Cardiff City are on the road again with a trip to Ipswich and Cardiff boss Neil Warnock and his players continue their push for promotion. After the weekend fixtures, Cardiff climbed back to second in the league and an automatic promotion spot.
After beating play-off hopefuls Middlesbrough 1-0 on Saturday with a first-half header from Captain Sean Morrison enough to clinch victory more of the same tonight would be good. Aston Villa played a home fixture against Preston so had a chance to jump back into the automatic promotion spot but it didn’t work out for them. They could only manage a 1-1 draw leaving Cardiff a point ahead of their promotion rivals and a win at Ipswich could see them four points ahead of the Midlands club.
Wednesday 21st February 2018 fixtures with a view of the top six league placings.
Bristol City (6) v Fulham (5)
Derby (4) v Leeds
Ipswich v Cardiff (2)
Wolves (1) v Norwich
However, Cardiff will face a tough test against mid-table Ipswich whose draw in their derby against Norwich extended their unbeaten run to three games. Cardiff are undefeated in six games but means nothing without the three points. The Cardiff have won their last three games.
Last time around in October at the Cardiff City stadium Ipswich were crushed 3-1 but Cardiff record at Ipswich has been poor the last time they win at October 2012 at Portman Road.
Warnock will hope his side can repeat their performance from October where they cruised to a 3-1 victory there is an interesting fact the last time Cardiff did the league double over Ipswich you have to look back to 1946/47 season in the Third Division South.
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Team news
Striker Gary Madine is expected to be fit for Sunday's visit of Bristol City but could miss tonight’s game. Several players have come back from injury this week as Warnock announced that Craig Bryson, Kadeem Harris, and Matthew Connolly are all available for selection.
However, Aron Gunnarsson will remain sidelined until March and Jazz Richards is unavailable for two weeks.
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