Cardiff City vs. Newcastle United Predictions & Match Preview 28/04/2017

The Match Is Over. Score: 0-2

Cardiff City vs. Newcastle United Match Preview:

Newcastle United secured their promotion to the Premier League last Monday, with a devastating 4-1 win over Preston before their fans. "The Magpies" have become unattainable now. and there surely was a celebration about it in the Northern England. The next league rival to Newcastle is to be Cardiff City, who have had no competition motivation for long so far, is a Welsh team that performs their home games at a decent level and will be keen to claim a scalp of the EPL newly taken participant.

Match status: ENGLAND: Championship - Round 45
Kick-off: Friday 28 Apr 2017, 07:45pm GMT
Venue: "Cardiff City Stadium" in Cardiff, England

Cardiff City: Team News

Cardiff City themselves took part in the Premier league a while ago, but currently, they're considered only as a mid team in the Championship. As they have won on 11 occasions out of their overall 22 matches this ending season, collecting 37 points, it seems to be rather good results. Also, "The Bluebirds" have never dropped three points at a time in their recent six-match home run.

Newcastle United: Team News

Newcastle United have made it to the top England football tier again for one attempt in Championship; Rafael Benitez didn't leave the club last year and kept the Geordies' head coach position, to prove him able to achieve required results. So, after the 44 past rounds, Newcastle have picked up 88 points and secured a comfortable breakaway where they're 7 units ahead of third Huddersfield, 9 and 10 points far away from Reading and Sheffield Wed, who are fourth and fifth respectively.

Possible starting lineups of the teams:

Cardiff City: Ben Amos - Joe Bennett, Bruno Ecuele Manga, Sean Morrison, Matthew Connolly - Aron Gunnarsson - Kadeem Harris, Peter Whittingham, Joe Ralls, Craig Noone - Anthony Pilkington (4-1-4-1 formation)

Newcastle United: Robert Elliot - Vurnon Anita, Jamaal Lascelles, Ciaran Clark, Paul Dummett - Jonjo Shelvey, Isaac Hayden - Matt Ritchie, Ayoze Perez, Christian Atsu - Aleksandar Mitrovic (4-2-3-1 formation)

Missing players of Cardiff FC and Newcastle Utd:

Cardiff City: Rhys Healey, Sol Bamba. Doubts: Allan McGregor, Brian Murphy, Kenneth Zohore, Declan John.

Newcastle United: Rolando Aarons, Dwight Gayle.

Cardiff City - Newcastle United Head-to-Head Stats:

First mutual meet of 2016/17 dates on 05 November 2016, right when Newcastle had already been on a winning streak to eight matches on end, however, Cardiff side winded up pretty much the most resistant and kicking one as they not only get the ball in their goal but were pretty close to cooling off Newcastle's gained momentum. That game brought a 2-1 victory to the hosts, Newcastle United.

Interesting facts and streaks:

Cardiff have seen over 2.5 goals in their last 6 matches against Newcastle in all competitions.
Newcastle have been winning at both half time and full time in 5 of their last 7 matches against Cardiff in all competitions.
Cardiff have won their last 3 home matches (Championship).
There have been under 2.5 goals scored in Cardiff's last 3 games (Championship).

Conclusion and Match Preview:

Newcastle will be much more difficult to adjust properly to the upcoming matchup against Cardiff that takes place this Friday, since "The Magpies" gave out way too many emotions on the ground of "St. James Park" on last Monday. Thus the Welsh have a quite good opportunity of beating one of the strongest sides from the ongoing season.