03/05/2012 Match of the Day Wales


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Cardiff City are back on the road to Wembley, three months after that

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2010, defeat in the championship final. 2011, defeat in the semi-

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finals. Will it be third time lucky for Cardiff City? West Ham United

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missed out on an automatic promotion spot by just two points.

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Kenny Miller's last: August got the Bluebirds of two-way fly up. But in

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March, Kevin Nolan and George McCart be hammered Cardiff City.

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We've got to get ourselves right. Unusual atmosphere is that the

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play-offs a bring and we've got to be able to handle it and deliver.

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The players have been banned from social Letwin as they prepare for

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three finals. They have team matches coming up. Our focus is on

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that. Cardiff City have spent the last nine seasons in the

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championship. The goals of Peter Whittingham, Joe Mason and Kenny

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Miller. Plenty of Premier League experience in Sam Allardyce's

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scored. They are the favourites, but with that tag comes the

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first championship play-off semi- final of 2012. Cardiff City and

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West Ham. Let's join our commentators. Kevin Ratcliffe and

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line-up. On the bench, Anthony Gerrard features. Jack Collinson is

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in the West Ham line-up. Gary O'Neil will be familiar to

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Cardiff's supporters, he had a loan manager, Malcolm McKay, told his

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team, play the game, not the occasion. -- Malky MacKay. But it's

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such a big occasion for the Bluebirds. First touch for Darcy

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Blake, in for the injured Mark by Taylor. Mason gives chase,

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Tomkins gets it away. It looks like Mason is playing a little bit

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bar. I think that's a deflection for a corner. It's a great shot.

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was unlucky not to get that season because of injury. Good

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clearance. A chance for Miller. Could save by Robert green it.

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is a fantastic effort from Kenny Miller. He knows if it comes back

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he has a chance to control it, and he does. He strikes it great.

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MacKay will be pleased with his Premier League in 2001. -- took

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and follows up. It is the Welshman, Jack Collison. This is very poor

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the back, he gets in front of him and really shouldn't be getting

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there. He reacted to the Save as well. There's only one way Sam

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Lawrence went to ground in the penalty area. No chance of getting

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the ball. He goes down a bit too good shot, Miller. Just wide.

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been a long time coming for Cardiff. Kenny Miller comes from deep in

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midfield. He just can't get enough West Ham have plenty of numbers. So

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they go back again to start once job. Counter-attacking style,

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lending -- letting the centre-backs have the ball. Hudson giving it

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away. The ball was onside. Good deflected in. It's a second for

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West Ham are. It's a second for Jack Collison. Cardiff are out on

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their feet. It's not even half-time in the first tie. It comes off

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Lawrence. Jack Collison has hit it. Is it going goal would bound? And

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nice touch at the near post by Vaz Te. It's out by Turner. Then the

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strike by Jack Collison. Deflected off the head of Lawrence. The Kibo

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rooted to the spot. He's going one way. The ball deflected into the

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other corner. That is a bitter blow from Cardiff. It might have been

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going in any way, it was a sweet Carlton Cole gets there but it's

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just wide. This is a great save from Marshall. Equally, it's a good

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cross and good header from Carlton Cole. That might just keep the tie

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Cardiff City. And it is a Welshman that has done the damage. Jack

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colours and with two goals, at the second a deflected goal, but he

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won't mind. Cardiff City kick off this second half looking for a hero.

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Just to get themselves back in this pressure on with a Gunnarsson long

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throw. They desperately need a goal early in this there -- a second

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opportunity for Peter Whittingham. get through they still trace back.

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-- chase back. Whittingham with the Carlton Cole. That had everybody

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beaten. There was a little bit of a foot was high. It's a yellow card

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for Mark Noble. Uncompromising. don't know if he has caught

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Whittingham but he has won the ball. People keep saying, 10 or 20 years

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ago that was allowed, but now you bar. He holds his head in his hands.

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I am wondering, did he need a touch? It was a great header back

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by Turner. Could he have let it come across his body? He strikes it

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on that occasion. Marshall had to get out quickly. He did not get the

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ball, but he was caught. I think he was lucky. I thought Kevin Nolan

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got a touch on the ball. It is a booking for Kevin Nolan.

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anything, the keeper fouled Nolan. You just can't make it out at the

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maybe sort it out altogether. Kevin Nolan with the header wide. I think

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it could have been offside. It was lovely play by Cole. He was onside

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but he just got too much on the ball. If he had taken a little bit

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out of that and directed it towards goal, I don't think the keeper had

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tonight, Tomkins. His recovery is very good and he has stood up to

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lethal from 68 yards, but not them. He just could not get in between,

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to get enough on the ball and direct it towards the goal. It was

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a lovely cross from Gunnarsson. got the better of Reid but could

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fairy tale. That was a great technique. A great ball in by

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Gunnarsson. Earnshaw was looking for glory. The technique was great

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but he could not get over it enough. Gaulle side, working really hard in

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on for Aron Gunnarsson. Indecision. Gunnarsson took control. He decided

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to unleash the shot, but he has to hit the target. He could not. They

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are getting closer, are they? Or are they getting further away?

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Lawrence is screaming that he too late? There was a bit of an

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infringement. There was a little bit of a touch. It has been a

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really professional job by West Ham United. Can you see any way back?

