Cardiff City vs Port Vale - prediction, team news, lineups

Cardiff City are acceptable to big Port Vale successful League One this Wednesday evening with the players expecting a fantastic reception aft securing promotion backmost to the Championship.

Meanwhile, the visitors are continuing to play for pride, having already been relegated, arsenic they look to ascent supra Rotherham United successful the table.

Match preview

Cardiff secured their instrumentality to the Championship astatine the play with their 3-1 triumph implicit Reading distant astatine the Select Car Leasing Stadium.

The Welsh nine person stumbled implicit the enactment aft opening the play truthful well, arsenic they lone secured 2 wins successful their past six league games, but the players, unit and fans volition not attraction however they achieved it arsenic agelong arsenic they instrumentality to the 2nd formation of English football.

Fans volition beryllium assured up of this crippled owed to the information Cardiff person won 4 of their past 5 league games against Port Vale, with this their archetypal location lucifer against the Valiants since a 3-1 triumph successful August 2002.

Cardiff person kept cleanable sheets successful some of their past 2 location league games and volition beryllium looking to grounds 3 successful succession astatine the Cardiff City Stadium for the archetypal clip since October 2024.

Across the past 4 matches Port Vale person gone unbeaten, and this has seen them ascent disconnected the ft of the table, and fans whitethorn beryllium encouraged going into the adjacent run erstwhile they driblet down to League Two.

Their signifier is akin to that of Cardiff astatine present, which could marque for an absorbing fixture connected Wednesday evening, with some clubs having thing but pridefulness to truly play for, with the hosts already promoted portion the visitors person already suffered relegation.

Port Vale person won conscionable 1 of their past six distant league games against Cardiff City, a 3-1 triumph successful May 1994.

The visitors person won conscionable 1 of their past 13 distant league games against sides from Wales since April 2002, though that sole triumph came successful their past specified fixture successful a 4-1 occurrence implicit Newport County successful September 2024. In that match, the Valiants scored conscionable 1 extremity little than crossed their anterior 12 visits combined. 

Cardiff City League One form:

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Team News

Cardiff volition beryllium without the services of Callum Chambers, who has a wrist injury, portion Eli King has a cruciate ligament tear, meaning they volition miss the game.

There volition besides beryllium concerns astir the fittingness astir Dylan Lawlor, who withdrew from enactment precocious successful their triumph implicit Reading.

Port Vale volition beryllium without the services of George Byers, who has been missing since January; Ben Heneghan; Jayden Stockley; Kyle John; Andre Gray and midfielder Funso Ojo.

Manager Jon Brady has explained that helium volition not beryllium rushing immoderate of these players backmost with conscionable a mates of weeks near successful the season, arsenic their destiny has already been sealed.

Cardiff City imaginable starting lineup:

Trott; Ng, Osho, Fish, Bagan; Wintle, Robertson; Tanner, Colwill, Willock; Robinson

Port Vale imaginable starting lineup:

Gauci; Hernandez, Humphreys, Hall, Campbell; Shipley, Gordon; Croasdale, Garrity, Archer; Brown

We say: Cardiff City 2-1 Port Vale

Cardiff and Port Vale travel into this successful akin form, but the hosts should person conscionable capable to get the effect owed to the prime successful their broadside and the tendency to enactment a amusement connected for their fans arsenic they hole to marque their mode backmost to the Championship.

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