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
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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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[blades_95]

Still all over the place & frantic in everything we do. Zero composure in the team.

 

[fifty shades of blade]

Sat here waiting for their goal.

 

[3Cheers4Ramirez]

Sheffield Shadow Chasers FC

Embarrassing

Consistently embarrassing

 

[Thrice]

Sat here waiting for their goal.

Feels like it's only a matter of time really.

 

[Peaktrade]

what’s with Wilders obsession this season with 8 defensive minded players and inviting the opposition on to us???

 

[Manwell Pablo]

Interesting subs lads.

 

[fifty shades of blade]

what’s with Wilders obsession this season with 8 defensive minded players and inviting the opposition on to us???

Cowards football

 

[Sharp_as_a_Blade]

This is genuinely the worst i've ever seen us play, makes Selles ball look like prime Brazil

 

[Champagneblade]

Baptiste for RND? Who the fuck is playing where?!?

For two natural left footers on the left now.

Good run just now by RND.

Riedewald now for Rothwell. Fair change.

Frees Peck up a little and we usually play with more control when Riedewald is in.

I guess the final change will be BBD for Cannon.

 

[Camden Blade]

Cowards football

That's what lost us the playoff final.

 

[Sharp_as_a_Blade]

Yet another defensive sub ffs

 

[Lendegoeystash]

It’s like watching U10’s, everyone just chasing ball.

 

[blades_95]

On the flip side, Cardiff play some really good football. Confident and quick in possession, some good young positive players.

 

[Working Class Hero]

I don't know who's playing where any more, but at least we have 11 players now. Rothwell did a great impression of Dean Hammond for 70 minutes. He looks really poor to me.

 

[SharpAsAblade]

Does wilder have a fetish for draws or something fml

 

[Davalon]

I think most of us realised it wasn't going to be a particularly great season but its looking like a much tougher watch than I envisaged.

Being dominated and being so defensive against this quality of opposition sets the alarm bells ringing.

Really need to take some points from coming games based on the opposition.

 

[Darren William]

I don't know who's playing where any more, but at least we have 11 players now. Rothwell did a great impression of Dean Hammond for 70 minutes. He looks really poor to me.

Mr A brooks again !!!!!.Money buys good players.

 

[Thrice]

This squad isn's as bad and as inferior as they look on the field. The issues are tactics.

 

[Jan Age]

Only one winner here and it’s not gonna be us

 

[Jimmy Fleck]

When they get their 3rd and probably 4th who will be to blame this time? The crap players or the outdated manager?

 

[Jan Age]

I genuinely wonder what the players actually think

 

[blades_95]

This squad isn's as bad and as inferior as they look on the field. The issues are tactics.

Careful, we’re not allowed to say that. Or point out the ‘style’ has been the same for much of the past 3 years, just with different levels in the quality of players.

 

[Alex Cheeseright]

Playing for a draw...end of thread, goodnight everyone

 

[3Cheers4Ramirez]

5 shots to their 21

Good going, lads, well done

 

[SB_90]

Andre brooks on fire for norwich & we're getting run ragged by a newly promoted L1 side. who i don't think we've test their GK since going 2-1 up

this is turning into a bad afternoon from a poor team. which is worse after the positivity of the last few days

 

[espoo blade]

Love Sydie, but that was a stupid challenge. Can sense the frustration though. We're really struggling here.

 

[Pittsburg Blade]

Got to give the sheep sh@ggers some credit though. They’re playing well, but helped massively by our inability to keep the ball.

 

[CornwallBlade]

what’s with Wilders obsession this season with 8 defensive minded players and inviting the opposition on to us???

He’s done that since the fist PL promotion

 

[Working Class Hero]

This squad isn's as bad and as inferior as they look on the field. The issues are tactics.

I'm not so sure. We haven't had players as bad as Rothwell, Cannon and McGuinness in our first 11 since the League One days.

The jury is still out on Donovan and Baptiste as well, as we haven't seen enough of them in Championship football.

That only leaves 6 proven Championship players in our starting lineup.

This team is worse than you think at the moment, and we need reinforcements. Hopefully some of them are already here if we can get the likes of Campbell, Diaz, Phillips, Blaster, Jairo, Seriki fit and firing.

 

[Blade56]

This is wilder just making it up