Our prediction for this Championship match:
Cardiff
Match Time & Date:
11/02/2023
16:00
Prediction: 0-1
Middlesbrough
Saturday’s football game at Cardiff City Stadium pits together Cardiff City and Middlesbrough, the two teams who sit in the opposite halves of the table. The Bluebirds suffered yet another dip in form, with the team extending their losing run to three games at Hull City, and, no doubt, they are low on confidence ahead of the visit of Boro. All Mahlon Romeo, Jamilu Collins, and Ebou Adams are out of contention with injuries, but there are no suspended players in the home team.
Meanwhile, the visitors aim to build on back-to-back wins over Watford and Blackpool, and we predict that they will take advantage of Cardiff’s shaky defence. A man to watch in the away team will be Chuba Akpom, who scored a brace in the last league match, while both Aaron Ramsey and Matt Clarke remain on the sidelines with injuries.
Highlighted Player (Callum Robinson):
Born in Northampton, Callum Robinson started his career at Aston Villa. Having gone through the youth ranks with the Villans, Robinson was given his first-team debut in 2013. As a product of the Aston Villa academy, Robinson unfortunately never got a chance to prove his worth at the club and ended up playing no less than 4 league appearances during his three-year stay at Villa Park.
Various loan spells – at Preston North End on two occasions and Bristol City – brought mixed fortunes for the striker up until 2016 when he sealed a permanent move with the Lillywhites. Robinson represented England at U16, U17, U19 and U20 levels but raised plenty of eyebrows when he declared for the Republic of Ireland in March 2018 through his late grandmother who was from Monaghan.
The striker made his senior team breakthrough in Republic of Ireland’s 2-2 draw with Celtic in Scott Brown’s testimonial match and will be hoping to prove doubters wrong and prove his motive is bigger than career opportunism.
Highlighted Team (Middlesbrough):
Middlesbrough is a professional football club that have been balancing between the top two divisions of England’s league system in the modern history. Boro have been playing their home games at the Riverside Stadium since 1995 and their shirt colour is red. The capacity of the Riverside Stadium is 34,742. Middlesbrough impressed in the 2015/2016 Championship campaign and they did really well to secure promotion to the English top flight. Newcastle United and Sunderland are regarded as the club’s main rivals, but there is a rivalry with Leeds United as well.
Middlesbrough made it to the FA Cup final in 1997, but Chelsea proved to be a big catch for the Boro in the title game (0-2). However, the Riverside Stadium outfit did remarkably well to win the League Cup trophy in 2004, with the team beating Bolton Wanderers in the final. George Boateng, Stewart Downing, Juninho Paulista, Gareth Southgate, Jonathan Woodgate, Yakubu Aiyegbeni, Tuncay Sanli and Hamilton Ricard are the star footballers who left their mark at Middlesbrough.
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