Home advantage could prove decisive in Millwall - Cardiff City battle

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Competition: England Championship
Competition: Sat 03.September
Match begins: 14:00 (UTC)
Venue: The Den (20146 seats)

Championship: Millwall are 1 points behind Cardiff City, but are motivated to go all in. Bring it on!

Insights:
  • Millwall haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
  • Cardiff City have yet to win a game 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.

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Millwall form and stats

Millwall have secured 6 points from their first three home games in the Championship. A decent catch, still with room for improvement. With three straight defeats the pressure is piling up on Millwall to get some points in this home game.

Millwall are anxiously hoping for a goal as it's been 270 minutes since the last one in league fixtures. (Scored by Wood (own goal)).

Millwall faced defeat in their previous match, away at Burnley (0-2). Białkowski had a busy but productive day in the Burnley match. Despite making eight saves the loss could not be prevented.

Ahead of that match, Millwall lost 0-1 at home to Reading.

The home team are moderate favourites in this game. How does Millwall 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 7 wins, 2 draws and 4 defeats.

Millwall have proved capable of finding the net in their games here at The Den with 5 goals in 3 league matches.

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Cardiff City form and stats

The Championship season is young and Cardiff City have only just started going through their travel schedule, with 3 away games done and still no victory. 1 draw and 2 defeats so far.

Cardiff City might have something to prove in this game as they lost at home in their previous match. Luton Town proved too strong as Cardiff City slumped to a 1-2 defeat in front of their own fans at Cardiff City Stadium (Cardiff (Caerdydd)). Rinomhota got a match rating of 7.61 in that game, top player of the team. Rinomhota hit one key pass and dribled past the opponent 2 of 4 times.

Ahead of that game was the 0-0 draw at home against Preston North End.

Cardiff City are the outsiders in this one, but not by much. Their performance in similar games (being the away team and moderate outsiders) is 3 wins, 1 draw and 2 defeats. From a total of 6 matches.

Goals are few and far between in Cardiff City's away league games. Only 1 goal from 3 travels. 4 goals have been conceded by Cardiff in these games.

Head 2 Head

Head-2-head stats last ten meetings: two - seven - one (Millwall wins - draws - Cardiff City wins). As for goals, three matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), seven had two or less.

Top Goalscorers

MillwallC. Cresswell
C. Cresswell
2 goals
MillwallJ. Cooper
J. Cooper
1 goals

Millwall missing players

Cardiff City missing players

Millwall Cardiff City
Total Home vs mid Statistics Stat vs low Away Total
7 3 0 Played P 0 3 7
2 2 0 Won W 0 0 2
1 0 0 Drew D 0 1 2
4 1 0 Lost L 0 2 3
7 5 0 Scored S 0 1 4
11 3 0 Conceded C 0 4 6
100% 100% 0% Over 0.5 O 0.5 0% 67% 71%
86% 67% 0% Over 1.5 O 1.5 0% 67% 43%
29% 33% 0% Over 2.5 O 2.5 0% 33% 29%
29% 33% 0% Over 3.5 O 3.5 0% 0% 0%
14% 33% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 0% 0%
29% 33% 0% BTTS BTTS 0% 33% 29%
14% 33% 0% Clean Sheets C S 0% 33% 57%
57% 33% 0% Failed to Score F T 0% 67% 43%
 
4.7 4.7 0 Corners for (avg) C F 0 4 4
4 3 0 Corners against (avg) C A 0 5.7 4.3
2.1 1.7 0 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 0 3 2.3
0 0 0 Red cards R C 0 0 1
 
12.1 12.3 0 Shots (avg) S ( 0 7.3 11.1
3.3 4 0 Shots on Target (avg) S O 0 1 1.4
30% 42% 0% Goal Efficiency G E 0% 33% 40%
 
12.9 8.7 0 Shots against (avg) S A 0 13 10
5 4 0 Shots on Target against (avg) S O 0 4 2.4
Key stats in Championship this season:
  • Cardiff City have yet to win a game away.
  • Millwall 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 Sheffield United 7 4 2 1 14 5 4 4 0 0 11 1 3 0 2 1 3 4 9 14
2 Norwich City 7 4 1 2 9 6 3 2 1 0 5 2 4 2 0 2 4 4 3 13
3 Burnley 7 3 3 1 13 7 4 1 3 0 7 5 3 2 0 1 6 2 6 12
4 Watford 7 3 3 1 8 6 4 3 0 1 6 4 3 0 3 0 2 2 2 12
5 Reading 7 4 0 3 7 10 3 3 0 0 6 1 4 1 0 3 1 9 -3 12
6 Queens Park Rangers 7 3 2 2 12 10 4 2 1 1 7 5 3 1 1 1 5 5 2 11
7 Hull City 7 3 2 2 11 13 3 3 0 0 7 4 4 0 2 2 4 9 -2 11
8 Rotherham United 5 2 3 0 8 2 3 2 1 0 7 1 2 0 2 0 1 1 6 9
9 Luton Town 7 2 3 2 6 6 3 0 2 1 1 2 4 2 1 1 5 4 0 9
10 Blackburn Rovers 6 3 0 3 6 8 3 2 0 1 3 2 3 1 0 2 3 6 -2 9
11 Bristol City 6 2 2 2 11 9 3 2 0 1 6 3 3 0 2 1 5 6 2 8
12 West Bromwich Albion 7 1 5 1 11 9 3 1 2 0 6 3 4 0 3 1 5 6 2 8
13 Preston North End 6 1 5 0 1 0 3 0 3 0 0 0 3 1 2 0 1 0 1 8
14 Sunderland 6 2 2 2 8 8 3 0 2 1 3 4 3 2 0 1 5 4 0 8
15 Blackpool 6 2 2 2 8 9 3 1 1 1 4 4 3 1 1 1 4 5 -1 8
16 Cardiff City 7 2 2 3 4 6 4 2 1 1 3 2 3 0 1 2 1 4 -2 8
17 Stoke City 6 2 1 3 6 8 3 1 1 1 4 3 3 1 0 2 2 5 -2 7
18 Wigan Athletic 6 1 4 1 5 8 4 0 3 1 3 7 2 1 1 0 2 1 -3 7
19 Millwall 7 2 1 4 7 11 3 2 0 1 5 3 4 0 1 3 2 8 -4 7
20 Middlesbrough 7 1 3 3 10 12 3 1 2 0 5 4 4 0 1 3 5 8 -2 6
21 Birmingham City 7 1 2 4 4 8 4 1 1 2 4 5 3 0 1 2 0 3 -4 5
22 Swansea City 6 1 2 3 5 10 3 0 1 2 2 7 3 1 1 1 3 3 -5 5
23 Huddersfield Town 5 1 1 3 7 8 3 1 1 1 5 4 2 0 0 2 2 4 -1 4
24 Coventry City 3 0 1 2 5 7 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 0 1 2 5 7 -2 1

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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.