Cardiff City vs Stoke City - prediction, team news, lineups

Stoke City marque the travel to the Welsh superior connected Tuesday evening looking to marque it 3 Championship victories successful a enactment erstwhile they look newly-promoted Cardiff City, who are inactive searching for their archetypal triumph since returning to the 2nd tier.

The Bluebirds suffered a 2nd consecutive decision astatine the play erstwhile they mislaid 2-0 astatine Fratton Park, portion the Potters person enactment their hard commencement to the run down them with back-to-back victories, including a thumping 4-0 triumph implicit Charlton Athletic.

Match preview

After earning promotion from League One past play by finishing 2nd with 91 points, Brian Barry-Murphy's Cardiff City broadside person returned to the Championship inactive searching for their archetypal victory, with 3 draws followed by back-to-back defeats.

The Bluebirds remained unbeaten done their archetypal 4 league matches aft signaling draws against Wrexham, Derby County and Sheffield United, with the Welsh broadside showing plentifulness of committedness successful onslaught by scoring 5 goals crossed those contests.

However, Cardiff travelled to West London past week and suffered their archetypal decision of the run arsenic a brace from Rumarn Burrell helped Queens Park Rangers to a 2-1 victory, earlier different nonaccomplishment astatine Portsmouth followed astatine the weekend.

Barry-Murphy's broadside conceded either broadside of fractional clip to Conor Shaughnessy and Marko Milovanovic, suffering their 2nd decision successful 4 days and dropping into the bottommost 3 for the archetypal clip since returning to the Championship.

Despite their debased position, which whitethorn transportation small value with 41 league matches inactive to play, the Bluebirds person shown encouraging signs successful beforehand of goal, with six strikes successful 5 games ranking among the champion tallies successful the bottommost 10, though their 9 goals conceded volition interest Barry-Murphy aft Cardiff were beardown defensively successful past season.

As for visiting Stoke City, they marque the travel from Staffordshire to South Wales successful bully form, with their caller revival coming astatine an perfect clip for Mark Robins and his team.

The Potters endured a disastrous commencement to the 2026-27 run and sat bottommost without a constituent aft 3 matches, but Stoke person since turned things astir by beating Norwich City 1-0 earlier thrashing Charlton Athletic 4-0, a effect that came against their erstwhile manager Nathan Jones.

The play triumph was peculiarly awesome fixed that Robins' broadside faced a Charlton squad who arrived astatine the bet365 Stadium unbeaten, lone for the Addicks' promising commencement to beryllium brought to an abrupt end.

The erstwhile play had seen the Potters endure plentifulness of disapproval from their ain supporters aft a 4-1 thrashing astatine the hands of precocious relegated Wolverhampton Wanderers, but their caller summertime recruits helped to enactment things close connected Saturday afternoon.

A brace from Justin Devenny and goals from Ethan Galbraith and George Hirst saw Stoke contention into a 4-0 pb wrong the opening 40 minutes, and aft the visitors were reduced to 10 men aboriginal successful the 2nd half, Robins' broadside comfortably saw retired the triumph to ascent 11 places successful 4 days and instrumentality to much acquainted mid-table territory.

With Cardiff having spent past play successful League One, this volition beryllium the archetypal gathering betwixt the sides since the 2024-25 campaign, erstwhile they met 3 times, with a gully and a Stoke triumph coming successful the league portion the Bluebirds progressed connected penalties successful the FA Cup astatine the bet365 Stadium.

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Team News

After a winless instrumentality to the Championship, Barry-Murphy whitethorn already person been considering changes for this midweek clash, but an incidental during the 2-0 decision astatine Fratton Park could present marque that determination for him.

Police are investigating an altercation involving caller Bluebirds signing Krystian Bielik and a Portsmouth protagonist aft the defender went to retrieve the ball, with it yet to beryllium determined whether the Polish planetary volition beryllium disposable for Tuesday's game.

As acold arsenic injuries are concerned, Cardiff person not picked up immoderate caller concerns but stay without Dylan Lawlor, William Fish and Calum Chambers.

The Potters, meanwhile, would person hoped to support the aforesaid XI that produced their biggest triumph of the play astatine the weekend, but further injuries person forced Robins to see changes.

Sam Gallagher was forced disconnected aft 34 minutes with an injury, portion Irish defender Bosun Lawal was besides withdrawn with fractional an hr inactive to play, and some players are expected to miss the travel to the Welsh capital.

The injured duo volition articulation Ben Gibson, Aaron Cresswell, Junior Tchamadeu, Svante Ingelsson and Ato Ampah successful the attraction room.

With those latest fittingness concerns, Robert Bozenik and Maksym Talovierov could travel into the starting XI.

Cardiff City imaginable starting lineup:

Trott; Ng, Scanlon, Osho, Bagan; Robertson, Turnbull; Tanner, Moylan, Willock; Salech

Stoke City imaginable starting lineup:

V. Johansson; Wilmot, Graham, Talovierov; Johnson, Devenny, Soumare, Galbraith, Bocat; Bozenik, Hirst

We say: Cardiff City 2-2 Stoke City

Just nether a week ago, some of these sides were inactive searching for their archetypal Championship victory, but Stoke present participate their sixth league outing with successive wins down them and volition beryllium targeting a 3rd consecutive success.

However, Cardiff person mislaid lone doubly and person already travel adjacent to claiming victories connected respective occasions, truthful we expect the Bluebirds to extremity their losing tally successful beforehand of their location supporters arsenic the 2 sides play retired an entertaining draw.

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