Cardiff City 3 - 2 Man City - TERRIBLE!

Well in my pre match I had us down for smashing Cardiff today, although I stupidly made this prediction based on thinking we were going to be consistent, silly me!

We were absolutely terrible today and although Cardiff worked hard, the defeat was all our own doing. I discounted Cardiff as a poor team and I stand by that, all they did was stick ten behind the ball and that was us gazumped, just as we were against the same tactics last season.

Today our passing was just awful, our defending poor and our work ethic was lacking, it is almost like they think they have a right to win these games at times and just do not put the effort in.

If we were to look back at the game you would see we actually dominated possession, but as we know that doesn't necessarily mean a whole lot. It is ok to have a lot of the ball when your not giving it away every other pass or trying to score the prettiest goal every time you go forward.

We need to just keep things a little more basic at times and our class will shine through. As I mentioned we always seem to want to score the prettiest goal we can rather than just making sure we do the basics properly first, today for example our goals came from having a pop and your run of the mill cross and it worked, but more often than not for some reason we want to walk the ball in. I thought this would of been addressed in pre season as this is not a new issue, it was a big problem last season when we weren't scoring enough.

Now to the players, I am not at a stage where I want to pick out certain players yet as it is not something I like to do if I can help it and seems as its just the second game I am going to let certain people off. What I will talk about however is players that I think should be playing, Gareth Barry being the player in question.

What has Barry done wrong that means he should be frozen out? Barry has been a major part of our transformation and has seen us through plenty of games by very quietly marshalling the midfield, today for instance he would have sat in the midfield cleverly breaking up play, something that needed to be done but just wasn't. It is almost like he is just not fashionable enough to play for City, I would bring him back into the fold with immediate effect.

Just to finish up, is it drastic to think that this is an extremely bad result in terms of the title race? I personally don't. We cannot lose games like this if we want to win the title, in fact we have to win these games if we are to finish top, don't get me wrong I am not panicking but it is not a good sign if we can't take advantage in these more favourable fixtures.

That's my opinion, what do you think?

Cardiff City vs Man City live stream information

Todays match is on SkySports 1 but for those who do not have SkySports there are 37 stations up to now that should be available to watch today's match against Cardiff City.

I know a lot of people are familiar with online streaming now but for those that are not, this should help.

If you go to the following link http://www.wiziwig.tv/broadcast.php?matchid=211442&part=sports then you will see the page that will display the links to watch today's game, the links to the streams will not be displayed until one hour before kick off.

Each link will be run via a different type of software for example you may just be able to click one that will load on your web browser or there will be some where you have to download software.

Each stream will tell you which software it is being run on for example if next to one of the links it says Sopcast you will need to download the Sopcast player software. All software is available via this next link http://www.wiziwig.tv/software.php?part=software .

The best streams to watch are the ones with the higher Kbps rate, so if one stream says 150 Kbps and one says 2000 Kbps then you choose the latter and this will also help you know which software to download so you can get the best possible stream.

A little heads up I always find Sopcast the best software to use, so it would probably be worth downloading that in preparation for when the game links are announced.

Hopefully this was helpful and not confusing. I think everyone should be able to understand once you explore the links, it is quite straight forward.

Enjoy!

Cardiff City vs Man City - Sunday 25th Aug 16:00 pm

Next up is newly promoted Cardiff City, after strolling to three points against Newcastle I expect us to take three points in our first away game of the season.

In my opinion this is going to be a tough game for Cardiff tomorrow and they will have to work extremely hard to avoid being hammered, for me Cardiff have one of the weakest squads in the league. They have made a decent signing in terms of experience in Medel and one that I believe to be a very good signing in Caulker but apart from those two and Bellamy, they are badly lacking in quality.

As for us, we were superb in our first game and I would think that Cardiff's defence will be overwhelmed with the amount of quality they are coming up against. The likes of Navas and Aguero should have a field day against what is effectively, a championship defence at best. Navas in particular is going to be a major problem for Cardiff, he never stopped against Newcastle and his quality did not fade either, it is scary to think that with more Premier League experience he will get better.

Only one issue for us tomorrow and that is the absence of Vincent Kompany, it makes me uneasy when Vinny is out and not just because we will miss his superb defencive skills, Vinny organises the team and breeds confidence. It will also be interesting to see who Pellegrini replaces him with, Nastasic has been training and he will most likely play but if he doesn't quite make it, who will he go with? Garcia is being mentioned as is Boyata, Garcia hasn't done bad when at centre back in pre season and against Newcastle, I however would like to see a once promising Boyata get his chance if Nastasic is not fit.

Man City Team News:
Kompany is missing with the groin injury he picked up against Newcastle, Micah Richards is likely to miss out with what is believed to be a hamstring injury, Nastasic has been training and could return to the squad after suffering with an ankle injury and Jovetic is expected to be in contention after having a minor hamstring problem.

Cardiff City Team News:
Cardiff are expected to be clear of any injuries with Andreas Cornelius set to be fit after suffering with an ankle injury and Andrew Taylor is set to return to the starting line up after serving a suspension.

Possible Man City Line Up: Hart, Zabaleta, Nastasic, Lescott, Clichy, Silva, Toure, Fernandinho, Navas, Aguero, Dzeko.

Possible Cardiff City Line Up: Marshall, Connolly, Caulker, Turner, Taylor, Medel, Gunnarsson, Bellamy, Kim, Campbell, Cornelius.

My Prediction: Cardiff City 0 - 5 Man City.

Worth A Bet: Navas first goal in a 0 - 5 Man City win @ 300/1.