The big one today as we face local rivals Cardiff at 17:30 this evening.
Fresh from our trouncing at Bournemouth, where we looked tired, vulnerable in defence and devoid of ideas up front, are we about to blow our season after all the hard work. Just when Norwich and Watford find form and go on unbeaten runs we start to flounder. Football is a confidence game and we look pretty low on it at the moment. Can Steve Cooper rally the troops, one statistic in his favour is that we haven’t lost consecutive matches this season and if the derby game today can’t motivate the players then nothing will.
The good news is Andre Ayew will not be joining Ghana in the Internationals break in S.Africa as it is one of the hot countries on the UK Covid list, and he would have missed games on his return due to mandatory self-isolation.
Jamal Lowe has been called up by Jamaica for the first time, Hourihane and Manning by ROI, and Roberts and Cabango by Wales, so no rest for them in the next two weeks.
Hopefully Cabango and Guehi return to bolster our defence and Whittaker gets more game time up front as he looked lively when he came on against Bournemouth last match.
The form goes out of the window for this one and I’m predicting a tight match and a draw.