Griffin anticipates exciting game

Last updated : 16 May 2011 By BBC Sport

Reading full-back Andy Griffin says he is expecting a good game at Cardiff City in the Championship play-off semi-final second leg on Tuesday.The tie stands at 0-0 and Griffin told BBC Berkshire: "You'd imagine that it's going to be a draw penalties, simply because of our previous games.

"We are going out to try to win the game and Cardiff City will have the same attitude.

"So it's going to be an interesting and fast-flowing game."

All three games this season between Reading and Cardiff have ended in draws and chances were few and far between in the match at the Madejski Stadium on Friday night.

Reading are hoping to have Jimmy Kebe available, who has missed the last five games through injury, while Cardiff will be anxiously awaiting news of the scan on Craig Bellamy's hamstring after he limped off early in the first leg.

Griffin said he was not thinking too much about Bellamy's fitness.

"You want to play against the best players and he's certainly one of the best players in this league," he admitted. "But I'm not really thinking about if Craig will or will not be playing.

"I'm more interested in hopefully getting Jimmy out there because he's simply been nothing short of mesmerising and fully deserves the accolades that he's got this year.

"He's taken his form on from last season to this season, particularly in the second half - as have most of the players, hence we finished where we finished."

Source: BBC Sport

Source: BBC Sport