When Cardiff City's team for the Middlesbrough game was published, there was a notable difference not only to the personnel, but the system the Bluebirds would deploy.
Cardiff had stuck to a fairly rigid 4-3-3 system in their first eight games of the season, which yielded two 1-0 wins with mixed results dotted in there.
A couple of areas of concern had emerged during the first portion of the campaign, though. Cardiff's lack of goals were becoming troublesome, while Perry Ng's contribution going forward was being outweighed by a couple of goals conceding through aerial inferiority.
