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Rookie is Robins’ prince of assists

PLAYER PROFILE RIO CARDINES BRISTOL CITY FULL-BACK
By Chris Dunlavy

BRISTOL City’s Rio Cardines hasn’t so much taken the Championship by storm as completely rewritten the record books.
When the 20-year-old’s mishit shot was turned into the net by Lorent Tolaj during last weekend’s 4-1 defeat to Southampton, he became the first player in 12 years to provide an assist in five consecutive Championship games.
He is also the youngest player in the Championship era to achieve that milestone and the first to bag five assists in his first six second-tier appeara...

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