Cardiff City have ‘trained very seriously’ to face ‘dangerous’ Mansfield Town in League One final day clash
Cardiff City manager Brian Barry-Murphy insists his side are not taking their foot off the gas for their final game of the season against Mansfield Town.
Despite already guaranteeing their promotion to the Championship, the Bluebirds are treating their upcoming clash at the One Call Stadium like any other match this campaign.
Cardiff are comfortably in the automatic promotion spots, sitting pretty with 91 points in second place, a hefty 16 ahead of Bolton in third. Barry-Murphy’s side beat Stags 3-0 at the last time of asking in November but both teams will be eager to end their individually impressive campaigns on a high.
Nigel Clough has been determined not to let a team do the double over them this season, while Bluebirds will want to keep their seven-game unbeaten run alive. Barry-Murphy had a lot of praise for Stags during his pre-match press conference and stressed his side ‘won’t be messing around’ when it comes to their performance at the weekend.
“They’re a very good team with an exceptional manager and have shown throughout the course of season how good they are,” the Cardiff boast told club media. “We’re looking forward to it very much, however It’ll be a real tough challenge but one we’re ready for.
“Mansfield have shown how dangerous they can be and their record in the cup competitions would have probably grabbed everyone's attention. We knew ourselves a lot about them before we played them at home, so we know of their clear strengths and we’ll try our best to overcome those.”
Cardiff City have ‘trained very seriously’ ahead of Mansfield Town showdown
When asked about potential squad rotation for this final hurdle in the season, Barry-Murphy said: “It’ll be the pretty much the same squad as last week for us. We will see in training what we think is the best players for the game will be but it’s like I said, there will be no messing about from us and we are aiming try to do our best in the game to get three points.
“We’ve trained very seriously and are preparing for the game in a manner that our supporters would expect. I’m very pleased with the condition of the players and how we’ve looked in training in so, we will be trying our best to produce a good performance to trying to win.”