Cardiff take on the visitors Reading in the round 33 match of English Championship. The match will be played on Friday, February 17th at Cardiff City Stadium (Cardiff).
Cardiff hasn't shined in recent years. The Bluebirds under the wing of Vincent Tan were able to climb to the peak in the Premier League. But there the representative of Wales, unlike his neighbor, Swansea, will not be able to hold out. And even vice versa now, they have to hang out at the bottom of the standings. The Welsh finished last season in a modest 18th place. But now, in fact, this is no longer possible to stay at that level and Cardiff have to fight for survival in the division. As a result, we went to change the mentor – the board relied on Sabri Lyamushi. But with him there was a defeat with Hull and Middlesbrough. And only Birmingham was beaten on Tuesday, confident 2-0 on the road. This victory allowed Cardiff to move out of the relegation zone and should give the team a positive impulse. There are a lot to improve – the hosing side had scored only 5 goals in their recent 7 matches at own stadium.
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Reading are still hanging out in the danger zone. The Royals seem to periodically show good results. And they jumped into the Premier League, however, the last time it didn’t work out to gain a foothold there. But now there is no reason to think about a new promotion - on the contrary, they need to defend the right to stay in the Championship. In the last draw, they finished on the “borderline”, 21st place. Now the wards of Paul Ince could not add much. True, recently there has been a relegation in the cup, albeit from Manchester United, and a number of matches without victories in the Championship, including losing 0-1 to Sunderland. But on Tuesday, they pulled out a victory at home over Rotherham due to a goal in the 90th minute. Offensive line of Reading is not confident in matches on the road – only 7 goals scored in recent 10 away games.
In April last year, Cardiff won a head-to-head, but that was the first such success in the last 14 confrontations. But in August, Reading won again, with a score of 2-1. Both teams do not shine, so it is unlikely that the fight will be spectacular. We are waiting for "under 2.5 goals".
Prediction for the match: Under 2.5 scored goals.
