Cardiff City vs Derby County: Match guide and preview

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Competition: England Championship
Competition: Sat 18.December
Match begins: 12:30 (UTC)
Venue: Cardiff City Stadium (26828 seats)

Derby County have rested up after their 1-0-match against Blackpool and are looking forward to face Cardiff City. Here's all the info!

Insights:
  • Cardiff City have the fewest clean sheets (1) in Championship
  • Derby County have the most dropped points from leading position (17) in Championship

We should expect both teams to be fresh and ready for this match, as there is some time since both teams last played. Let's have a look at how the teams are doing!

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Cardiff City form and stats

Cardiff City's results here at Cardiff City Stadium in the Championship have been very modest with 2 victories, 1 draw and 8 defeats. Cardiff are very eager to stop a potential losing streak at Cardiff City Stadium, having lost their two previous games here.

Cardiff shared the glory with Birmingham City in their last match, an away game that ended all square 2-2. There was plenty of action in the dying minutes of the game against Birmingham City as McGuinness's goal in the 90th minute completed a cancellation of 0-2 and secured a draw after 90 minutes. Mark McGuinness was "man of the match" with a rating of 7.81 out of 10. The defender McGuinness scored one goal and won 9 of 14 duels.

Ahead of that match, Cardiff lost 2-3 at home to Sheffield United.

The hosts are modest favourites in this match, with the bookmakers estimating the chance of a home win at about 50% +- five percent. It's interesting to look at how Cardiff have performed under similar circumstances, so here are some numbers: When modest favourites like this (we found 14 games) they have won six times, drawn three and lost five.

The goals haven't exactly been flowing for Cardiff City here at Cardiff City Stadium in the league, with less than one goal per game on average (9 from 11 games). Defensively it’s touch-and-go for the home team as 18 goals have been conceded. Cardiff has at home met teams with this table position (low), four times. It has ended with less than 2.5 goals 3 of 4 times.

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Derby County form and stats

There's been little loot from Derby County's travels as they have only collected 8 points from 11 away games in the Championship. Derby County only have 1 win to counter their 5 defeats and 5 draws.

Derby County go into this game after a win, the home game against Blackpool that ended 1-0. Midfield player Max Bird was the top player of the team with a match rating of 7.61/10. Bird hit two key passes and had 34 successful passes (of 42 total).

It was a defeat before that one as the away game against Bristol City wasn't a success with a 0-1 loss.

County are the outsiders in this one, but not by much. Their performance in similar games (being the away team and moderate outsiders) is three wins, four draws and six defeats. From a total of 13 matches.

Goals are few and far between in Derby County's away league games. Only 5 goals from 11 travels. They concede less than a goal on average per away game (10 so far).

Head 2 Head

H2H stats regardless of arena (last ten matches): Cardiff four wins, three draws and Derby County three victories. As for goals, five matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), five games had two or less.

Top Goalscorers

CardiffK. Moore
K. Moore
5 goals
Derby CountyT. Lawrence
T. Lawrence
5 goals
Cardiff CityA. Flint
A. Flint
4 goals

Cardiff City missing players

Derby County missing players

Total First Half Second Half
Cardiff City Derby County
Total Home vs low Statistics Stat vs low Away Total
22 11 4 Played P 4 11 22
6 2 0 Won W 1 1 5
4 1 1 Drew D 0 5 10
12 8 3 Lost L 3 5 7
25 9 2 Scored S 3 5 18
39 18 5 Conceded C 5 10 21
100% 100% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 73% 77%
77% 64% 50% Over 1.5 O 1.5 50% 45% 55%
59% 45% 25% Over 2.5 O 2.5 50% 18% 32%
32% 27% 0% Over 3.5 O 3.5 0% 0% 9%
14% 9% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 0% 5%
55% 45% 50% BTTS BTTS 50% 36% 50%
5% 0% 0% Clean Sheets C S 25% 36% 36%
41% 55% 50% Failed to Score F T 25% 55% 36%
 
