Cardiff City vs Hull City full preview

There’s little time for restitution or working hard at the training pitch these days, with both teams having played their last game less than four days ago.

Cardiff City form and stats

The home fans haven’t been spoiled with victories in the Championship this season. Cardiff City have only managed 2 wins, 1 draw and 6 losses from their games here at Cardiff City Stadium.

Cardiff enjoyed a nice away win last time out, playing at Preston North End's place. The match ended 2-1 with James Collins and Mark McGuinness scoring. The victory against Preston North End came after James Collins's winning goal. The Cardiff manager S. Morison was very happy afterwards with the decision to bring on that player in the 46th minute. Midfielder Will Vaulks was the best player on the team with a rating of 7.75 (out of ten) in that game. Vaulks hit the woodwork once, served one assist, hit one key pass and dribled past the opponent 1 of 1 times.

Previous to that game, a home match hosting Huddersfield Town in a game that was won 2-1.

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 13 games) they have won six times, drawn three and lost four.

There's a new game coming up fairly quickly for Cardiff City as they are travelling to their away game against Luton Town in the Championship. That match is three days after this one.

Cardiff City aren't scoring a lot here at Cardiff City Stadium in the league, with only 7 goals from 9 games. With more than 1,5 conceded goals on average, the Cardiff defense is not exactly impregnable. 14 goals conceded from 9 games. You can find more goal stats on the Statistics tab above. Cardiff has at home met teams with this table position (low), three times. It has ended with less than 2.5 goals 2 of 3 times.

Hull City form and stats

The hunting on away grounds haven’t been very fruitful for Hull City so far with only 7 points returning home. The records show 2-1-6 (win-draw-lose).

The Hull City goalkeeper Nathan Baxter is collecting clean sheets like a laundry worker. It's been 201 league minutes without conceding a goal, and counting.

Mallik Wilks and George Honeyman scored in Hull's previous match, the home game against Birmingham City that ended 2-0. Attacker George Honeyman got a player rating of 8.43 in the game. "Man of the match" Honeyman scored one goal and hit five key passes.

Preceding that game was the away victory against Barnsley with the score of 2-0.

We have checked recent matches where Hull City have had similar odds to win. Win-draw-lose statistics from those seven games were zero victories, three draws and four defeats.

A new game in only three days for Hull, the Championship home match versus Millwall. Busy days.

Many goals are not expected from the visiting Hull as they have only managed to score 6 times from 9 away games in the league. As opposed to that, Hull City have seen the ball go into their own net 11 times on the road.

Head 2 Head

Head to head statistics (for the last ten meetings): Cardiff City won four games, three matches ended in a draw and Hull City have three wins. Over 2,5 goals / under 2,5 goals: five / five

Top Goalscorers

A. Flint 4 goals

K. Moore 4 goals

R. Colwill 3 goals

Cardiff City missing players

Hull City missing players