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
All EFL Trophy League One Championship Club Friendlies Carabao Cup FA Cup
All Home Away
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
All Championship Premier League Club Friendlies FA Cup Carabao Cup
All Home Away
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

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