer-wise as we let a few fringe players go and sign a few backups

DANNY INGS
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Danny cost us peanuts, arriving from Liverpool for just £3.4m. We bought him after his second stint at Liverpool, who sold him to Watford in 2016 for £11m only to by him back 3 years and 20 goals later for £9.25m, transfer committees...

VASILIS KOKORELIS
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An Australian with a work permit! Will be loaned out and sold for profit when he's good enough​
 
NeverChosenOne said:
I always seem to get Brugge, Dnipro or both in my first couple of seasons in Europe. They've both proven tricky on their own patch, and I don't think I've ever got more than a draw against Dnipro.
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Must be hard coded into the game
 
AUGUST
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The months without football have been boring and our lack of activity in the transfer market has emphasised this, so let's get back into it

COMMUNITY SHIELD
Manchester United 4-1 Cardiff City
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Meret, Jedvaj, Bazoer, Ilori (Cooper 62), Davies, Zielinski (Ledley 62), Rossiter, Green, Avdijaj (James 62), Duelund (Boyle 81), Perovic
United decided they didn't like the fact we beat them in the FA Cup final and wanted to humiliate us, and humiliate us they did! An embarrassing defeat at Wembley as United ran riot, Darnell James made his Cardiff City début today

BARCLAYS PREMIER LEAGUE
Cardiff City 2-2 Liverpool
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Meret, Jedvaj, Ilori, Cooper, Davies, Rossiter, Bazoer, Green, Oliver (James 56), Brady, Avdijaj (Perovic 78)
Robbie Brady dug us out of a hole today with two superb strikes, equalising quickly after Liverpool took the lead through Daniel Sturridge and a Jake Cooper own goal, the loan player showed up miss-firing striker Donis Avdijaj today, who just couldn't hit the back of the net

BARCLAYS PREMIER LEAGUE
Arsenal 4-2 Cardiff City
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Meret, Jedvaj, Bazoer, Ilori, Nakagawa, Zielinski, Rossiter, Green, Oliver (Duelund 86), Brady, Perovic (Boyle 86)
We did quite well, in the second half that is. Arsenal won the game in the first half through goals from Alexis Sanchez and Andre Silva. We only had 35% possession but miraculously made more clear cut chances than the Gunners. Still a disappointing start to the season

BARCLAYS PREMIER LEAGUE
Cardiff City 2-0 Watford
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Meret, Jedvaj, Bazoer, Ilori, Nakagawa, Zielinski (Lascelles 62), Reed, Green, Oliver (James 62), Duelund, Avdijaj
A fairly comfortable victory over Watford although it took way too long to get the second goal. Andre Green got the first goal following a huge period of domination from us, Watford barely had a sniff all day

BARCLAYS PREMIER LEAGUE
Newcastle United 2-4 Cardiff City
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Meret, Jedvaj, Lascelles, Ilori, Nakagawa, Bazoer, Zielinski, Green, Oliver (Reed 74), Duelund (Brady 74), Avdijaj
What a game! We visited Tyneside looking for a draw against a strong Newcastle side. Donis Avdijaj scored his first of the season to put us 1-0 up, only for Ayoze Perez to equalise for Newcastle. Andre Green grabbed our second just after half-time only for Newcastle to peg us back immediately. Donis Avdijaj then gave us the lead and we were in cruise control for the rest of the match, with Andre Green sealing the victory with a stunner 4 minutes from time

LEAGUE TABLE
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A decent start to the season, picking up 7 points from 4 games so far, let's keep this up

TOP SCORER: ANDRE GREEN (4 GOALS)

PLAYER OF THE MONTH
ANDRE GREEN
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4 goals and some top class performances earn Green the player of the month award​
 
SEPTEMBER
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A rocky start to the season but we've on our last 2, can we continue our form?