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Very difficult. West Ham, head and shoulders. They could so it up if

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they get a third. The ball was across the six-yard box from Mickey

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Maynard. Still, Cardiff cannot get a sniff of possession. What her job

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West Ham have done in injury-time. Cardiff City's play-off hopes

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already severely damaged. Jack Collison scored twice on his return

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to Wales. Really, the Hammers are in total control, ready for the

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second leg on Monday night. It is a Herculean task, caused by that man,

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Jack Collison, for marquee McKay's West Ham United have taken an iron

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grip on this encounter. Cardiff Obviously it was. Again, we have to

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not concede bad goals. The first one was a bad goal. The second was

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complete luck in terms of it hitting somebody and going in the

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other direction. In the second half, we came out on the front foot and

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had three or four good chances that on another day could have dropped

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in. It is nice to get the goals, from a personal perspective, but it

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was a team performance tonight. Everyone worked their socks off.

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Carlton Cole was magnificent, causing them problems. It was a

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good team performance and we are halfway now and in a good position.

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Very pleased with the overall performance and pleased to not

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concede a goal in the second half. That would have lifted Cardiff and

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it may have ended up being a draw. But it was a thoroughly deserved

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win for our players, and it is only half time, as far as the leg is

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concerned. But it is a great platform for us to build on on

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Monday. They are a good team. They are not where they are for no

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reason. They have good players and they caused us problems. It will be

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tough at Upton Park but we are looking forward to it. We have to

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give everything we can. We have done all season. It will not change

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on Monday. I do you have to lift them before Monday? It is the

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second leg of a semi-final, so no lifting needed.

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A huge task for Cardiff City. Nathan Blake and Iwan Roberts are

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here to look back on a night that started well for Cardiff City but

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got worse. It was disappointing. For the first five was six minutes,

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Cardiff were OK but not great. After conceding a goal, they seemed

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to die away and it was all West Ham. Getting the early goal in the

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second half seemed to kill the time. Marquee McKay trying to put a

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positive spin on it, but the reality is that West Ham ran it

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tonight. They were the better side, no two ways about it. They have

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good players. Looking at the game tonight, I don't think in the first

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half Cardiff could cope with the power, pace and strength that West

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Ham had. They scored an early goal and that really knocked the Cardiff

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City players and I don't think they recovered from that. He sent his

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team out to keep it tight for the first 20 minutes but the early goal

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did knock them. So many players in the Cardiff team have looked

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comfortable all season. What happened to them tonight? A mixture

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of nerves and the opposition. The opposition were just better. Player

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for player, they handle the occasion better. They did not give

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the midfield time. Cardiff were a bit embarrassed. Kenny Miller was

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coming too deep, which made Gunnarsson drop too deep. West Ham

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seemed to have time on the ball in midfield. When Cardiff had the ball,

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they were closing them down so quickly that they found it

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difficult to get out. Allardyce got his tactics spot-on. He did. His

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top players performed well. The three boys in midfield played well.

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Carlton Cole can be a handful when he is that it, and he was at it

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tonight. He gave them a really tough time. They played direct and

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you have to cope with that. Cardiff did not cope with it as well as

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they should have done. Was that the difference, the fact that Carlton

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Cole bullied Mark Hudson and Ben Turner? He is an England

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international. There are lots of factors. You have to take into

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account that Cardiff's squad is so small and West Ham's is so big. You

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had Carlton Cole against the centre halves. I would not say he bullied

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them, but he had a better game than both of them. And the three

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midfielders, it was the same. But Cardiff were playing into West

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Ham's hands, because they played long balls from the back up to the

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front players. Mason and Miller are very small. All over the park, they

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had Cardiff figured and they won a lot of second balls. And lots of

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Premier League experience in the West Ham squad. They have taken a

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massive gamble. They lost Scott Parker but they kept the nucleus of

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the team they got relegated last year. He has added Kevin Nolan.

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They are paying big wages. It is a big gamble for West Ham but it

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looks as if it is going to pay off. Wrexham have also been in semi-

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final play-off action this evening. They have it all to do, like

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Cardiff City on Monday. Luton were The second leg is at the racecourse

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on Monday, kick-off at 4:30pm. We will be at Upton Park on Monday to

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bring you the best of the action from the Championship play-off

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semi-final second leg. West Ham United have made two goal advantage.

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Can you see Cardiff getting back into it? It will be difficult. I

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don't think anyone would say it would be easy for Cardiff. If they

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can get the first goal, the important thing is getting the

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first goal. If Cardiff get it, the West Ham fans could get nervous,

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players could get nervous, psychologically they will be weaker

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and Cardiff could have an opportunity. But they have to get

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the first goal, as simple as that. A Cardiff City have won at Upton

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Park. But it is a big ask, different to the first day of the

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season back in August. How does he pick his team up? He has a tough

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job in picking them up but he will do. They have to be positive and

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play at a high tempo. And they need the bit of luck that they had on

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the opening day of the season. And as Nathan said, the first goal will

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be vital. If Cardiff get it, it is game on. If West Ham get it, it is

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over, am afraid. Thank you both. Jack Collison Hammers the Bluebirds.

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