Championship: Wigan Athletic - Cardiff City preview and statistics

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Competition: England Championship
Date: Sat 03.August
Match begins: 14:00 (UTC)
Venue: The DW Stadium (25138 seats)

Game week two of the Championship season and the teams have had a few days to digest the first match. Here's the Wigan Athletic - Cardiff City preview:

It's no vacation for neither Wigan Athletic nor Cardiff City as both were in action only a few days ago. Expect some tired legs on the pitch and/or possibly some changes to the lineups.

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Wigan Athletic form and stats

The hosts won their first game here at The DW Stadium, lifting spirits. Home statistics for Wigan Athletic last season were 11 wins, 8 draws and 4 losses from 23 games.

Wigan Athletic's previous game was a Championship match also played at home, ending 3-2 versus Cardiff City. The home side are looking to build on that result. Before that, Wigan Athletic had a home game versus Millwall which ended with a victory 1-0.

Wigan Athletic has scored 3 goals so far and conceded 2 goals from 1 home game.

Last season, Wigan Athletic's league statistics were 13 wins, 13 draws and 20 losses, resulting in a 18th position in the League One. Over these 46 matches they scored 51 goals and conceded 64. Playing at home last season Wigan Athletic managed 11-8-4 (win-draw-lost) with 29 goals and 20 conceded.

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Cardiff City form and stats

Cardiff City have played one away game so far, a loss. Last season their away games stats were 4 victories, 2 draws and 13 defeats from 19 fixtures.

Two away games in a row for Cardiff City, who will hope to get a better result in this one after losing 2-3 versus Wigan Athletic in the Championship. Before that one, a nice away victory 2-0 at Manchester United.

As for goals scored and conceded in away games so far, Cardiff City has managed 2 goals and let in 3 from 1 match.

Let's have a look at how Cardiff City performed last season in the Premier League: They landed a 18th position in the league table after playing out 10 victories, 4 draws and 24 defeats. In total they scored 34 and conceded 69 goals in these matches. The numbers for away games only are: Won 4 - drew 2 and lost 13 with 13/31 goals scored/conceded.

Head 2 Head

The most recent history between these sides is the Wigan Athletic - Cardiff City 3-2 played earlier this season. As for the last six games between these two teams, there's 3 Wigan Athletic victories, 1 draw and 2 Cardiff City wins. 2 of these games ended with three goals or more, 4 matches with two goals or less.

Top Goalscorers

L. Evans
1 goals
M. Jacobs
1 goals / 1 assists
J. Windass
1 goals

Wigan Athletic missing players

Cardiff City missing players

Wigan Athletic Cardiff City
Total Home Home vs low Statistic Away vs mid Away Total
1 1 0 Played 0 1 1
1 1 0 Won 0 0 0
0 0 0 Drew 0 0 0
0 0 0 Lost 0 1 1
3 3 0 Scored 0 2 2
2 2 0 Conceded 0 3 3
100% 100% 0% Over 0.5 0% 100% 100%
100% 100% 0% Over 1.5 0% 100% 100%
100% 100% 0% Over 2.5 0% 100% 100%
100% 100% 0% Over 3.5 0% 100% 100%
100% 100% 0% Over 4.5 0% 100% 100%
100% 100% 0% BTTS 0% 100% 100%
0% 0% 0% Clean Sheets 0% 0% 0%
0% 0% 0% Failed To Score 0% 0% 0%
 
6 6 0 Corners For (avg) 0 6 6
6 6 0 Corners Against (avg) 0 6 6
2 2 0 Yellow Cards (avg) 0 4 4
0 0 0 Red Cards 0 0 0
Wigan Athletic Last season Cardiff City
Total Home   Statistic   Away Total
46 23   Played   19 38
13 11   Won   4 10
13 8   Drew   2 4
20 4   Lost   13 24
51 29   Scored   13 34
64 20   Conceded   31 69
89% 78%   Over 0.5   89% 89%
70% 57%   Over 1.5   68% 74%
50% 43%   Over 2.5   37% 50%
24% 17%   Over 3.5   21% 26%
11% 9%   Over 4.5   16% 24%
48% 39%   BTTS   32% 39%
26% 48%   Clean Sheets   26% 26%
37% 35%   Failed To Score   53% 45%
 