BARCLAYS PREMIER LEAGUE
Cardiff City 2-0 Nottingham Forest
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Meret, Gunter, Bazoer, Ilori, Nakagawa (Duelund 57), Rossiter, Zielinski (Ledley 7), Green, Oliver (Ings 80), Brady, Avdijaj
A solid 2 goal victory over Forest, featuring a goal from débutante Danny Ings. Pretty standard game and victory

BARCLAYS PREMIER LEAGUE
Stoke City 4-0 Cardiff City
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Meret, Jedvaj, Bazoer, Ilori, Gunter, Zielinski, Rossiter, Duelund (Grant 53), Oliver, G.Williams (Ings 53), Avdijaj 53
Well then. An own goal, a penalty and a red card in a hellish trip to the Potteries following our midweek European clash

LEAGUE CUP SECOND ROUND
Wycombe Wanderers 1-2 Cardiff City
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Meret, Jedvaj, Templeman, Lascelles, Brady, Rossiter, Reed, Cooke, James, Duelund, Boyle
What a strange game. A poor opening 30 minutes allowed Wycombe to take the lead through a Harrison Reed own goal, fortunately we rallied and dominated the game with Rhys Cook, Greig Boyle and Darnell James putting in top class performances

BARCLAYS PREMIER LEAGUE
Cardiff City 1-1 Wolverhampton Wanderers
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Meret, Jedvaj, Bazoer, Ilori, Nakagawa, Rossiter, Zielinski, Duelund, Oliver (G.Williams 63), Brady, Perovic (Ings 63)
We dominated the game and deserved to go a goal up but just seemed to stop after that, allowing Wolves to equalise 18 minutes after our opener, disappointing

LEAGUE TABLE
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A mixed month with 1 league win, 1 draw and 1 loss, not bad​
 
OCTOBER
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A tough month in the league, including an away game at Man City, as we attempt to push ourselves up the table

BARCLAYS PREMIER LEAGUE
Manchester City 4-1 Cardiff City
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Meret, Jedvaj, Bazoer, Cooper, Nakagawa, Reed, Rossiter (Zielinski 57), Cook, J.Williams, G.Williams, Perovic (Ings 57)
Fitness issues forced us to field a weakened team at the Etihad and it showed, we had a few chances but couldn't convert them, despite that it was a deserved victory for Manchester City

BARCLAYS PREMIER LEAGUE
Cardiff City 1-0 Chelsea
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Meret, Jedvaj (Gunter 58), Bazoer, Ilori, Nakagawa, Rossiter, Zielinski, Duelund, Oliver, Brady, Avdijaj (Perovic 45)
A tight affair that looked as though it had swung Chelsea's way when Robbie Brady tripped Cesar Azpilicueta in the box, only for Alex Meret to make a fantastic save. Chelsea had a corner with ten minutes to go only for the ball to be cleared, allowing Dusan Perovic to run the pitch and beat Chelsea keeper Thibaut Courtois

BARCLAYS PREMIER LEAGUE
Everton 5-3 Cardiff City
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Meret, Jedvaj, Bazoer, Ilori, Nakagawa, Rossiter, Zielinski (Grant 65), Cook, Oliver (James 65), Brady, Ings
Well. I have no idea what happened. Everton came out at 100mph and score 3 in 14 minutes, including two long range screamers. We responded through Daniel Zielinski, we should have scored a second minutes later through Jordan Rossiter. Mirallas sealed the victory for Everton in the 34th minute with a clinical effort. We rallied at the end with 2 goals in the last few minutes and deserved so much more than a loss

LEAGUE CUP FOURTH ROUND
Cardiff City 0-1 Burnley
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Kyle, Jedvaj, Templeman, Ilori, Nakagawa (Gunter 72), Grant, Bazoer, Green, Oliver, Duelund, Boyle (Diba 63)
17 ear old goalkeeper Andy Kyle marked his professional début with a man of the match performance against Burnley, despite conceding just 2 minutes in. We weren't at the races today but we did field a weakened team so it isn't surprising. Yusuke Nakagawa is out for 2 months with a dislocated shoulder

LEAGUE TABLE
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Two poor losses and one good win, its ok looking at the month we had​
 
NOVEMBER
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A poor month last month, we really need to improve

BARCLAYS PREMIER LEAGUE
Cardiff City 1-2 Tottenham Hotspur
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Meret, Jedvaj, Bazoer, Ilori, Brady, Rossiter, Zielinski, Green (Ings 64), Oliver, Duelund, Perovic
We started brightly and took the lead through Andre Green, unfortunately we couldn't hold on to the lead as Eriksen equalised just before half-time. Harry Kane scored the winner 13 minutes into the second half, disappointing.

