Carlisle
Utd
Caig
Bowman
Searle
Whitehead (Thorpe 46)
Brightwell
Prokas
Hopper 
(McAlindon 70)
Clark
Stevens
Anthony
MendesSub not used
Couzens |
Carlisle
Utd |
0 |
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Cardiff City |
1 |
| Kevin Nugent pen 49 |
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Attendance
-
2,700
Referee -
G B Frankland
(Middlesbrough)
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Cardiff
City
Hallworth
Delaney
Ford
Mitchell
Young
Carpenter
Fowler
O'Sullivan
Williams (Thomas 87)
Nugent
Middleton (Hill 59)Sub
not used
Allen |
Report by
Dean Hurley.
This is my match report of my 11 hour round journary to watch the City go
top of leauge until at least next Saturday.
This was an excellent performance by the City who battled and fought
really hard for this victory and over the 90 minutes probably shaded it and
were the better side. I thought Richard Carpenter was superb in the middle
of the park and Wayne O’Sullivan didn’t stop running all night.
We played very well as a unit but it looked like the game was going to head
for a 0-0 with both sides content on keeping on what they had. The defence
was very tight tonight and for the second game running Ford seemed to be in
the right place at the right time as he gave a very controlled and
authoritative performance. Mitchell was slightly dodgey in some parts of the
game but it was covered up by defences toughness not to get beaten against
a poor looking Carlisle side. If you had asked Frankie before the game to
take a point from the game I’m positive he would have said thank you very
much as Carlisle is a very difficult place to win on a Tuesday night but
the manor it which the players fought tonight would have pleased him
immensely. Report by NigelBlues.
Same starting line up for 4th successive game except Dai Thomas replaced
Chris
Roberts on the subs bench.
City started well and Jason Fowler nearly scored with a chip described as
truly magnificent from 30 yards on 3 minutes. It beat the Carlisle keeper but
came back off the bar.
10 minutes later Craig Middleton was unlucky with a volley that was well saved
and City were well on top.
Carlisle fought back and it was said their loan signing, Mendez, should have
scored twice before half-time. On the first occasion however, he hit the side
netting and next time, he hit the post with Hallworth beaten.
half-time carlisle 0 city 0
The goal came 2 mins into 2nd half. After a Delaney run and centre, John
Williams went in with the keeper and his header was pushed away for a corner.
The corner sounded innocuous but Carpenter went down. The radio commentators took ages to
realise it was a penalty (but summarise Jeff Eckhardt knew it was immediately). They were
so unexcited, it was unbelievable. I was exploding at my pc! (not to mention cracking open
another can!!!).
That lethal striker, Kevin Nugent, strode up to take the penalty which flew
into the centre of the net. Carlisle's keeper dived right. 2 goals in 2
games - what a marksman! City's 1st penalty of the season too. Super Kev got
booked in the 1st half for hacking down Damon Searle too - what more can you
ask for?
The rest of the game was fairly dead (why does this sound so familiar lately?
Muhz - as this was a night game, you need to come up with a new theory!).
City rarely threatened but were rarely troubled.
More than 6 mins of injury time were played and nobody knew why. In the City
chatroom (great service and facility Mike Morris - it came into its own
tonight), nerves were frayed especially as it decided to log everyone out with
2 mins to go and frequently if you were 'idle' but the celebration was great t
the final whistle. All except for Anthill who decided to log out when injury
time started.
Report from the Sporting Life website.
NUGENT TAKES CARDIFF TO THE SUMMIT
Kevin Nugent's 49th-minute penalty lifted Cardiff to the top of Division Three as
they won 1-0 at Carlisle, who stay in the bottom four.
Tony Hopper brought down Richard Carpenter and Nugent made no mistake from
the spot for his sixth goal of the season.
Report by Matchfacts
A second-half penalty was the difference between Carlisle and Cardiff, who boasted
the meanest defences in Division Three. The victory sent
The Bluebirds to the top of the table, but leaves United struggling at the bottom. The
home side should have been in front at the interval, but Ian
Stevens had a ninth-minute effort turned around the post and Mendes was unlucky with a
chip. Then Mendes again robbed Fowler and raced
past Young to beat the 'keeper with a low drive that came back off the foot of the post
GOALS
0-1 Cardiff 49 mins Nugent
a rash challenge by Hopper upended Carpenter inside the box for a clear penalty and the
striker kept his cool sending his spot-kick to Caig's left. |
