Cardiff vs Leeds LIVE: Marsch aims to prevent sixth straight third round lossCLASH LIVE ON TALKSPORT 8th January 2023, 1:14 pm Updated: 8th January 2023, Championship side Cardiff will welcome Leeds United to the Welsh capital in the FA Cup third round this afternoon. Jesse Marsch’s men sit two points above the Premier League relegation zone and will be hoping to ignite some form with a win in the cup. Getty Leeds are in a relegation battle in the Premier League The Whites head into the game off the back of two draws against West Ham and Newcastle, leaving them without a win since November.
Commentary will then come from Jim Proudfoot and former England defender Stuart Pearce. To tune in to talkSPORT or talkSPORT 2 through the website, click HERE for the live stream. You can also listen via the talkSPORT app, on DAB digital radio, through your smart speaker and on 1089 or 1053 AM. getty images Cardiff have had a tough season and sit in midtable in the Championship Cardiff vs Leeds: Team news Cardiff XI: Alnwick, Sang, Nelson, Simpson, Bagan, Rinomhota, Sawyers, Ojo, Philogene-Bidace, Harris, Davies. Subs: Allsop, Benjamin, Ng, Nkounkou, Wintle, Ralls, O’Dowda, Tanner, Wigley. Leeds XI: Robles, Kristensen, Llorente, Struijk, Firpo, Gyabi, Greenwood, Aaronson, Summerville, Gelhardt, Gnonto. Subs: Klaesson, Ayling, Drameh, Wober, Roca, Harrison, Perkins, Rodrigo, Joseph.
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. 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.
Cardiff vs Leeds: What has been said? Cardiff boss Mark Hudson is looking forward to welcoming a Premier League side today. “When you play a Premier League team you will be an underdog, ” he said. “But we have worked on how we can play going forward and how we can get players in the box that can pose a threat. “It’s a team that we’ve done well against historically and we are looking forward to it.
Similarly, opponents Cardiff are also winless since the season restart and were beaten by Blackburn last time out. The Bluebirds will be looking to hand Leeds their sixth consecutive defeat in the third round as they have failed to make it past this stage since 2017. Cardiff vs Leeds: talkSPORT coverage This FA third round tie will take place on Sunday, February 8. Kick-off at the Cardiff City Stadium is scheduled for 2pm. talkSPORT will have live coverage of the game presented by Adrian Durham.
” Klich broke down in tears at full-time in his final game Cardiff vs Leeds: Match facts 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. 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).
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). 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.