BARCLAYS PREMIER LEAGUE
West Ham United 1-1 Cardiff City
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Meret, Gunter, Jedvaj, Ilori, Brady, Rossiter, Zielinski (Grant 63), Reed, Oliver (James 63), Perovic, Avdijaj
We went with 2 up today in a narrow 4-1-2-1-2 and were destroyed by West Ham, with the Hammers having 20 more shots than us. Oliver grabbed a lucky goal for us shortly into the second half only for West Ham to get a deserved equaliser in the last 10 minutes

BARCLAYS PREMIER LEAGUE
Cardiff City 2-0 Leicester City
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Meret, Jedvaj, Templeman, Ilori (Grant 69), Ganea, Reed, Bazoer, Cook, Oliver (James 75), Duelund, Ings
A weakened side due to fitness issues due to our huge amount of fixtures so far this season (this is our 20th so far). Luckily our attack was a good one and Mikkel Duelund and Danny Ings showed this, putting Leicester's make-shift defence to the sword

LEAGUE TABLE
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A decent showing this month after some rocky form with a good win against Leicester at the end of the month​
 
DECEMBER
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Can we provide some festive cheer to the people of South (East) Wales?

BARCLAYS PREMIER LEAGUE
Crystal Palace 2-2 Cardiff City
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Meret, Jedvaj, Bazoer, Ilori, Ganea, Rossiter, Zielinski (Duelund 83), Cook, Oliver (Avdijaj 61), Brady, Ings
A pretty tight match at Selhurst Park where a draw was a fair result. They took the lead twice but we equalised towadrs the end of both halves, Rhys Cooke the hero today

BARCLAYS PREMIER LEAGUE
Cardiff City 1-0 Burnley
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Meret, Jedvaj, Bazoer, Ilori (Gunter 58), Ganea, Rossiter, Zielinski, Green, Oliver, Brady, Ings (Boyle 58)
The first time we've scored against Burnley iunder my stewardship, never mind beat them! The goal came from the unlikeliest source in Romanian left-back Silviu Ganea. Alex Meret was Man of the Match today with a 9.1 Match Rating, which surprised me seeing as we controlled the game

BARCLAYS PREMIER LEAGUE
Derby County 1-2 Cardiff City
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Meret, Jedvaj, Bazoer, Ilori (Grant 45), Ganea, Rossiter, Zielinski, Green, Oliver, Brady, Ings
A comfortable win over struggling Derby County. We dominated the game and deserved the three points, the only disappointment is their goal and the margin of victory

BARCLAYS PREMIER LEAGUE
Fulham 3-2 Cardiff City
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Meret, Jedvaj, Bazoer, Ilori, Ganea, Rossiter (Perovic 75), Zielinski, Green (Duelund 63), Oliver, Brady, Ings
I don't know what to say. We really should have won this and the stats back this up, but two minutes of defensive madness cost us the three points. Very disappointing

BARCLAYS PREMIER LEAGUE
Cardiff City 1-3 Manchester United
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Meret, Jedvaj, Bazoer, Ilori, Ganea, Rossiter, Zielinski, Green, Oliver (Avdijaj 64), Brady, Ings (Perovic 64)
We got off pretty lightly against a United side who have run riot this season (they still haven't lost). We even managed to take the lead before relinquishing it 10 minutes later, but like I said we got off pretty lightly in comparison to these results: Derby 8-0, Fulham 5-0, Everton, Arsenal, Liverpool 4-0.

BARCLAYS PREMIER LEAGUE
Southampton 2-2 Cardiff City
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Meret, Jedvaj 84, Bazoer, Cooper, Nakagawa (Lascelles 84), Rossiter, Zielinski (Reed 51), Green, Oliver (Grant 72), Duelund, Ings
We started brightly and raced into a 2 goal lead on the South Coast but couldn't hold on after the break and allowed Southampton back into the game, ending with them equalising 6 minutes from time. Tin Jedvaj earned a red card for his protestations over Southampton's controversial equaliser

LEAGUE TABLE
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A good month at the start, a very poor ending though, allowing leads to slip away to Fulham and Southampton, picking up 1 point when we should have had 6​
 
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EUROPA LEAGUE GROUP STAGE
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A decent group featuring trips to Belgium, Romania and Ukraine, we'll have to be at our best to progress though as we venture into Europe for the first time since the nineties

MATCHDAY 1
Dnipro 1-2 Cardiff City
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Meret, Gunter, Bazoer, Ilori, Jedvaj, Zielinski, Rossite (Reed 63), Green (Templeman 77), Oliver (J.Williams 90), Duelund, Avdijaj
A tough start to our European campaign as we travel to Dnipro to take on one of Ukraine's top teams. Fortunately our quality shined through as we managed to score two goals in the opening 30 minutes to lead at the break 2-1. Our defence shined in the second half, helping us to a 2-1 win.

