Cardiff City have some points to catch up on from their 18th position, and the job starts vs Reading. Read more!
- Cardiff City have the fewest scored goals in the first half (0) in Championship
- Reading have conceded at least twice as many goals as they have scored away.
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
1-1-3 (win-draw-lost) are the Championship numbers at home for Cardiff City so far this season. It's trouble wherever Cardiff are playing these days as they have suffered four straight defeats now, regardless of arena. They really need to get back to winning ways.
The Cardiff fans got no joy from their last match, a Championship game also here at Cardiff City Stadium: A 0-4 defeat against West Bromwich Albion (placed 1st). As you see from the result above, Cardiff City suffered greatly in their last game. Thankfully the team has a new chance to prove themselves in this one. Midfielder Will Vaulks was the best player on the team with a rating of 7.1 (out of ten) in that game. Vaulks hit two key passes.
A defeat was the result before that one, 1-5 away at Blackburn Rovers.The home team are moderate favourites in this game. How does Cardiff handle that role? We have found 13 games in our database similar to this one, based on the home odds. The stats for these games are seven wins, three draws and three defeats.
The Cardiff City fans would probably like to see some more goals scored at their own stadium in the league, the tally being 5 in 5 matches. With more than 1,5 conceded goals on average, the Cardiff defense is not exactly impregnable. 9 goals conceded from 5 games. You can find more goal stats on the Statistics tab above.
Reading form and stats
The story so far for the visiting team on their Championship travels is 1 win, 0 draws and 4 defeats.
Reading are travelling again after losing away to Derby County in their previous match (0-1). Midfield player John Swift was the top player of the team with a match rating of 7.65/10. Swift hit four key passes, dribled past the opponent 3 of 6 times and had 53 successful passes (of 65 total).
Prior to that match, a home win 1-0 against Middlesbrough.We have checked recent matches where Reading have had similar odds to win. Win-draw-lose statistics from those 15 games were four victories, five draws and six defeats.
Reading find the net regularly in their away games. 5 goals from 5 away fixtures in the league. Reading have conceded 11 goals in these games.
Head 2 Head
H2H stats regardless of arena (last ten matches): Cardiff zero wins, six draws and Reading four victories. As for goals, five matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), five games had two or less.Top Goalscorers
  J. Swift 7 goals |   A. Flint 4 goals |  S. Morrison 2 goals |
Cardiff City missing players
Reading missing players
| Cardiff City | Reading | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 10 | 5 | 2 | Played | P | 1 | 5 | 10 |
| 3 | 1 | 1 | Won | W | 0 | 1 | 4 |
| 2 | 1 | 0 | Drew | D | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 5 | 3 | 1 | Lost | L | 1 | 4 | 5 |
| 12 | 5 | 4 | Scored | S | 0 | 5 | 16 |
| 18 | 9 | 3 | Conceded | C | 1 | 11 | 19 |
| 100% | 100% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 100% | 100% |
| 80% | 80% | 100% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 0% | 80% | 80% |
| 60% | 60% | 100% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 0% | 80% | 80% |
| 40% | 40% | 50% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 0% | 40% | 50% |
| 10% | 0% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 20% | 30% |
| 60% | 60% | 100% | BTTS | BTTS | 0% | 60% | 70% |
| 10% | 0% | 0% | Clean Sheets | C S | 0% | 0% | 10% |
| 30% | 40% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 100% | 40% | 20% |
| 3.9 | 2.8 | 3 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 4 | 3.6 | 3.3 |
| 3.9 | 4.2 | 3 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 2 | 6.4 | 6.1 |
| 1.7 | 1.6 | 2 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 0 | 2 | 1.8 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 11 | 10.2 | 14.5 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 16 | 10.6 | 11.3 |
| 3.9 | 3.8 | 5 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 7 | 3.8 | 4 |
| 31% | 26% | 40% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 0% | 26% | 40% |
- Cardiff City have failed to keep a clean sheet in all their home matches.
- Cardiff City have the fewest scored goals in the first half (0) in Championship
- Cardiff City have won significantly less corners at home than away.
- Cardiff City haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
- Reading have conceded at least twice as many goals as they have scored away.
- Reading have failed to keep a clean sheet in all their away matches.
- Reading haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | West Bromwich Albion | 10 | 6 | 4 | 0 | 20 | 8 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 10 | 4 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 10 | 4 | 12 | 22 |
| 2 | AFC Bournemouth | 10 | 6 | 4 | 0 | 16 | 7 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 11 | 6 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 5 | 1 | 9 | 22 |
| 3 | Fulham | 10 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 22 | 9 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 10 | 4 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 12 | 5 | 13 | 20 |
| 4 | Coventry City | 10 | 6 | 1 | 3 | 12 | 11 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 10 | 2 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 9 | 1 | 19 |
| 5 | Stoke City | 10 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 14 | 11 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 9 | 4 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 7 | 3 | 18 |
| 6 | Blackburn Rovers | 10 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 18 | 12 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 12 | 6 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 16 |
| 7 | Huddersfield Town | 10 | 5 | 1 | 4 | 16 | 14 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 9 | 9 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 7 | 5 | 2 | 16 |
| 8 | Queens Park Rangers | 10 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 19 | 14 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 8 | 5 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 11 | 9 | 5 | 15 |
| 9 | Luton Town | 10 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 18 | 16 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 11 | 8 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 7 | 8 | 2 | 13 |
| 10 | Bristol City | 10 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 11 | 11 | 5 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 8 | 7 | 0 | 13 |
| 11 | Reading | 10 | 4 | 1 | 5 | 16 | 19 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 11 | 8 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 5 | 11 | -3 | 13 |
| 12 | Middlesbrough | 10 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 11 | 11 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 8 | 7 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 0 | 12 |
| 13 | Sheffield United | 10 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 13 | 14 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 10 | 7 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 7 | -1 | 12 |
| 14 | Millwall | 10 | 2 | 6 | 2 | 10 | 11 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 6 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 4 | 6 | -1 | 12 |
| 15 | Birmingham City | 10 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 10 | 12 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 6 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 7 | 6 | -2 | 12 |
| 16 | Blackpool | 10 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 9 | 13 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 6 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 7 | 7 | -4 | 12 |
| 17 | Preston North End | 10 | 2 | 5 | 3 | 10 | 12 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 7 | 7 | 5 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 5 | -2 | 11 |
| 18 | Cardiff City | 10 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 12 | 18 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 9 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 7 | 9 | -6 | 11 |
| 19 | Swansea City | 10 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 9 | 14 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 7 | 11 | -5 | 10 |
| 20 | Nottingham Forest | 10 | 2 | 2 | 6 | 11 | 14 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 9 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 7 | 5 | -3 | 8 |
| 21 | Barnsley | 10 | 1 | 5 | 4 | 7 | 13 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 8 | -6 | 8 |
| 22 | Peterborough United | 10 | 2 | 2 | 6 | 10 | 20 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 7 | 4 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 3 | 16 | -10 | 8 |
| 23 | Hull City | 10 | 1 | 3 | 6 | 6 | 15 | 5 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 8 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 7 | -9 | 6 |
| 24 | Derby County | 10 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 7 | 8 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 5 | 3 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 5 | -1 | 1 |
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