Cardiff City News

The London side, relegated from the Premier League last season, will look to complete the job in the return leg at Craven Cottage on Thursday to earn a place in the final at Wembley.

Whittingham moved to Cardiff in 2007 and established himself as the club's legend with a total of 459 appearances and scoring 98 goals before departure from the team in 2017.

Sala, 28, was flying from his previous club Nantes in western France to Wales to join Cardiff City when the Piper Malibu aircraft disappeared over the English Channel. 

Warnock saw his side go down on Saturday after a season overshadowed by the death of the Argentine striker in a plane crash en route to Cardiff in January. 

The defeat left Cardiff four points adrift of Brighton & Hove Albion with two games left and looking likely to join Fulham in the Championship next season.

Fresh from scoring the fastest goal in Premier League history against Watford, Irish striker Shane Long again got Southampton off to a flying start with a goal in the eighth minute, but Dan Gosling equalised eight minutes later. 

The Spaniard scored twice before halftime to put the hosts in command and killed off Southampton late on after Mario Lemina`s goal had revived the Saints.

Tuesday`s 2-0 victory over Brighton & Hove Albion gave 18th-placed Cardiff a lift in their relegation battle as they are now just two points adrift of the safety zone.

Liverpool, who comfortably eased past Porto to reach the semi-finals, will travel to the Nou Camp for the first leg on May 1 with the return leg at Anfield a week later on May 7.

Cardiff, who currently occupy the final relegation spot in 18th place, could pull Brighton within two points of the drop zone with a victory at the Amex Stadium.

Warnock`s 18th-placed Cardiff visit Burnley on Saturday before facing Brighton & Hove Albion, who are five points above them, in a relegation `six-pointer` next Tuesday.

Paterson, who can play as a defender, midfielder or striker, requires an operation on the ankle he injured during Scotland`s win over San Marino.

The Hammers, who had 70 percent possession, brought on Marko Arnautovic for a below-par Felipe Anderson at the interval as Manuel Pellegrini looked to add some life to his attack.

City have not been shy in barging through it and five successive league victories have taken them a point clear with both sides having nine games left to play.

Burnley are in 16th place, five points above Cardiff City who occupy the highest spot in the relegation zone.

Gylfi Sigurdsson and Dominic Calvert-Lewin were both on target as Everton won at the Cardiff City Stadium, leaving the Welsh side a point and a place above the relegation zone.

Camarasa, who joined Cardiff on a season-long loan deal from Spain`s Real Betis in August, has had only seven minutes of action on the pitch since Jan. 19 due to a calf injury.

Cardiff, who are 17th and could fall back into the bottom three after this weekend`s games, pulled a goal back through defender Sol Bamba.

Pereyra, Watford's top scorer in the league with six goals from 24 starts, and Nigeria's Success last played in the club's 1-2 defeat at Tottenham Hotspur in late January.

Ligue 1`s disciplinary commission fined Nantes 16,500 euros after supporters set off flares and threw objects in a league match against St Etienne on January 30, the club`s first game after the Argentine went missing.

The body of the 28-year old Sala, who died in a plane crash last month, was laid out in a gymnasium in the town where he grew up so friends and family could pay their last respects.

Watford became the first team to book a spot in the last eight with a hard-fought 1-0 win over second-tier Queens Park Rangers on Friday, keeping a third consecutive clean sheet in the competition.