Middlesbrough — Cardiff City 2:2, 17 October: match result

match finished Championship · Matchday 11 Saturday 17 October · 11:30 UTC

Middlesbrough 2th · 21 pts DWWDD

2 : 2 1st half 0:2

Cardiff City 19th · 10 pts DWLWL

venue to be confirmed · referee Tom Nield, England

Match predictionBold

No show from Middlesbrough: under three

83% · Middlesbrough games average 4.2 goals

Prediction landed. We predicted “No show from Middlesbrough: under three”, and the match finished 2:2.

the market is chosen by our model: not always the obvious one, but a likely one

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

Middlesbrough 43% draw 24% Cardiff City 33%

The model was wrong

The most likely outcome was Middlesbrough win, and the match finished 2:2. Fans backed Middlesbrough win — they got it wrong.

fans 32 votes

Middlesbrough 56% draw 16% Cardiff City 28%

Voting closed at kick-off

Match events

full timeline

B. Barry-Murphy 19'

J. Moylan assist: O. Tanner 0-1 22'

J. Bagan 25'

O. Tanner assist: J. Moylan 0-2 45+1'

W. Lankshear for K. Joseph 46'

S. Berhalter for L. Ayling 46'

D. Turnbull for J. Colwill 46'

T. Conway assist: C. Brittain 1-2 58'

W. Lankshear assist: A. Cozier-Duberry 2-2 61'

W. Fish for C. Willock 63'

C. Scanlon for R. Kpakio 73'

M. Arfsten for A. Cozier-Duberry 74'

M. Peart-Harris for R. McGree 79'

I. Davies for O. Tanner 79'

G. Osho 83'

J. Moylan 88'

J. Sarmiento for Neto Borges 89'

Line-ups

starting eleven and bench

Middlesbrough 4-2-3-1 4-1-4-1 Cardiff City

Radek Vitek  
Callum Brittain  12 Luke Ayling  4 Ashley Phillips  30 Neto Borges  
Aidan Morris  29 Adilson Malanda  
Amario Cozier-Duberry  8 Riley McGree  9 Tommy Conway  
Kyle Joseph  

Jack Moylan  
Ollie Tanner  27 Joel Colwill  45 Cian Ashford  16 Chris Willock  
Alex Robertson  
Ronan Kpakio  5 Krystian Bielik  4 Gabriel Osho  3 Joel Bagan  
Nathan Trott  

Middlesbrough bench

18Connor Barron
16Jeremy Sarmiento
19Leo Castledine
17Maximilian Arfsten
14Myles Peart-Harris
3Sam Byram
6Sebastian Berhalter
31Solomon Brynn
7Will Lankshear

Cardiff City bench

23Calum Scanlon
50Charlie Holt
14David Turnbull
30Harry Tyrer
39Isaak Davies
43Paul Moreno
33Rob Tankiewicz
52Troy Perret
2William Fish

Match stats

20 metrics for the full match

51%Possession49%

20Shots6

6Shots on target2

6Shots off target3

8Blocked shots1

15Shots inside box4

5Shots outside box2

81Attacks88

53Dangerous attacks29

3Corners4

2Offsides3

5Fouls4

0Yellow cards1

0Saves5

277Passes271

227Accurate passes225

0Free kicks0

0Throw-ins0

0Goal kicks0

0Penalties0

Middlesbrough

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

How the match went

text generated from our data

Middlesbrough and Cardiff City met on matchday 11 of the Championship on 17 October. Final score — 2:2.

Middlesbrough sit 2th on 21 points after 6 matches (3 wins, 3 draws, 0 losses), unbeaten in 6 matches. Cardiff City sit 19th on 10 points after 5 matches (2 wins, 1 draw, 2 losses).

Season form

all competitions of the season

Middlesbrough last five Cardiff City

DWWDD form DWLWL

6 Matches 5

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

14 — 11 Scored — conceded 11 — 7

2 Points per game 1.4

2.33 Goals scored per game 2.2

1 Clean sheets 0

0 Failed to score 1

unbeaten in 6 Current streak unbeaten in 2

Middlesbrough at home: 4 matches, 2 wins, 2 draws, 0 losses, goals 9—7, 2 points per match.

Cardiff City away: 3 matches, 0 wins, 1 draw, 2 losses, goals 3—5, 0.33 points per match.

League table

after the match

#	Team	P	W	D	L	Goals	Pts
1	Swansea City	10	7	2	1	16—7	23
2	Middlesbrough	10	6	3	1	20—14	21
3	West Ham United	10	5	4	1	29—12	19
…
18	Lincoln City	9	3	2	4	7—11	11
19	Cardiff City	10	2	4	4	16—15	10
20	Norwich City	10	3	0	7	17—20	9

Full Championship table