CARDIFF CITY v LEEDS UTD. FA Cup
Sunday 8th January 2023, ko 2:00pm
Live on ITV 1
Leeds United have four first-team players ruled out of the FA Cup clash against Cardiff City as Jesse Marsch has shared his team news.
Patrick Bamford is only back in training on 6 January while Adam Forshaw and Luis Sinisterra are expected to be in training next week.
Stuart Dallas has also undergone another operation to clean things up and he is obviously not available for the game either.
Match Facts
- This is the first FA Cup meeting between Cardiff and Leeds since January 2002, with then third tier Cardiff winning 2-1 against the Whites, who were top of the Premier League. At the time, it was the first time a side top of the top-flight had lost to a team from outside the top-two divisions in the FA Cup since February 1971, also Leeds against Colchester United of the fourth tier.
- All four times Leeds have been eliminated from the FA Cup by Cardiff City has come in the third round, doing so in three consecutive seasons between 1955-56 and 1957-58 and also 2001-02. Only three fixtures have seen a team knock out another more often in the FA Cup third round: Man Utd vs Reading (6), Man City vs Leicester (6) and Man Utd vs Aston Villa (8).
- Leeds have lost their last six matches in the FA Cup, a run stretching back to January 2017. Only once have they lost more consecutive games in the competition, losing seven in a row between 1955 and 1961, a run that included three defeats in a row against Cardiff.
- This is Leeds United's 10th consecutive away match in the FA Cup, stretching back to January 2016. They are only the second team in FA Cup history to play 10 away games in a row, after Stockport County between 1996 and 2001 (11).
- As a Championship side, Cardiff are winless in their last nine FA Cup matches against Premier League teams (D2 L7) since a 2-0 away win at Middlesbrough in March 2008, going on to reach the final that year.
Match Officials:
Referee: Jarred Gillett
Assistant Referee: Neil Davies
Assistant Referee: Craig Taylor
Fourth Official: Peter Bankes