{"id":24277,"date":"2018-02-02T12:35:25","date_gmt":"2018-02-02T12:35:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/?p=24277"},"modified":"2018-02-02T12:35:25","modified_gmt":"2018-02-02T12:35:25","slug":"bluebirds-take-new-signing-traore-leeds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/2018\/02\/02\/bluebirds-take-new-signing-traore-leeds\/","title":{"rendered":"Bluebirds take new signing Traore to Leeds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>DEADLINE day signing Armand Traore is set to start at left back when Cardiff City travel to Leeds United tomorrow (Feb 3).<br \/>\nThe visitors head to Elland Road with two wins in their last six games and a defeat against Manchester City in the fourth round of the FA Cup.<br \/>\nLeeds are on a poor run of form and have lost four of their last six in all competitions. They sit 10<sup>th<\/sup> in the table, seven points behind Cardiff in fourth.<br \/>\n<strong>Team News<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>Cardiff will be without Joe Bennet following his red card late on against Manchester City. \u00a0Armand Traore from Nottingham Forest is set to start at left back.<br \/>\nNeil Warnock was busy on deadline day and signed Gary Madine for \u00a35 million from Bolton. Jamie Ward was involved in a swap deal with Lee Tomlin for Nottingham Forest and he will be looking to push Kenneth Zohore for a start upfront.<br \/>\nLeeds were also busy in the transfer window signing striker Tyler Roberts from West Brom for \u00a32.5 million. Injuries and suspensions have taken a toll on Leeds with six first-team players unavailable.<br \/>\nLeeds coach Thomas Christiansen will be hoping Matthew Pannington passes a late fitness test as he only has one centre-back fit.<br \/>\nKick-off is 3pm.<br \/>\n<strong>Predicted line-ups<\/strong><br \/>\nCardiff City; 4-2-3-1<br \/>\n<figure id=\"attachment_24281\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-24281\" style=\"width: 327px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-24281\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2018\/02\/Screen-Shot-2018-02-01-at-2.01.33-PM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"327\" height=\"407\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2018\/02\/Screen-Shot-2018-02-01-at-2.01.33-PM.png 327w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2018\/02\/Screen-Shot-2018-02-01-at-2.01.33-PM-241x300.png 241w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2018\/02\/Screen-Shot-2018-02-01-at-2.01.33-PM-293x365.png 293w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 327px) 100vw, 327px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-24281\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-24281\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2018\/02\/Screen-Shot-2018-02-01-at-2.01.33-PM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"327\" height=\"407\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2018\/02\/Screen-Shot-2018-02-01-at-2.01.33-PM.png 327w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2018\/02\/Screen-Shot-2018-02-01-at-2.01.33-PM-241x300.png 241w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2018\/02\/Screen-Shot-2018-02-01-at-2.01.33-PM-293x365.png 293w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 327px) 100vw, 327px\" \/><\/noscript> Predicted Cardiff Team<\/figcaption><\/figure><br \/>\nLeeds United; 4-2-3-1<br \/>\n<figure id=\"attachment_24282\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-24282\" style=\"width: 330px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-24282\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2018\/02\/Screen-Shot-2018-02-01-at-1.58.39-PM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"330\" height=\"418\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2018\/02\/Screen-Shot-2018-02-01-at-1.58.39-PM.png 330w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2018\/02\/Screen-Shot-2018-02-01-at-1.58.39-PM-237x300.png 237w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2018\/02\/Screen-Shot-2018-02-01-at-1.58.39-PM-293x371.png 293w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 330px) 100vw, 330px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-24282\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-24282\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2018\/02\/Screen-Shot-2018-02-01-at-1.58.39-PM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"330\" height=\"418\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2018\/02\/Screen-Shot-2018-02-01-at-1.58.39-PM.png 330w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2018\/02\/Screen-Shot-2018-02-01-at-1.58.39-PM-237x300.png 237w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2018\/02\/Screen-Shot-2018-02-01-at-1.58.39-PM-293x371.png 293w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 330px) 100vw, 330px\" \/><\/noscript> Predicted Leeds team<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DEADLINE day signing Armand Traore is set to start at left back when Cardiff City travel to Leeds United tomorrow (Feb 3). The visitors head to Elland Road with two wins in their last six games and a defeat against Manchester City in the fourth round of the FA Cup. Leeds are on a poor run of form and have lost four of their last six in all competitions. They sit 10th in the table, seven points behind Cardiff in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":135,"featured_media":22863,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[113],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-24277","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorised"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Bluebirds take new signing Traore to Leeds - The Cardiffian<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/2018\/02\/02\/bluebirds-take-new-signing-traore-leeds\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Bluebirds take new signing Traore to Leeds - The Cardiffian\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"DEADLINE day signing Armand Traore is set to start at left back when Cardiff City travel to Leeds United tomorrow (Feb 3). 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