Cardiff City, FA Cup 4th round
City on the road to Wembley ?

THE CUNNING FOX, 21.01.2010

Results have lately been a bit disapointing, 1-1 at home to Ipswich and our 1-0 defeat away to Swansea. So what do have to wait for away to Cardiff in the FA Cup, coming up this Saturday

Leicester City:
There is no doubt that Pearson's experiments with a rotation policy doesn't work, and he has only managed to win games when he sticks to his best 11. There are talks of playing with two wide players and skip the holding defensive position to the right in midfield.

TCF would personally like to see Max Gradel in City's team and I cannot in my wildest dreams understand why Nigel Pearson don't rate Gradel as a potential candidate for this position. At least I would have kept him on the bench as an alternative to a wide player if N'Guessan and Dyer fails. At this moment no one else can cover for those two.

It's difficult to leave Oakley, King or Wellens out, all of them are quality players and this has worked well with Dyer to the left. The problem with this is that you will not birng enough players forward to be dangerous in every attack. With a wide player on both sides you would be able to attack with four players instead of three.

City's best line up
Weale - Morrison, Berner, Hobbs, Brown - Wellens, Oakley, King, Dyer - Fryatt, Howard, subs: N'Guessan, Gradel, Gallagher, McGivern, Waghorn, Logan

Cardiff City
David Jones has done a great job with Cardiff. They were in the final of the FA Cup in 2008, defeated by Portsmouth, but anyway a great run for a Championship club. Cardiff has a totally new stadium and is a competetive side.

City will be in for a "big job" to get a result here, but hopefully Nigel Pearson will be able to bring out a team that can be a handfull for DJ's men.

TCF Result Prediction
1-1 (Howard scores for City)