Wolverhampton Wanderers — Cardiff City 3:0, 31 October: match result

match finished Championship · Matchday 13 Saturday 31 October · 15:00 UTC

Wolverhampton Wanderers 2th · 27 pts DWWWD

3 : 0 1st half 2:0

Cardiff City 18th · 15 pts WDLWD

Molineux Stadium · referee J. Smith

Match predictionSafe

Under 4.5 goals

89% · Wolverhampton Wanderers concede 0.8 goals per game

Prediction landed. We predicted “Under 4.5 goals”, and the match finished 3:0.

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

Wolverhampton Wanderers 46% draw 26% Cardiff City 28%

The model was right

The most likely outcome was Wolverhampton Wanderers win, and the match finished 3:0. Fans backed Wolverhampton Wanderers win — they got it right.

fans 58 votes

Wolverhampton Wanderers 53% draw 16% Cardiff City 31%

Voting closed at kick-off

Match events

full timeline

F. Lopez assist: H. Bueno 1-0 11'

A. Armstrong assist: R. Said 2-0 15'

A. Armstrong 26'

Andre 42'

F. Lopez 50'

J. Bagan 56'

L. Krejci assist: K. Trippier 3-0 58'

J. Bellegarde 62'

R. Colwill 90+2'

Line-ups

starting eleven and bench

Wolverhampton Wanderers 4-2-3-1 4-2-3-1 Cardiff City

José Sá  
Kieran Trippier  15 Yerson Mosquera  37 Ladislav Krejčí  3 Hugo Bueno  
André  5 Marshall Munetsi  
Fer López  8 Jordan James  19 Rafiki Saïd  
Adam Armstrong  

Yousef Salech  
Ollie Tanner  8 Jack Moylan  16 Chris Willock  
Joel Colwill  18 Alex Robertson  
Perry Ng  2 William Fish  3 Joel Bagan  23 Calum Scanlon  
Nathan Trott  

Wolverhampton Wanderers bench

38Jackson Tchatchoua
27Jean-Ricner Bellegarde
13João Virgínia
36Mateus Mané
21Rodrigo Gomes
14Sean Neave
23Tawanda Chirewa
20Tommy Doyle
24Toti Gomes

Cardiff City bench

50Charlie Holt
45Cian Ashford
14David Turnbull
30Harry Tyrer
40Noah Anyadike
43Paul Moreno
33Rob Tankiewicz
44Ronan Kpakio
10Rubin Colwill

Match stats

20 metrics for the full match

39%Possession61%

13Shots13

4Shots on target9

7Shots off target2

2Blocked shots2

10Shots inside box8

3Shots outside box5

60Attacks92

28Dangerous attacks45

3Corners5

1Offsides2

20Fouls8

4Yellow cards2

9Saves1

303Passes495

226Accurate passes413

0Free kicks0

0Throw-ins0

0Goal kicks0

0Penalties0

Wolverhampton Wanderers

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

How the match went

text generated from our data

Wolverhampton Wanderers and Cardiff City met on matchday 13 of the Championship on 31 October at Molineux Stadium. Final score — 3:0.

Wolverhampton Wanderers sit 2th on 27 points after 10 matches (6 wins, 2 draws, 2 losses), unbeaten in 6 matches, 4 matches without conceding. Cardiff City sit 18th on 15 points after 9 matches (4 wins, 2 draws, 3 losses).

Season form

all competitions of the season

Wolverhampton Wanderers last five Cardiff City

DWWWD form WDLWD

10 Matches 9

6 — 2 — 2 Wins — draws — defeats 4 — 2 — 3

13 — 8 Scored — conceded 20 — 17

2 Points per game 1.56

1.3 Goals scored per game 2.22

4 Clean sheets 1

1 Failed to score 2

unbeaten in 6 Current streak unbeaten in 2

Wolverhampton Wanderers at home: 5 matches, 3 wins, 1 draw, 1 loss, goals 7—4, 2 points per match.

Cardiff City away: 4 matches, 0 wins, 1 draw, 3 losses, goals 3—8, 0.25 points per match.

League table

after the match

#	Team	P	W	D	L	Goals	Pts
2	Middlesbrough	14	8	4	2	30—19	28
3	Wolverhampton Wanderers	15	8	4	3	26—18	28
4	Birmingham City	14	7	5	2	26—13	26
…
17	Bolton Wanderers	15	5	2	8	20—29	17
18	Cardiff City	14	3	6	5	22—23	15
19	Lincoln City	14	4	3	7	14—24	15

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