MATCHDAY 2
Cardiff City 1-0 FC Steaua Bucharest
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Meret, Gunter, Bazoer, Ilori, Nakagawa, Rossiter, Zielinski, Cook, Oliver, Brady, Avdijaj
A solid victory over Steaua Bucharest inder the lights at the Cardiff City Stadium. A good performance and result makes it two wins from two in the Europa League

MATCHDAY 3
Club Brugge 2-3 Cardiff City
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Meret, Jedvaj, Bazoer, Ilori, Nakagawa, Zielinski (Cooper 77), Rossiter, Cook, Oliver, Duelund (Brady 61), Ings (Perovic 61)
What a comeback! From 2-0 down at half-time and staring at defeat to 3-2 up in the 67th minute. Rhys Cook and Daniel Zielinski started the comeback before Robbie Brady completed it in the 67th minute

MATCHDAY 4
Cardiff City 1-1 Club Brugge
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Meret, Gunter, Jedvaj, Ilori, Brady, Rossiter, Zielinski, Green (Ings 45), Oliver, Duelund (Boyle 45), Perovic
Less goals but the same amount of excitement. We dominated the game but couldn't break Brugge down, fortunately Danny Ings arrived with a last minute goal to continue our unbeaten run in Europe and to all but secure our passage into the knockouts

MATCHDAY 5
Cardiff City 2-1 Dnipro
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Meret, Gunter, Bazoer, Ilori (Templeman 61), Ganea, Rossiter, Zielinski (Reed 61), Cook, Oliver, Brady, Ings
A slightly different game to the one in Ukraine, with Danny Ings scoring 2 in the opening 20 minutes. We were worried at the end as Dnipro pressed and scored one with 11 minutes to go but we held firm

MATCHDAY 6
FC Steaua Bucharest 1-1 Cardiff City
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Meret, Gunter (Jedvaj 53), Ilori, Templeman, Ganea, Ledley, Green, Green, J.Williams (Avdijaj 58), Brady, Ings
A tight affair in Romania as Steaua put up a fight and performed well, luckily we grabbed a goal to end our group campaign unbeaten

TABLE
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THE DRAW
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Could have been worse​
 
JANUARY TRANSFERS
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We had many bids for 2 players - Tiago Ilori and Tin Jedvaj, we let one go...

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We said bye bye to Tin Jedvaj on the 22nd of January. I didn't really want to sell him as I felt he had the potential to become a legend at the club but his constant whining became to much and we were forced to sell him to Manchester City for £15m, £6m more than we bought him for. Tin made 53 appearances for us over 2 and a a half seasons but now sits on the bench at the Etihad

INS
We signed a couple of players this month
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DIEGO POYET
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Diego was transfer listed by Chelsea so we snapped him up for £8.25m. He can play in midfield and in a more defensive position, he has great anticipation, positioning and passing amongst others. He already has 48 caps for Uruguay at the age of 25.

ASHRAF ALI
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The young Egyptian striker joined us for just £250,000 from El Mansoura and is improving all the time. He doesn't have a work permit yet but with his quality he'll be playing for Egypt in no time and as we all know
International football=Work Permit

JONATHAN KELLY
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The defensive midfielder has no work permit but plenty of caps for America, I'm confident we'll get one for him on appeal. He joined us for free from New York Red Bulls

JAN KUCHAR
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A young, determined playmaker with plenty of youth caps for the Czech Republic. He's playing in the Under 21s team at the age of 16 which has to be a good sign. We bought him from Czech Second Division side Sokolov for £170,000​
 
JANUARY
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Improvement. That's the key word here at the moment, can we show some?

