Cardiff City vs Sheffield United

S24SU · OFFICIAL MATCHDAY EDITION · 2026/27 · No.5

28th August 2026 - Kick-off 15:00
Cardiff City v. Sheffield United
EFL Championship Week 3 - Cardiff City Stadium, Cardiff

EFL Championship Week 3 – Saturday 28th August 2026, 15:00 – Cardiff City Stadium, Cardiff
Please keep all discussion related to the match within this thread.

Match Info

Competition: EFL Championship Week 3

Kick-off: Saturday 28th August 2026, 15:00

Venue: Cardiff City Stadium, Cardiff

Player Ratings: CLICK HERE (will open shortly after full time)

Officials

Referee: John Busby

Assistants: Bhups Singh Gill and Matt Joyce

Fourth Official: Steve Parkinson

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Keep it on-topic and within the rules – see the forum rules if unsure.

 

[tyke1889]

 

[A Storm of Blades]

Sneak a win here and it becomes a good start for me. I’m happy with BBD’s return too. If we can get these 2-3 more in, we could easily become dark horses for a play-off push…

 

[AnstonBlade1]

1 point no goals 0-0

 

[BladeByChoice]

Difficult one to predict this, confident of the win but not the clean sheet. we might push up for goals and leave ourselves open at the back, 3-1 Blades.

 

[3Cheers4Ramirez]

Cooper
Doherty Tanganga Guinness McCallum
Peck Riedewald
Donovan O'Hare TheChilean
Bamford

Another clean sheet, this time a victory, with The Chilean getting the first of his 14 goals this season

 

[RMBlade]

Assuming Seriki is injured and BBD was registered in time.

1-0 Blades BBD goal Donovan assist

 

[coolasanidiot]

Sat here in errr Alaska using NordVPN - having trouble buying SUTV match pass keeps saying not in your region can only see audio pass-anybody else got issue? Is there a workaround?

 

[Uganda Blade]

Cooper
Doherty Tanganga Guinness McCallum
Peck Riedewald
Donovan O'Hare TheChilean
Bamford

Another clean sheet, this time a victory, with The Chilean getting the first of his 14 goals this season

I imagine it's a toss-up between Jairo and Rothwell, with perhaps Phillips coming on when they run out of gas.

 

[Frank the tank]

Diaz will be on bench
Can't see him.being chucked in whenever worked on tactics etc for this match for 3 days

 

[derfblade.3]

Start Tom again up front. Scored and looked up for it. Can't give him many more chances but i reckon he earns a start after Blackburn.

 

[bakeblade]

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Assuming Seriki is injured and BBD was registered in time.

1-0 Blades BBD goal Donovan assist

If so, it's a strong looking lineup backed up with an equally strong bench

 

[bakeblade]

Start Tom again up front. Scored and looked up for it. Can't give him many more chances but i reckon he earns a start after Blackburn.

No he doesn't

 

[GeorgeDonis1889]

Another clean sheet will do me. And if we don't fucking score we don't score. But we will fucking score because we've got some good quality there going in

 

[The Fox]

Another clean sheet will do me. And if we don't fucking score we don't score. But we will fucking score because we've got some good quality there going in

Totally agree .
Clean sheet shows were resilient and giving nothing away easily.
We've enough to create chances , taking them will come .

UTB

 

[Jimmy Fleck]

Another 0-0

 

[BadgersBigToe]

Sat here in errr Alaska using NordVPN - having trouble buying SUTV match pass keeps saying not in your region can only see audio pass-anybody else got issue? Is there a workaround?

Try one of these
Unsold territories - American Samoa, Belarus, Belgium, Brunei, Cambodia, Christmas Islands, Cocos Islands, Cook Islands, East Timor, Estonia, Faroe Islands, Fiji, Gibraltar, Guam, Italy, Kiribati Islands, Laos, Macau, Marshall Islands, Micronesia, Mongolia, Myanmar, Nauru, Niue, Norfolk Islands, North Korea, North Mariana Islands, Palau, Papa New Guinea, Philippines, Pitcairn Islands, Poland, Romania, Samoa, Soloman Islands, Spain, Tahiti, Taiwan, Tokelau, Tonga, Tuvala, Vanuata, Vietnam, Wallis & Futuna, Western Samoa

 

[VonBrysonsExpress]

Check the date in the opening post I only noticed as today is a day of note for me!

 

[Bobby Boo]

Here's todays team

 

[Thrice]

Who's RB? Or 3-5-2 again with Donovan as wing-back?

 

[ATL Recs]

Try one of these
Unsold territories - American Samoa, Belarus, Belgium, Brunei, Cambodia, Christmas Islands, Cocos Islands, Cook Islands, East Timor, Estonia, Faroe Islands, Fiji, Gibraltar, Guam, Italy, Kiribati Islands, Laos, Macau, Marshall Islands, Micronesia, Mongolia, Myanmar, Nauru, Niue, Norfolk Islands, North Korea, North Mariana Islands, Palau, Papa New Guinea, Philippines, Pitcairn Islands, Poland, Romania, Samoa, Soloman Islands, Spain, Tahiti, Taiwan, Tokelau, Tonga, Tuvala, Vanuata, Vietnam, Wallis & Futuna, Western Samoa

Belgium works fine

 

[bakeblade]

Who's RB? Or 3-5-2 again with Donovan as wing-back?

Tanganga? Hope not. Doherty obviously not fit to start and Shackleton waste of space

 

[espoo blade]

Who's RB? Or 3-5-2 again with Donovan as wing-back?

Maybe a 4 with Tanganga RB?

 

[SB_90]

unsurprised at Tanganga at RB. i ssud during the blackburn game. that i was stunned seriki carried on. because ive never know it end well when any footballer falls down with nobody around them.

hopefully cannon with confidence of last game, can kick on. (but ive lost count so many times)

i guess with burrows not even on the bench, its fuels his exit rumours

 

[Hamer's Right Peg]

Who's RB? Or 3-5-2 again with Donovan as wing-back?

Would imagine Tanganga at RB

 

[The Hobott]

Arblaster injured?

 

[HeCanDoMagic]

Arblaster injured?

Apparently missus due to give birth

 

[Aston max]

unsurprised at Tanganga at RB. i ssud during the blackburn game. that i was stunned seriki carried on. because ive never know it end well when any footballer falls down with nobody around them.

hopefully cannon with confidence of last game, can kick on. (but ive lost count so many times)

i guess with burrows not even on the bench, its fuels his exit rumours

 

[Aston max]

I guess Phillips isn't ready for 90 minutes, does wilder see something in Rothwell I'm missing or is he this seasons JLT

 

[Working Class Hero]

3-5-2 makes more sense with three centre halves, no right back, two midfielders and a no. 10.

I'm not sure that's what we've actually gone with, but give me those 11 players and that's what I'm doing.