Young Bluebirds Take On The Hornets In Home Clash

Cardiff City are at home against Watford in a Professional Development League Cup match this afternoon.

The under-23 match is at Cardiff City Stadium (Thursday, 1pm) and the young Bluebirds are looking to repeat their league win against the Hornets during October.

Mark Harris scored both goals in a 2-0 victory at CCS.

Andy Legg and Jarred Harvey are in charge of City’s development squad, who defeated Coventry City 1-0 away earlier this week.

Ibrahim Meite, back with Cardiff after his loan spell at Crawley Town came to an end, scored the only goal of the game.

Former Harrow Borough striker Meite scored three goals in 22 appearances for Crawley, most of those as a substitute.

Rhys Healey and Mark Harris were both in Cardiff’s development team against Coventry, while Scottish centre-half Paul McKay had a close range shot cleared off the line.

Cardiff City’s Ibrahim Meite.

Meite went close to his second goal in the dying moments. He surged into the area before unleashing a powerful curling strike which was tipped wide superbly by the goalkeeper.

Cardiff City: Camp, Coxe, Abbruzzese, Trialist (Humphries 70), Brown, P. McKay, Meite, Waite (Trialist 70), Healey, M Harris, Trialist. Subs not used: Byrne, Trialist, Trialist, Obi.

Fans are welcome to support the young Bluebirds in their cup match against Watford and entry is free. Enter via Gate two at Cardiff City Stadium.

Craig Bellamy’s under-18 team won 2-1 against Bristol City away.

The Bluebirds made two changes from their 2-1 win against Ipswich Town with goalkeeper George Ratcliffe and Harry Pinchard called up in place of Warren Burwood and striker Isaak Davies.

Cardiff went ahead after 12 minutes through top scorer Sion Spence. After a dangerous breakaway, the Welsh youth international showed great composure to round the ‘keeper and give his side a 1-0 lead at half-time.

They doubled that lead on the hour with Connor Davies tapping home from close range.

Despite being on the back foot for large periods of the match, the hosts did reduce the deficit. Marcus Day converted on the rebound Cardiff had the edge for most of this match, but Bristol City pulled a goal back late in the match.

Bristol City pushed for an equaliser but the Bluebirds were able to hold on to all three points.

The win completed a double against Bristol City having beaten the Robins during November.

Cardiff City: Ratcliffe, Reynolds, Jones, Bodenham, J Davies, Patten, C Davies, Wootton, Spence, Bowen, Pinchard. Subs: Margetson, Burwood, Williams, Sharif.

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