BARCLAYS PREMIER LEAGUE
Liverpool 1-0 Cardiff City
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Meret, Gunter, Bazoer, Ilori, Nakagawa, Rossiter, Zielinski, Green, Oliver, Brady, Ings
We visited Anfield and did well against a Liverpool side hunting Champions League qualification only for our dreams of a win to be dashed by Lazar Markovic (Yes, THAT Lazar Markovic)

FA CUP THIRD ROUND
Brighton & Hove Albion 1-3 Cardiff City
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Meret, Gunter, Bazoer, Ilori, Nakagawa, Rossiter, Zielinski, Green (Duelund 58), Oliver, Brady, Ings (Boyle 58)
A nice, comfortable start to our FA Cup campaign. We fell behind early on but soon rallied and showed off our quality against Brighton, a solid victory

BARCLAYS PREMIER LEAGUE
Cardiff City 2-1 Arsenal
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Meret, Jedvaj, Bazoer, Ilori (Gunter 81), Nakagawa, Rossiter, Zielinski, Green, Oliver (James 61), Duelund, Ings (Boyle 61)
Our first home game of 2020 brought us our first home win of 2020! An even match where we took our chances and Arsenal didn't! Mikkel Duelund and Daniel Zielinski's early goals won us the game, Arsenal's goal a late consolation

BARCLAYS PREMIER LEAGUE
Watford 2-1 Cardiff City
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Meret, Jedvaj, Bazoer (Poyet 78), Ilori, Nakagawa, Rossiter, Zielinski (Lloyd 68), Green (Duelund 78), Oliver, Brady, Ings
We dominated the first half and took a deserved lead, unfortunately we couldn't hold on and Watford took advantage, scoring two second half goals and confining us to defeat. On a sidenote, Australian Stuart Lloyd made his début today and Harrison Reed has joined Burnley for £5m

BARCLAYS PREMIER LEAGUE
Cardiff City 2-1 Newcastle United
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Meret, Gunter, Bazoer, Ilori (Lloyd 81), Nakagawa, Rossiter, Zielinski, Green (Duelund 60), Oliver (Avdijaj 75), Brady, Ings
Who needs Tin Jedvaj? We beat Newcastle 2-1 at home without the Croatian with his replacement, Cardiff icon Chris Gunter, earning the man of the match award for his performance. We went 1-0 down but rallied and lead 2-1 at the break and actually held on to the lead for once

BARCLAYS PREMIER LEAGUE
Nottingham Forest 1-0 Cardiff City
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Meret, Gunter, Bazoer, Ilori, Nakagawa (Perovic 85), Rossiter, Zielinski, Green, Oliver (Avdijaj 62), Brady, Ings
I'm not angry, I'm just disappointed. A very tight game at the City Ground where Nottingham Forest took their chance, a poor way to end the month.

LEAGUE TABLE
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Our form has been pretty patchy this season which is why we're in mid-table​
 
FEBRUARY
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An FA Cup game, a Europa League tie and some Premier League games, isn't it exciting?

FA CUP FOURTH ROUND
Cardiff City 2-1 Milton Keynes Dons
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Meret, Lloyd, Bazoer, Ilori (Gunter 67), Ganea, Ledley, Zielinski (Poyet 67), Cook, Oliver, Brady, Ings
A poor match where we only scraped past this abomination of a club. Rhys Cook has a strange habit of playing and scoring and Robbie Brady scored another vital goal

BARCLAYS PREMIER LEAGUE
Cardiff City 1-3 Stoke City
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Meret, Gunter, Bazoer, Ilori, Nakagawa, Rossiter, Zielinski (Poyet 60), Green, Oliver (Avdijaj 60), Duelund, Ings
An amazing start and a woeful finish. We took the lead early on and dominated only for Stoke to score a breakaway goal just before half-time to swing the momentum of the match. Two goals in 3 minutes ended the match and gave Stoke the victory

BARCLAYS PREMIER LEAGUE
Wolverhampton Wanderers 0-2 Cardiff City
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Meret, Gunter, Bazoer, Ilori, Nakagawa, Rossiter, Zielinski (Duelund 65), Green, Oliver, Brady, Ings (Perovic 65)
A comfortable 2-0 victory away at bottom side Wolves. We need to put some decent performances together now otherwise we risk poor morale

BARCLAYS PREMIER LEAGUE
Cardiff City 0-1 Manchester City
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Meret, Gunter, Bazoer, Ilori, Nakagawa, Rossiter, Zielinski, Green, Oliver, Brady, Ings (Perovic 73)
A strong showing against Manchester City despite the defeat, we controlled the game, having twice the amount of shots on goal and on target but failed to score

EUROPA LEAGUE ROUND OF 32 FIRST LEG
SC Bastia 1-1 Cardiff City
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Meret, Gunter, Bazoer, Ilori, Nakagawa, Rossiter, Zielinski, Green, Oliver (Avdijaj 63), Brady, Perovic (Ings 63)
Our first knockout game in Europe went well as e return to Cardiff with an away goal, we should have enough to go through

