Saturday 21st February, ko 12:30pm
Live on Sky Sports +
Match Officials:
Referee: Darren Drysdale
Assistant Referee: Jack Clench
Assistant Referee: Declan O'Shea
Fourth Official: Harrison Blair
Plymouth's last home game was a 1 - 4 defeat to Lincoln. Since then they've won two on the road scoring seven goals as the won at Blackpool and Orient in the past few days.
It's an early kick off at Home Park. The teams 2nd - 6th, Lincoln, Bolton, Bradford, Stockport and Huddersfield all kick off at 3pm in their games.
Centre-back Gabriel Osho should be available for Saturday's League One trip to Plymouth Argyle (12:30 GMT) after missing Tuesday's 4-1 win over AFC Wimbledon, but forward Isaak Davies remains a doubt following concussion.
"We anticipate both will train this afternoon," said Brian Barry-Murphy.
"In Gabriel's case, it should be pretty straightforward. Isaak less so, just going to see how he reacts to his first exposure with the team and take it from there."
“They’re (Plymouth) back in flying form and making great strides,” Brian began. "It’s been very clear how well they’ve started games and the type of football they’ve played has been very good, so we know that we’ll have to be at our best from the very start, otherwise we won’t be good enough.
“It will be a great test for us, and more often than not a great playing pitch, so I’m really looking forward to that.
“We’ll try our best to play at the intensity that we know we need to be at to be competitive, play our best game and try to win.”
“I think that we’re in really good form,” Brian continued. “Individually, the players are feeling the competitiveness of the squad to compete against each other to get on and play.
“We have to be focussed on today, to try to prepare as best as we can tomorrow, and then see where we are on Saturday.
“I think that the players are focussed firstly on getting in the squad, and then trying to play well and give ourselves a chance to win. At the moment we’re doing that, and we’ll have to try to get that to continue.”
Plymouth Argyle press conference
- Across Plymouth Argyle’s last 15 home league games against Cardiff City, both sides have won three matches each (D9) with the last finishing 1-1 in February last year.
- After winning the reverse fixture 4-0 in August last year, Cardiff City will be looking to complete just a second league double over Plymouth Argyle after the 1948-49 season.
- Plymouth have failed to win any of their last five league games against sides from Wales (D1 L4), losing their last two by a combined 7-0 scoreline. The Pilgrims haven’t lost three in a row to Welsh opponents since December 2009.
- Cardiff are unbeaten across their last five away league games (W2 D3), last enjoying a longer run on the road between April-September 2021 (six games).
