Cardiff City — Watford 5:1, 13 October: match result

match finished Championship · Matchday 10 Tuesday 13 October · 18:45 UTC

Cardiff City 19th · 10 pts WDWLW

5 : 1 1st half 4:0

Watford 22th · 8 pts LWLLL

Cardiff City Stadium · referee J. Busby

Match predictionBold

Watford +1.5

77% · Watford games average 3.2 goals

Prediction missed. We predicted “Watford +1.5”, and the match finished 5:1.

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our forecast this is how the model saw the match before kick-off

Cardiff City 50% draw 23% Watford 27%

The model was right

The most likely outcome was Cardiff City win, and the match finished 5:1. Fans backed Cardiff City win — they got it right.

fans 75 votes

Cardiff City 58% draw 14% Watford 28%

Voting closed at kick-off

Match events

full timeline

M. Payero 9'

J. Moylan penalty 1-0 11'

W. Fish for D. Lawlor 29'

J. Moylan assist: C. Ashford 2-0 35'

M. Pollock own goal 3-0 41'

O. Tanner assist: P. Ng 4-0 45+5'

M. Doumbia for M. Boadu 56'

M. Bola for J. Zemura 56'

A. Nabizada for S. Mavididi 56'

I. Bravo for M. Payero 67'

D. Turnbull for J. Moylan 69'

K. Diatta for O. Maamma 69'

C. Scanlon for C. Willock 69'

E. Kayembe 74'

I. Davies for J. Bagan 82'

C. Robinson for O. Tanner 82'

C. Robinson assist: D. Turnbull 5-0 85'

A. Nabizada 86'

P. Ng 86'

H. Kyprianou assist: I. Bravo 5-1 87'

H. Kyprianou 90+5'

Line-ups

starting eleven and bench

Cardiff City 4-1-4-1 4-2-3-1 Watford

Nathan Trott  
Perry Ng  48 Dylan Lawlor  4 Gabriel Osho  3 Joel Bagan  
Alex Robertson  
Ollie Tanner  45 Cian Ashford  27 Joel Colwill  16 Chris Willock  
Jack Moylan  

Myron Boadu  
Othmane Maamma  22 Martín Payero  45 Stephy Mavididi  
Edo Kayembe  5 Hector Kyprianou  
Omar Haktab Traore  6 Matthew Pollock  4 Kévin Keben Biakolo  33 Jordan Zemura  
Federico Ravaglia  

Cardiff City bench

47Callum Robinson
23Calum Scanlon
50Charlie Holt
14David Turnbull
30Harry Tyrer
39Isaak Davies
43Paul Moreno
44Ronan Kpakio
2William Fish

Watford bench

21Amin Nabizada
29Branimir Mlačić
26Daniel Bachmann
17Iker Bravo
15Krépin Diatta
9Luca Kjerrumgaard
20Mamadou Doumbia
16Marc Bola
3Soumaila Coulibaly

Match stats

20 metrics for the full match

58%Possession42%

22Shots14

10Shots on target4

7Shots off target7

5Blocked shots3

14Shots inside box10

8Shots outside box4

124Attacks67

53Dangerous attacks32

6Corners1

4Offsides4

12Fouls12

1Yellow cards4

3Saves6

494Passes358

430Accurate passes282

0Free kicks0

0Throw-ins0

0Goal kicks0

2Penalties0

Cardiff City

WatfordThe source gives no per-half split — only totals for the match

How the match went

text generated from our data

Cardiff City and Watford met on matchday 10 of the Championship on 13 October at Cardiff City Stadium. Final score — 5:1.

Cardiff City sit 19th on 10 points after 6 matches (3 wins, 1 draw, 2 losses), unbeaten in 3 matches. Watford sit 22th on 8 points after 6 matches (1 win, 0 draws, 5 losses).

Season form

all competitions of the season

Cardiff City last five Watford

WDWLW form LWLLL

6 Matches 6

3 — 1 — 2 Wins — draws — defeats 1 — 0 — 5

12 — 7 Scored — conceded 4 — 13

1.67 Points per game 0.5

2 Goals scored per game 0.67

1 Clean sheets 1

1 Failed to score 3

unbeaten in 3 Current streak winless in 1

Cardiff City at home: 3 matches, 3 wins, 0 draws, 0 losses, goals 9—2, 3 points per match.

Watford away: 3 matches, 0 wins, 0 draws, 3 losses, goals 1—7, 0 points per match.

League table

after the match

#	Team	P	W	D	L	Goals	Pts
19	Lincoln City	11	3	3	5	9—19	12
20	Cardiff City	11	2	5	4	18—17	11
21	Watford	11	3	2	6	10—19	11
22	Burnley	11	1	5	5	16—21	8
23	Derby County	12	1	4	7	10—21	7
24	Preston North End	9	1	1	7	8—16	4

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