Overview
- Port Vale face Cardiff at Vale Park on Thursday, August 7, with kick-off at 8 pm BST live on Sky Sports Football
- Cardiff opened their League One campaign with a 2-1 comeback win over Peterborough in Brian Barry-Murphy’s managerial debut
- Ten members of Cardiff’s starting XI are aged 23 or under as the Bluebirds pursue an immediate return to the Championship
- Port Vale will seek their first point of the season after a 2-1 defeat at Rotherham that saw them reduced to ten men in the first half
- Vale Park proved a stronghold in League Two last term with just four home defeats, setting up a test of Cardiff’s inconsistent away form