Cardiff City 5-3 Barnsley: result and report

Championship · Saturday 22 October 2011

Result

Cardiff City 5-3 Barnsley

Championship · Saturday 22 October 2011, 14:00 UTC · half-time 3-1

Cardiff City · Barnsley · Championship predictions

Cardiff City 5-3 Barnsley: match report

Cardiff City beat Barnsley 5-3 in the Championship on Saturday 22 October 2011. The half-time score was 3-1.

Kenny Miller opened the scoring in the 10th minute. Cardiff City's goals came from Kenny Miller (10'), Joe Mason (33'), A. Gunnarsson (38'), Don Cowie (59') and A. Gunnarsson (71'). Barnsley scored through Danny Drinkwater (36'), Jim McNulty (82') and Ricardo Vaz Té (85').

Discipline: Cardiff City received 1 yellow card; Barnsley received 2 yellow cards.

Going into the game Cardiff City were 13th on 17 points from 12 and Barnsley 15th on 15 points from 12. Cardiff City went on to finish that season 6th with 75 points, and Barnsley 22nd with 48.

Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 6 Cardiff City wins, 2 draws and 2 for Barnsley.

Going into the match Cardiff City's last five read L-D-L-W-D and Barnsley's W-L-W-D-D.

Data as of 4 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 10'Goal · Kenny MillerCardiff City · 1-0
  • 33'Goal · Joe MasonCardiff City · 2-0
  • 34'Yellow card · R. EdwardsBarnsley
  • 36'Goal · Danny DrinkwaterBarnsley · 2-1
  • 38'Goal · A. GunnarssonCardiff City · 3-1
  • 52'Yellow card · Andy GrayBarnsley
  • 52'Yellow card · David MarshallCardiff City
  • 59'Goal · Don CowieCardiff City · 4-1
  • 71'Goal · A. GunnarssonCardiff City · 5-1
  • 82'Goal · Jim McNultyBarnsley · 5-2
  • 85'Goal · Ricardo Vaz TéBarnsley · 5-3

Head-to-head

10 meetings: Cardiff City 6, draws 2, Barnsley 2.

Team news

Cardiff City line-up

Txiki Acaz, Kevin McNaughton, Andrew Taylor, Ben Turner, Peter Whittingham, D. Cowie, Craig Conway, Aron Gunnarsson, Stephen McPhail, Mark Hudson, Kenny Miller