Open game expected at The John Smith's Stadium: Huddersfield Town vs Cardiff City preview

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Competition: England Championship
Competition: Wed 12.February
Match begins: 19:45 (UTC)
Venue: The John Smith's Stadium (24500 seats)

Struggling Huddersfield Town will be hoping to pull off an upset when they welcome high-flying Cardiff City in the upcoming league round. It's 19th vs 8th and the home crowd will have moderate expectations.

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.

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Huddersfield Town form and stats

The story so far in the Championship for Huddersfield Town at their home stadium (The John Smith's Stadium) is 5 wins, 5 draws and 6 defeats.

A nice win for Huddersfield Town last time playing, versus Queens Park Rangers. That was also a home game and the match ended 2-0 with Elias Kachunga and Steve Mounié scoring for the victors. Prior to that, an away loss at Fulham.

This is expected to be a close game, with Huddersfield Town perhaps considered small favourites due to their home advantage. Looking back at earlier matches similar to this one (expected to be close with Huddersfield Town as a small favourite), we find nine games. Huddersfield Town has won five of these, drawn two and lost two.

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

Huddersfield Town has scored 18 league goals at home this season, in 16 matches. On the other hand, Huddersfield Town have conceded 21 goals.

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Cardiff City form and stats

Cardiff City have only collected 16 points from their away games in the Championship, after 3-7-6 (16 played).

Cardiff City play their second away game in a row, but can be confident going into this one after the 1-0 victory visiting Luton Town (placed 24th). Preceding that match was the 3-3 draw at home vs Reading (after extra-time, 1-4 on penalties).

As mentioned above, this is an open game with no clear favourite. We have found nine similar matches played by Cardiff City in our archives, and the results are: one win for Cardiff City, five draws and three defeats.

After this away game Cardiff City return home for a Championship game against Wigan Athletic. That game is only three sleeps after this.

Cardiff City are scoring more than one goal per away game on average, having accumulated 21 away goals from 16 games (in the league). In the opposite end, Cardiff City have conceded 31 goals in their away games.

Head 2 Head

This is not the first time this season these parties meet, as the history books show this recent fixture: Cardiff City - Huddersfield Town 2-1. H2H stats regardless of arena (last ten matches): Huddersfield Town zero wins, four draws and Cardiff City six victories. As for goals, five matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), five games had two or less.

Top Goalscorers

Huddersfield TownK. Ahearne-Grant
K. Ahearne-Grant
13 goals
Cardiff CityL. Tomlin
L. Tomlin
7 goals
Huddersfield TownS. Mounié
S. Mounié
6 goals

Huddersfield Town missing players

Cardiff City missing players

Total First Half Second Half
Huddersfield Town Cardiff City
Total Home vs top Statistics Stat vs low Away Total
31 16 4 Played P 4 16 31
9 5 1 Won W 1 3 11
8 5 1 Drew D 1 7 13
14 6 2 Lost L 2 6 7
37 18 3 Scored S 6 21 43
48 21 5 Conceded C 11 31 43
94% 88% 75% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 94% 90%
81% 88% 75% Over 1.5 O 1.5 75% 75% 71%
52% 44% 50% Over 2.5 O 2.5 75% 62% 52%
19% 6% 0% Over 3.5 O 3.5 75% 44% 29%
13% 6% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 50% 25% 19%
65% 56% 50% BTTS BTTS 75% 69% 65%
23% 25% 25% Clean Sheets C S 25% 19% 26%
19% 31% 50% Failed to Score F T 0% 19% 19%
 
5 5.8 5.8 Corners for (avg) C F 6.8 4.9 4.8
4.8 4.1 5.8 Corners against (avg) C A 4.8 6.7 5.9
2.1 1.8 2 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 2.2 1.8 1.6
1 1 0 Red cards R C 0 1 2
 
304 176 33 Total Shots T S 62 195 376
111 62 9 Shots on Target S O 15 63 115
33% 29% 33% Goal Efficiency G E 40% 33% 37%
Key stats in Championship this season:
  • Cardiff City have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.