4.3 4.1 4.2 Corners for (avg) C F 4.8 4 4
4.9 4.4 3.2 Corners against (avg) C A 4.2 5 4.9
2.1 2 2 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 2.2 1.8 2
1 1 0 Red cards R C 0 2 2
 
11.9 11.8 16.2 Shots (avg) S ( 11 9.6 9.7
4 4 5.8 Shots on Target (avg) S O 3 2.6 2.8
28% 20% 9% Goal Efficiency G E 25% 17% 29%
 
11.5 11.5 6.5 Shots against (avg) S A 9.2 12.9 12.6
4.2 4.3 2.5 Shots on Target against (avg) S O 2.8 3.2 3.7
Key stats in Championship this season:
  • Cardiff City have failed to keep a clean sheet in all their home matches.
  • Cardiff City have the fewest clean sheets (0) at home in Championship
  • Cardiff City have the fewest clean sheets (1) in Championship
  • Cardiff City have the fewest points (7) at home in Championship
  • Cardiff City have the fewest scored goals in the first half (2) in Championship
  • Cardiff City have the most conceded goals (18) at home in Championship
  • Cardiff City have the the worst goal difference (-9) at home in Championship
  • Cardiff City haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
  • Derby County have the most dropped points from leading position (17) in Championship

  Total Home Away  
# Team MP W D L F A MP W D L F A MP W D L F A +/- P
1 Fulham 22 13 6 3 51 18 11 7 3 1 24 7 11 6 3 2 27 11 33 45
2 AFC Bournemouth 22 12 7 3 37 19 11 6 3 2 23 13 11 6 4 1 14 6 18 43
3 West Bromwich Albion 22 11 7 4 30 17 11 7 4 0 17 5 11 4 3 4 13 12 13 40
4 Blackburn Rovers 22 11 6 5 37 27 11 7 2 2 24 16 11 4 4 3 13 11 10 39
5 Queens Park Rangers 21 10 5 6 33 27 11 6 3 2 16 10 10 4 2 4 17 17 6 35
6 Stoke City 22 10 5 7 26 21 11 6 3 2 15 9 11 4 2 5 11 12 5 35
7 Coventry City 22 9 7 6 29 26 11 7 2 2 20 10 11 2 5 4 9 16 3 34
8 Nottingham Forest 22 8 7 7 30 24 11 3 3 5 12 15 11 5 4 2 18 9 6 31
9 Middlesbrough 22 8 6 8 24 23 11 5 2 4 15 12 11 3 4 4 9 11 1 30
10 Huddersfield Town 22 8 6 8 25 25 11 6 2 3 15 12 11 2 4 5 10 13 0 30
11 Millwall 22 7 9 6 24 24 11 5 4 2 14 11 11 2 5 4 10 13 0 30
12 Luton Town 22 7 8 7 31 27 11 4 4 3 17 13 11 3 4 4 14 14 4 29
13 Sheffield United 21 8 5 8 28 28 10 4 2 4 15 11 11 4 3 4 13 17 0 29
14 Preston North End 22 7 7 8 24 28 11 5 4 2 15 12 11 2 3 6 9 16 -4 28
15 Birmingham City 22 7 6 9 22 26 11 4 3 4 12 14 11 3 3 5 10 12 -4 27
16 Swansea City 22 7 6 9 26 31 11 4 4 3 14 12 11 3 2 6 12 19 -5 27
17 Blackpool 22 7 6 9 20 26 11 4 2 5 7 12 11 3 4 4 13 14 -6 27
18 Bristol City 22 7 6 9 24 32 11 3 5 3 9 10 11 4 1 6 15 22 -8 27
19 Hull City 22 6 5 11 19 26 11 3 3 5 11 14 11 3 2 6 8 12 -7 23
20 Cardiff City 22 6 4 12 25 39 11 2 1 8 9 18 11 4 3 4 16 21 -14 22
21 Reading 22 8 3 11 27 34 11 4 3 4 16 16 11 4 0 7 11 18 -7 21
22 Peterborough United 22 5 4 13 19 41 11 4 4 3 14 11 11 1 0 10 5 30 -22 19
23 Barnsley 22 2 7 13 15 34 11 2 3 6 8 15 11 0 4 7 7 19 -19 13
24 Derby County 22 5 10 7 18 21 11 4 5 2 13 11 11 1 5 5 5 10 -3 4

