npower Championship
Sunday 8th August 2010, 12:35pm
All the big match reaction:
Match highlights (6m30s), on BladesPlayer
Match report
Blackwell reaction
Match gallery
As it happened:
Sub: Mark Yeates on (87m) for Jamie Ward
Yellow: Jamie Ward (77m) dissent
Sub: Daniel Bogdanovic on (67m) for Ched Evans
Sub: Rob Kozluk on (67m) for Leon Britton
Goal: Jay Bothroyd (61m)
Sub: Ross McCormack on (54m) for Gavin Rae
Yellow: Jay Bothroyd (34m) unsporting behaviour
Yellow: Ched Evans (34m) unsporting behaviour
Red: Matt Lowton (34m) dangerous play
GOAL: Ched Evans (24m)
Confirmed Teams
Leon Britton and Johnny Ertl make their first competitive starts for the Blades in the season opener at Cardiff City.
Steve Simonsen plays for the first time as a full-time Blade, whilst youngster Matt Lowton starts at the expense of Rob Kozluk.
The personnel on show will have Cardiff boss Dave Jones guessing with regards to United's formation and the positions they will take up.
Maltese striker Daniel Bogdanovic has to be content with a place on the six-man bench, where he joined by Academy graduates Kingsley James and Jordan Chapell.
The home side give a debut to Danny Drinkwater but Jason Koumas misses out through injury. The Cardiff bench includes just four substitutes.
Cardiff: Marshall, McNaughton, Rae, Hudson, Gyepes, Whittingham, Chopra, Bothroyd, Burke, Drinkwater, Blake.
Subs: Gerrard, Heaton, Matthews, McCormack.
Blades: Simonsen, Montgomery, Morgan, Ertl, Britton, Evans, Taylor, Cresswell, Ward, Quinn, Lowton.
Subs: Bogdanovic, Yeates, Aksalu, Kozluk, James, Chapell.
All the big match build up:
Blackie's preview, on BladesPlayer
Team news
Confident Monty on opener
Quinn - different game this time
Gaffer's preview
Cardiff City - four in focus
Britton - togetherness is key
Monty ready, on BladesPlayer
