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Il Blackpool si è garantito il ritorno nella massima divisione inglese dopo essersi imposto per tre reti a due contro un gagliardo Cardiff che era passato due volte in vantaggio. Tutte le segnature sono state realizzate nei primi 45 minuti mentre nel secondo tempo i “tangerines” hanno amministrato la sfida fino al triplice fischio finale. Indossò la maglia del Blackburn il leggendario Stanley Matthews, una delle “vecchie glorie” più celebrate del calcio britannico.
Blackpool 3 – 2 Cardiff
By Paul Fletcher
BBC Sport at Wembley Stadium |
Blackpool twice came from behind to defeat Cardiff and reach the Premier League for the first time after an engaging and, at times, breathtaking final at a sun-soaked Wembley.
The Tangerines won 3-2, with all the goals coming during an opening half of unbelievable excitement and occasionally awful defending.Michael Chopra and Joe Ledley twice put Cardiff ahead with crisp strikes but a Charlie Adam free-kick and a close-range finish from Gary Taylor-Fletcher drew the Lancashire side level on each occasion – before Brett Ormerod struck the winner shortly before the interval with a low strike.The result completes a remarkable season for Blackpool, who can now plan for the top-flight for the first time since the 1970-71 campaign.It also caps a sensational first season in charge for Seasiders boss Ian Holloway, who has stuck to his attacking principles all year and did so again at Wembley by sending his team out in a bold 4-3-3 formation.
Blackpool will arguably be the smallest club to have played in the Premier League, but they can now look forward to rubbing shoulders with English football’s elite after beating Cardiff in a match estimated to be worth £90m to the winners.The result was perhaps a little harsh on the Bluebirds, who struck the woodwork twice through Michael Chopra.Manager Dave Jones saw his Cardiff side have the better of the second half but, after one of the most scintillating opening periods in play-off history, they could not find an equaliser.The Bluebirds’ aim of becoming the first Welsh club to play Premier League football is on hold for at least one more season and rather than celebrating promotion they instead have financial issues to address over the summer.
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They have survived several High Court winding-up orders over the season and have estimated debts of £15m as a Malaysian consortium prepares to invest in the club with Peter Ridsdale standing down as chairman.The match could not have started much better for the Welsh side, who laid down an early marker of intent when Chopra got across Alex Baptiste to toe-poke a cross from Peter Whittingham that smashed against the crossbar after just four minutes.Chopra, a lively and industrious presence throughout, had Jones’s men in front five minutes later when he timed his run perfectly to stay onside before collecting Whittingham’s threaded through ball and drilling his angled shot into the bottom corner.Cardiff looked capable of taking a firm stranglehold on the final but the inspirational Adam quickly restored parity with his left-foot free-kick over the Cardiff wall.
And the match took another twist when the influential Jay Bothroyd, who had already found plenty of space in wide areas, limped off to be replaced by Kelvin Etuhu.Pool enjoyed a period of dominance as the Bluebirds tried to come to terms with their double blow, but Stephen Crainey shot wide and DJ Campbell, who scored a hat-trick in the play-off semi-final second leg against Nottingham Forest, failed to connect with a precise low cross.It was developing into a pulsating encounter and Chopra might have restored Cardiff’s lead from Whittingham’s floated cross but the striker scuffed his volley.Ledley, out of contract this summer, had been relatively anonymous but he collected a delicious return pass from Whittingham before striking the ball beyond Matt Gilks, who got his angles wrong as he advanced out of goal.Cardiff’s joy was again short-lived. Taylor-Fletcher struck the post from 20 yards after 39 minutes but a minute later he stabbed home from a corner after Mark Kennedy had cleared Ian Evatt’s initial effort off the line.
Michael Chopra’s early joy turned to tears at the final whist
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And in first-half injury-time Campbell slipped as he attempted to shoot but the ball ran to Ormerod, who shot beyond David Marshall to put Holloway’s men 3-2 up at the end of a breathtaking half.Cardiff defender Darcy Blake had the ball in the net before the interval but his effort was quite correctly ruled out for offside.Blackpool, fearless to the last, continued to attack after the break and should perhaps have made more from an early promising position but Taylor-Fletcher delayed his pass and Campbell’s eventual shot was blocked.Taylor-Fletcher was replaced by striker Ben Burgess after 53 minutes and shortly afterwards Holloway brought on another forward, Stephen Dobbie, for Ormerod.There were signs of frustration from the Cardiff players, a feeling that only increased after Chopra collected a pass from Chris Burke and drilled another strike against the woodwork.Ledley went close after beating the unsure Gilks to a corner at the near post but his header flew narrowly wide, while Etuhu drew a save from the Tangerines keeper as the Bluebirds mounted a sustained period of pressure.
The second half lacked the you-score, we-score, theatre of the opening 45 minutes but as the match moved into the final 20 minutes of normal time, the players started to tire in the heat and there was an increasing sense of anxiety emanating from the stands.Gilks dropped a cross under pressure from Chopra, with the ball almost running into his own net, but it was Pool who had the better of the late chances as they tried to hit their opponents on the break.Poor decision making prevented Holloway’s team from scoring a fourth but they closed out the match to seal their place in the top flight.
( BBC Football )
New Cardiff City backer Chan urges fans to keep faith
New Cardiff backer Dato Chan Tien Ghee has urged fans to “keep the faith” after Blackpool denied the Bluebirds a place in the Premier League.
Chan saw the Seasiders beat Cardiff 3-2 in the Championship play-off final.”Keep the faith. We’ve come so far, we’ll get up there next time,” he said after suffering Wembley heartbreak.Manager Dave Jones deflected questions on his future, stating: “It’s not the time for all that now. We’re just going to go home and reflect on everything.”Chan – or TG as he is known to Bluebirds’ fans – offered a one-word answer when asked by BBC Sport Wales if the club would now struggle to hold on to Jones: “No”.The Malaysian continued: “Whatever it is today, the message to the fans is separate – we’ll try again. We’ll get up there, alright?”We’ve never lost the faith, we’ve never lost the faith.”
( BBC Football )
Dopo il grande successo di “Lads 2009”
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