Cardiff boss Malky Mackay can take his mind off league matters for a day or was so with the next game tomorrow has it's a Carling Cup fixture. Well maybe not because he is likely to use the game against Division 1 club Huddersfield with one eye on the league trip to Portsmouth on Saturday. In the win over Oxford United in the last round, Mackay made wholesale changes to the team that opened the league season at West Ham on the previous Sunday, but he is unlikely to do the same for the Huddersfield game. With the number of injuries mainly in the midfield, he would be hard pushed to make too many changes anyway. Talking in the press on the subject Mackay said,
"There's not a huge change-around to happen, we've got another four or five players that can come in. "But that apart, we're playing against a good team on Tuesday night and we've got to try and get through the tie."
So what can we expect? Tom Heaton in goal should be on the cards with a sprinkling of fringe players up front Miller and Earnshaw have not come out all guns blazing so would he give them the start or plum for Parkin and Gestede maybe. It will be the first time Cardiff and Huddersfield would have met in a cup competition and in the league, it is 2002/2003 when Cardiff won 4-0 at the old Ninian Park.
In the league, they have yet to taste defeat and beat Notts County away to face the trip to the Cardiff City stadium. If Cardiff City goes through to the next round, the draw for the Round three will take place Saturday on Sky Sports Soccer Saturday.
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