  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 30 15 11 4 53 33 15 7 6 2 32 20 15 8 5 2 21 13 20 56
2 Leeds United 31 16 7 8 46 29 15 8 4 3 22 13 16 8 3 5 24 16 17 55
3 Fulham 31 16 7 8 46 32 16 10 2 4 29 18 15 6 5 4 17 14 14 55
4 Nottingham Forest 31 15 9 7 43 30 15 8 3 4 20 15 16 7 6 3 23 15 13 54
5 Brentford 31 16 5 10 52 25 15 9 3 3 28 12 16 7 2 7 24 13 27 53
6 Preston North End 31 14 8 9 45 36 16 10 3 3 32 19 15 4 5 6 13 17 9 50
7 Bristol City 31 14 8 9 45 43 15 6 4 5 21 21 16 8 4 4 24 22 2 50
8 Cardiff City 31 11 13 7 43 43 15 8 6 1 22 12 16 3 7 6 21 31 0 46
9 Swansea City 31 12 10 9 37 37 16 7 3 6 21 19 15 5 7 3 16 18 0 46
10 Millwall 30 11 12 7 38 35 14 8 4 2 23 14 16 3 8 5 15 21 3 45
11 Sheffield Wednesday 31 12 8 11 41 34 15 6 5 4 14 15 16 6 3 7 27 19 7 44
12 Blackburn Rovers 31 12 8 11 43 38 16 7 6 3 19 14 15 5 2 8 24 24 5 44
13 Derby County 31 11 10 10 38 41 16 9 5 2 23 11 15 2 5 8 15 30 -3 43
14 Hull City 31 11 7 13 43 44 16 6 2 8 23 24 15 5 5 5 20 20 -1 40
15 Birmingham City 31 11 7 13 40 48 15 6 3 6 22 22 16 5 4 7 18 26 -8 40
16 Reading 31 10 9 12 37 35 15 6 2 7 20 19 16 4 7 5 17 16 2 39
17 Queens Park Rangers 31 11 5 15 47 56 16 6 4 6 29 28 15 5 1 9 18 28 -9 38
18 Middlesbrough 31 8 12 11 32 40 16 6 7 3 16 15 15 2 5 8 16 25 -8 36
19 Huddersfield Town 31 9 8 14 37 48 16 5 5 6 18 21 15 4 3 8 19 27 -11 35
20 Stoke City 31 10 4 17 39 47 16 6 3 7 22 21 15 4 1 10 17 26 -8 34
21 Charlton Athletic 31 8 9 14 40 45 16 6 5 5 22 19 15 2 4 9 18 26 -5 33
22 Wigan Athletic 31 7 8 16 29 46 15 5 4 6 15 20 16 2 4 10 14 26 -17 29
23 Barnsley 31 5 10 16 37 57 16 4 7 5 25 30 15 1 3 11 12 27 -20 25
24 Luton Town 31 7 3 21 37 66 15 5 3 7 23 25 16 2 0 14 14 41 -29 24

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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 West Bromwich Albion 30 15 11 4 53 33 15 7 6 2 32 20 15 8 5 2 21 13 20 56
2 Leeds United 31 16 7 8 46 29 15 8 4 3 22 13 16 8 3 5 24 16 17 55
3 Fulham 31 16 7 8 46 32 16 10 2 4 29 18 15 6 5 4 17 14 14 55
4 Nottingham Forest 31 15 9 7 43 30 15 8 3 4 20 15 16 7 6 3 23 15 13 54
5 Brentford 31 16 5 10 52 25 15 9 3 3 28 12 16 7 2 7 24 13 27 53
6 Preston North End 31 14 8 9 45 36 16 10 3 3 32 19 15 4 5 6 13 17 9 50
7 Bristol City 31 14 8 9 45 43 15 6 4 5 21 21 16 8 4 4 24 22 2 50
8 Cardiff City 31 11 13 7 43 43 15 8 6 1 22 12 16 3 7 6 21 31 0 46
9 Swansea City 31 12 10 9 37 37 16 7 3 6 21 19 15 5 7 3 16 18 0 46
10 Millwall 30 11 12 7 38 35 14 8 4 2 23 14 16 3 8 5 15 21 3 45
11 Sheffield Wednesday 31 12 8 11 41 34 15 6 5 4 14 15 16 6 3 7 27 19 7 44
12 Blackburn Rovers 31 12 8 11 43 38 16 7 6 3 19 14 15 5 2 8 24 24 5 44
13 Derby County 31 11 10 10 38 41 16 9 5 2 23 11 15 2 5 8 15 30 -3 43
14 Hull City 31 11 7 13 43 44 16 6 2 8 23 24 15 5 5 5 20 20 -1 40
15 Birmingham City 31 11 7 13 40 48 15 6 3 6 22 22 16 5 4 7 18 26 -8 40
16 Reading 31 10 9 12 37 35 15 6 2 7 20 19 16 4 7 5 17 16 2 39
17 Queens Park Rangers 31 11 5 15 47 56 16 6 4 6 29 28 15 5 1 9 18 28 -9 38
18 Middlesbrough 31 8 12 11 32 40 16 6 7 3 16 15 15 2 5 8 16 25 -8 36
19 Huddersfield Town 31 9 8 14 37 48 16 5 5 6 18 21 15 4 3 8 19 27 -11 35
20 Stoke City 31 10 4 17 39 47 16 6 3 7 22 21 15 4 1 10 17 26 -8 34
21 Charlton Athletic 31 8 9 14 40 45 16 6 5 5 22 19 15 2 4 9 18 26 -5 33
22 Wigan Athletic 31 7 8 16 29 46 15 5 4 6 15 20 16 2 4 10 14 26 -17 29
23 Barnsley 31 5 10 16 37 57 16 4 7 5 25 30 15 1 3 11 12 27 -20 25
24 Luton Town 31 7 3 21 37 66 15 5 3 7 23 25 16 2 0 14 14 41 -29 24

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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.