4.5 4.8   Corners For (avg)   3.8 4.4
6.6 6.3   Corners Against (avg)   8.1 7.1
2 1.7   Yellow Cards (avg)   1.7 1.7
4 1   Red Cards   1 1
Key stats last season:
  • Cardiff City have conceded at least twice as many corners as they have won away.
  • Cardiff City have conceded at least twice as many goals as they have scored.
  • Wigan Athletic have scored at least twice as many goals at home as Cardiff City have scored away.

Wigan Athletic
09-07-19 CF Fylde 1 - 0 Wigan Athletic
20-07-19 CF Bradford City 1 - 1 Wigan Athletic
24-07-19 CF Wigan Athletic 0 - 0 Everton
27-07-19 CF Wigan Athletic 2 - 2 Burnley
03-08-19 CH Wigan Athletic 3 - 2 Cardiff City
10-08-19 CH Preston North End 14:00 Wigan Athletic
13-08-19 CC Wigan Athletic 18:45 Stoke City
17-08-19 CH Wigan Athletic 14:00 Leeds United
20-08-19 CH Middlesbrough 18:45 Wigan Athletic
24-08-19 CH Queens Park Rangers 14:00 Wigan Athletic
Cardiff City
12-05-19 PL Manchester United 0 - 2 Cardiff City
14-07-19 CF San Antonio 0 - 1 Cardiff City
21-07-19 CF Cardiff City 1 - 1 Real Valladolid
27-07-19 CF Cardiff City 1 - 0 Nice
03-08-19 CH Wigan Athletic 3 - 2 Cardiff City
10-08-19 CH Cardiff City 14:00 Luton Town
18-08-19 CH Reading 11:00 Cardiff City
21-08-19 CH Cardiff City 18:45 Huddersfield Town
24-08-19 CH Blackburn Rovers 14:00 Cardiff City
30-08-19 CH Cardiff City 18:45 Fulham

  Total Home Away  
# Team MP W D L F A MP W D L F A MP W D L F A D P
1 Sheffield Wednesday 1 1 0 0 3 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 3 1 2 3
2 Barnsley 1 1 0 0 1 0 1 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 3
3 Birmingham City 1 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 1 0 1 3
4 Charlton Athletic 1 1 0 0 2 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 2 1 1 3
5 Millwall 1 1 0 0 1 0 1 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 3
6 Queens Park Rangers 1 1 0 0 2 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 2 1 1 3
7 Swansea City 1 1 0 0 2 1 1 1 0 0 2 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 3
8 West Bromwich Albion 1 1 0 0 2 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 2 1 1 3
9 Wigan Athletic 1 1 0 0 3 2 1 1 0 0 3 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 3
10 Luton Town 1 0 1 0 3 3 1 0 1 0 3 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1
11 Middlesbrough 1 0 1 0 3 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 3 3 0 1
16 Blackburn Rovers 1 0 0 1 1 2 1 0 0 1 1 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 -1 0
17 Brentford 1 0 0 1 0 1 1 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 -1 0
18 Cardiff City 1 0 0 1 2 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 2 3 -1 0
19 Fulham 1 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 1 -1 0
20 Hull City 1 0 0 1 1 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 1 2 -1 0
21 Nottingham Forest 1 0 0 1 1 2 1 0 0 1 1 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 -1 0
22 Preston North End 1 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 1 -1 0
23 Stoke City 1 0 0 1 1 2 1 0 0 1 1 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 -1 0
24 Reading 1 0 0 1 1 3 1 0 0 1 1 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 -2 0