Chris Wilder believes Cardiff City can thrive in the Championship this season, despite the Bluebirds have not following Wrexham and Birmingham’s lead by spending big after promotion from League One.<\/b><\/p>\n
Sheffield United boss Wilder was happy to leave the Cardiff City Stadium with a point on Saturday despite the fact they led for much of the first half.<\/p>\n
Cardiff included only two players \u2013 Jack Moylan and debutant Krystian Bielik \u2013 who were not part of Brian Barry-Murphy’s promotion-winning squad last season.<\/p>\n
Yet Wilder, a four-time promotion winner in his managerial career, said he was “really impressed” by a Cardiff side he described as being “really difficult to deal with”.<\/p>\n
“I know they’ve not gone and signed player after player after player like maybe the teams that got promoted last year did in terms of Wrexham and Birmingham,” Wilder said.<\/p>\n
“[It is] a different situation, different scenario, but they are well coached by Brian. You’ve got to give credit to Brian and his coaches and his team.<\/p>\n
“I’ve been here [at Cardiff] when it’s been a negative environment, but it was a real positive environment. The Cardiff fans got right behind the team and gave them the lift and the energy to go and try to get a big free three points.<\/p>\n
“They’re going to be a difficult team to play against if they if they continue in the way they’ve started the season.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Chris Wilder believes Cardiff City can thrive in the Championship this season, despite the Bluebirds have not following…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1176832,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[8817],"tags":[748,393,4884,1620,16,15],"class_list":["post-1176831","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sheffield","tag-britain","tag-england","tag-great-britain","tag-sheffield","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/117183157808471926","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1176831","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1176831"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1176831\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1176832"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1176831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1176831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1176831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}