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Table
  Total Home Away  
# Team MP W D L F A MP W D L F A MP W D L F A +/- P
1 Fulham 22 13 6 3 51 18 11 7 3 1 24 7 11 6 3 2 27 11 33 45
2 AFC Bournemouth 22 12 7 3 37 19 11 6 3 2 23 13 11 6 4 1 14 6 18 43
3 West Bromwich Albion 22 11 7 4 30 17 11 7 4 0 17 5 11 4 3 4 13 12 13 40
4 Blackburn Rovers 22 11 6 5 37 27 11 7 2 2 24 16 11 4 4 3 13 11 10 39
5 Queens Park Rangers 21 10 5 6 33 27 11 6 3 2 16 10 10 4 2 4 17 17 6 35
6 Stoke City 22 10 5 7 26 21 11 6 3 2 15 9 11 4 2 5 11 12 5 35
7 Coventry City 22 9 7 6 29 26 11 7 2 2 20 10 11 2 5 4 9 16 3 34
8 Nottingham Forest 22 8 7 7 30 24 11 3 3 5 12 15 11 5 4 2 18 9 6 31
9 Middlesbrough 22 8 6 8 24 23 11 5 2 4 15 12 11 3 4 4 9 11 1 30
10 Huddersfield Town 22 8 6 8 25 25 11 6 2 3 15 12 11 2 4 5 10 13 0 30
11 Millwall 22 7 9 6 24 24 11 5 4 2 14 11 11 2 5 4 10 13 0 30
12 Luton Town 22 7 8 7 31 27 11 4 4 3 17 13 11 3 4 4 14 14 4 29
13 Sheffield United 21 8 5 8 28 28 10 4 2 4 15 11 11 4 3 4 13 17 0 29
14 Preston North End 22 7 7 8 24 28 11 5 4 2 15 12 11 2 3 6 9 16 -4 28
15 Birmingham City 22 7 6 9 22 26 11 4 3 4 12 14 11 3 3 5 10 12 -4 27
16 Swansea City 22 7 6 9 26 31 11 4 4 3 14 12 11 3 2 6 12 19 -5 27
17 Blackpool 22 7 6 9 20 26 11 4 2 5 7 12 11 3 4 4 13 14 -6 27
18 Bristol City 22 7 6 9 24 32 11 3 5 3 9 10 11 4 1 6 15 22 -8 27
19 Hull City 22 6 5 11 19 26 11 3 3 5 11 14 11 3 2 6 8 12 -7 23
20 Cardiff City 22 6 4 12 25 39 11 2 1 8 9 18 11 4 3 4 16 21 -14 22
21 Reading 22 8 3 11 27 34 11 4 3 4 16 16 11 4 0 7 11 18 -7 21
22 Peterborough United 22 5 4 13 19 41 11 4 4 3 14 11 11 1 0 10 5 30 -22 19
23 Barnsley 22 2 7 13 15 34 11 2 3 6 8 15 11 0 4 7 7 19 -19 13
24 Derby County 22 5 10 7 18 21 11 4 5 2 13 11 11 1 5 5 5 10 -3 4

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The English Football League Championship (usually shortened to the Championship) is the second highest division in the English football league system. 24 teams play 46 fixtures from August to May, meeting each other twice. The Championship is the wealthiest second-level division in the world.