FA CUP FIFTH ROUND
Tottenham Hotspur 2-0 Cardiff City
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Meret, Lloyd, Bazoer, Ilori, Nakagawa, Poyet, Zielinski (Avdijaj 68), Green (Duelund 53), Oliver, Brady, Ings
Our defence of the FA Cup ends with a controversial penalty and an own goal, very unfortunate. Spurs dominated the game but it took 2 huge slices of luck for them to go through

EUROPA LEAGUE ROUND OF 32 SECOND LEG
Cardiff City 4-1 SC Bastia
Cardiff win 5-2 on aggregate
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Meret, Bazoer, Ilori (Boyle 80), Cooper (Templeman 54), Poyet, Green, Zielinski, Rossiter, Brady, Ings, Avdijaj (Oliver 67)
We trialled a 3-5-2 today at home to Bastia and boy did it work! 4 goals and 23 shots against Bastia who's only real chance was the one they scored, we dismantled the French side and progress into the Round of 16 where we will face...
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LEAGUE TABLE
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Europe is our focus now​
 
MARCH
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Can we MARCH :P on in the Europa League and beat Olympique Lyonnais?

BARCLAYS PREMIER LEAGUE
Cardiff City 3-2 Everton
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Meret, Bazoer, Ilori, Cooper, Green, Zielinski (Grant 56), J.Williams, Brady, Ings, Avdijaj
Three goals in 6 minutes early in the second half was enough to beat a strong Everton side here. They took an early lead through Juanmi, who's second in the 70th minute made the Cardiff City Stadium a nervous place, we held on and its 2 wins from 2 for our 3-5-2

BARCLAYS PREMIER LEAGUE
Tottenham Hotspur 2-1 Cardiff City
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Meret, Lloyd, Bazoer, Ilori, Nakagawa, Zielinski, Rossiter, Green, Oliver, Brady (Duelund 61), Ings (Perovic 61)
I bottled it and reverted to out 4-2-3-1 away to Spurs and succumbed to a loss at New White Hart Lane (Really creative, guys). We took the lead but couldn't hold, much like in the home league game. Another own goal vs Spurs, strange.

EUROPA LEAGUE ROUND OF 16 FIRST LEG
Cardiff City 2-0 Olympique Lyonnais
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Meret, Bazoer (Oliver 59), Ilori, Cooper, Poyet, Green (Boyle 76), Zielinski, Duelund (Cook 76), Brady, Ings, Avdijaj
What's 3-5-2? A Cardiff City win, that's what it is! A huge home win against Olympique Lyonnais, scoring 2 and keeping a vital clean sheet which means we can go to France and... defend. We won despite playing Mikkel Duelund in central midfield, wonderful.

BARCLAYS PREMIER LEAGUE
Cardiff City 2-1 West Ham United
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Meret, Bazoer, Ilori, Cooper, Poyet, Green, Zielinski (James 61), Rossiter, Brady, Ings, Avdijaj
European hangover? What European hangover? The 3-5-2 strikes again as we beat West Ham 2-1 to continue our good form this month. Brady and Ings the heroes with two first-half goals

EUROPA LEAGUE ROUND OF 16 SECOND LEG
Olympique Lyonnais 1-0 Cardiff City
Cardiff win 2-1 on aggregate
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Meret, Bazoer, Ilori, Cooper, Green (Cook 82), Poyet, Brady, Rossiter, Zielinski (Duelund 82), Oliver, Ings
My first loss in Europe is probably the best loss of my career! We deployed Robbie Brady and Andre Green as Wing-Backs rather than wingers today to combat the attacking prowess of a Lyon side including Alexandre Lacazette, Nabil Fekir and Jakub Blaszczykowski. A great performance which advances us into the Quarter-Finals where we will face...
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Gulp.

BARCLAYS PREMIER LEAGUE
Leicester City 1-1 Cardiff City
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Meret, Bazoer, Ilori, Cooper, Poyet, Green (Duelund 68), Zielinski (James 80), Rossiter, Brady, Oliver (Avdijaj 56), Ings
A solid draw away to Leicester, Danny Ings gave us an early lead but Riyad Mahrez's equalisier dashed our hopes of all three points​
 
Just went through your story mate, and it's stunning! Nicely detailed story telling.

Keep it up, sure I'll follow!
 
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