Saturday 9th November, ko 12:30pm
Live on Sky Sports Football
Cardiff are the main live Sky game on Saturday lunchtime as they look to make it five wins in a row at CCS since October 1st. The visitors, Blackburn Rovers, have lost their last three games and have failed to score in their last four games.
Omer Riza: Press conference before Blackburn
"They play good football, quite similar to us in respect of how they try to create certain problems for the opposition, they create a box in midfield, but they do it differently. They’ve got a good attacking threat, but their form hasn’t been great as well, so it will be an interesting game.
"They come to us, and they'll want to try and get a result to get them out of the problem they’re in, and we want to win, so I suppose it will make for a good, attacking game, because they like to attack and we like to attack. Hopefully, we come out at the end of it on top.
"Our form has been good at home - I want it to be good away as well, which I think is important to push up the table and get to where we want to get to. It’s been good, and hopefully that can continue. The boys have got the bit between their teeth after yesterday’s game. We had a brief chat and they’ll be ready to go on Saturday."
Match Officials:
Referee: GAVIN WARD
Assistants: Lee Venamore and Matthew McGrath
Fourth Official : Adam Herczeg
Match Facts:
- Cardiff have won one of their last 12 matches against Blackburn Rovers in all competitions (D5 L6), a 1-0 home win in the Championship in October 2022.
- Blackburn have failed to score in either of their last two league visits to Cardiff (D1 L1) since a 1-0 victory in the 2021-22 season.
- Cardiff City have won each of their last four home league matches – the Bluebirds haven’t had a longer home winning run since between January and March 2018 under Neil Warnock (seven in a row).
- Blackburn Rovers have won just three of their last 20 away league matches (D6 L11) and have lost each of their last three on the road.
- Cardiff have won each of their first four home Championship matches under manager Omer Riza. The last manager to win his first five home games at this level was James Shan in March/April 2019 when in charge of West Brom.