Bluebirds back on home soil looking for a first win of the season. Visitors Sheffield Wednesday have lost all three of their matches so far this season. Cardiff have a point, picked up at Leeds.
CARDIFF CITY v SHEFFIELD WEDNESDAY.
Saturday 26th August, ko 3:00pm Cardiff City Stadium
Cardiff will be without Nottingham Forest loanee Josh Bowler, who has a calf problem.
Right-back Mahlon Romeo is suspended after a red card in last weekend's 2-1 league defeat at Leicester City, but Perry Ng will return from injury to take over the full-back berth.
MATCH FACTS
- Cardiff City have lost their last two league games against Sheffield Wednesday, doing so in the 2020-21 campaign.
- They haven't lost three in a row against the Owls since May 1984 (run of four).
- Sheffield Wednesday are unbeaten in five league visits to Cardiff City (W1 D4) since a five-game losing run between 2008 and 2014.
- Cardiff are without a win in their last five league games (D1 L4), conceding at least two goals in each of those games; it's their longest such run in terms of conceding multiple goals since January 2021 (run of six).
- Sheffield Wednesday are the only side without a point in the Championship this season (P3 L3); the Owls have only lost their first four games of a season twice before in 1971-72 and 2007-08, both in the second tier.
- Only Rotherham (28.1%) have had a lower share of possession in the Championship this season than Sheffield Wednesday (31%), while the Owls have the biggest negative differential between goals conceded (7) and expected goals against (3.8), totalling -3.2.
Match Officials:
Referee: DARREN BOND
Assistants: Richard West and Edward Smart
Fourth official: Sunny Singh Gill