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- Cardiff MU is in the best form (5-1-0) in Premier League
- Penybont have won significantly less corners away then at home.
Cardiff's stadium, Cardiff International Sports Stadium, has a artifical turf surface. Penybont have grass on their own stadium. This might or might not make a difference, and to help evaluate that we give you the recent performance numbers for Penybont when playing on artifical turf; 2 wins, 2 draws and 3 losses from seven matches. They have scored {12 goals} in these games and conceded 9.
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 MU form and stats
Cardiff MU are steadily winning Premier League games and points here at Cardiff International Sports Stadium. 7 wins, 0 draws and 2 defeats is the summary from 9 games. It’s been three wins in a row for Cardiff MU here at Cardiff International Sports Stadium, hoping to make this one the fourth consecutive victory.
A strong away win for Cardiff MU against Penybont the last match, as Baker, Jones and Chubb were on target.
Before that, Cardiff MU had a home game versus Newtown which ended with a victory 2-1.The hosts are favourites to win this game, with an estimated chance of about 55-60% of that outcome. Earlier Cardiff matches with similar probabilities have ended with 6 wins, 1 draw and 2 defeats (from 9 games).
It should be considered that a peek at the 16 most recent league games shows that 12 of them qualified as a both teams not to score result (only one or none of the teams scored).
The Cardiff MU fans would probably like to see some more goals scored at their own stadium in the league, the tally being 13 in 9 matches. On the other hand, Cardiff have conceded 12 goals. There's been improvement defensively lately, as only 1 of these goals has been conceded in their last three home matches.
Penybont form and stats
4 wins, 2 draws and 3 losses. That’s the product of Penybont playing as the away team in the Premier League this season.
Penybont failed to get anything from their last game, a home match vs Cardiff MU (placed 3rd) that ended with defeat 1-3.
Before that one, a nice away victory 1-0 at Pontypridd Town AFC.As mentioned above, the odds for this match puts the home team as favourites. Perhaps this eases the pressure on the away team, who are capable of producing an upset here on a good day. Looking at earlier matches with similar odds and Penybont playing away, we found 4 games. Results were 1 away win, 2 draws and 1 home win.
The visitors are returning home after this fixture, hosting Airbus UK in just four days.
The visiting Penybont have scored more than one goal per away game in the league so far. The grand total is 12 goals from 9 games.
Head 2 Head
Cardiff MU and Penybont have faced each other already this season: Penybont - Cardiff MU 1-3. Head-2-head stats last ten meetings: five - one - four (Cardiff wins - draws - Penybont wins). As for goals, six matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), four had two or less.
Top Goalscorers
  S. Jones 8 goals | L. Rees 7 goals | E. Evans 5 goals |
Cardiff MU missing players
Penybont missing players
| Cardiff MU | Penybont | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 19 | 9 | 3 | Played | P | 3 | 9 | 17 |
| 11 | 7 | 2 | Won | W | 0 | 4 | 8 |
| 1 | 0 | 0 | Drew | D | 1 | 2 | 4 |
| 7 | 2 | 1 | Lost | L | 2 | 3 | 5 |
| 24 | 13 | 4 | Scored | S | 1 | 12 | 24 |
| 28 | 12 | 4 | Conceded | C | 4 | 9 | 18 |
| 100% | 100% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 100% | 94% |
| 74% | 78% | 100% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 67% | 78% | 76% |
| 47% | 56% | 67% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 0% | 33% | 41% |
| 26% | 11% | 0% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 0% | 11% | 24% |
| 11% | 11% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 11% | 12% |
| 26% | 22% | 33% | BTTS | BTTS | 33% | 44% | 53% |
| 42% | 56% | 33% | Clean Sheets | C S | 0% | 33% | 29% |
| 32% | 22% | 33% | Failed to Score | F T | 67% | 22% | 24% |
| 3.1 | 3.6 | 3.7 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 4 | 3.6 | 4.7 |
| 3.8 | 3.9 | 3 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 4.7 | 4.6 | 4.1 |
| 1.2 | 1.4 | 2 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 1 | 1.4 | 1.3 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| 7.8 | 9.1 | 8 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 4.3 | 9.3 | 9.9 |
| 3.2 | 4.1 | 3 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 0.7 | 3.9 | 4.1 |
| 40% | 35% | 44% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 50% | 34% | 34% |
| 6.8 | 7.2 | 7 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 11 | 8.4 | 8.2 |
| 2.8 | 2.9 | 2 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 6.3 | 4.4 | 3.8 |
- Cardiff MU have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
- Cardiff MU haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
- Cardiff MU is in the best form (5-1-0) in Premier League
- Penybont have won significantly less corners away then at home.
- Penybont haven’t played a single 0-0 game away.
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | The New Saints | 17 | 14 | 3 | 0 | 60 | 6 | 9 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 40 | 4 | 8 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 20 | 2 | 54 | 45 |
| 2 | Connah's Quay | 18 | 13 | 2 | 3 | 32 | 12 | 11 | 9 | 2 | 0 | 20 | 5 | 7 | 4 | 0 | 3 | 12 | 7 | 20 | 41 |
| 3 | Cardiff MU | 19 | 11 | 1 | 7 | 24 | 28 | 9 | 7 | 0 | 2 | 13 | 12 | 10 | 4 | 1 | 5 | 11 | 16 | -4 | 34 |
| 4 | Bala Town | 17 | 10 | 3 | 4 | 35 | 16 | 8 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 13 | 8 | 9 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 22 | 8 | 19 | 33 |
| 5 | Newtown | 19 | 9 | 2 | 8 | 35 | 35 | 9 | 4 | 1 | 4 | 12 | 12 | 10 | 5 | 1 | 4 | 23 | 23 | 0 | 29 |
| 6 | Penybont | 17 | 8 | 4 | 5 | 24 | 18 | 8 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 12 | 9 | 9 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 12 | 9 | 6 | 28 |
| 7 | Haverfordwest County | 19 | 7 | 2 | 10 | 25 | 30 | 9 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 15 | 13 | 10 | 2 | 1 | 7 | 10 | 17 | -5 | 23 |
| 8 | Caernarfon Town | 17 | 7 | 1 | 9 | 28 | 30 | 10 | 6 | 0 | 4 | 19 | 16 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 9 | 14 | -2 | 22 |
| 9 | Flint Town United | 18 | 5 | 4 | 9 | 18 | 27 | 7 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 7 | 9 | 11 | 3 | 1 | 7 | 11 | 18 | -9 | 19 |
| 10 | Aberystwyth Town | 18 | 6 | 0 | 12 | 19 | 47 | 9 | 5 | 0 | 4 | 12 | 17 | 9 | 1 | 0 | 8 | 7 | 30 | -28 | 18 |
| 11 | Pontypridd Town AFC | 18 | 5 | 1 | 12 | 18 | 33 | 10 | 4 | 0 | 6 | 10 | 18 | 8 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 8 | 15 | -15 | 16 |
| 12 | Airbus UK | 17 | 0 | 1 | 16 | 12 | 48 | 8 | 0 | 1 | 7 | 8 | 26 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 9 | 4 | 22 | -36 | -2 |
