Cardiff City 2-0 Brentford: result and report
Championship · Saturday 18 November 2017
Result
Cardiff City 2-0 Brentford
Championship · Saturday 18 November 2017, 15:00 UTC · half-time 2-0
Cardiff City 2-0 Brentford: match report
Cardiff City won against Brentford 2-0 in the Championship on Saturday 18 November 2017. The half-time score was 2-0.
J. Ralls opened the scoring in the 8th minute. Cardiff City's goals came from J. Ralls (8') and Danny Ward (36'). Brentford did not score.
Discipline: Cardiff City received 2 yellow cards; Brentford received no yellow cards.
Going into the game Cardiff City were 3rd on 31 points from 16 and Brentford 12th on 22 points from 16. Cardiff City went on to finish that season 4th with 90 points, and Brentford 9th with 69.
Cardiff City lined up in a 4-3-3 and Brentford in a 4-2-3-1. The highest match rating in our data went to Joe Ralls of Cardiff City (8.4), ahead of Neil Etheridge (7.8).
Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 3 Cardiff City wins, 1 draw and 2 for Brentford.
Going into the match Cardiff City's last five read L-W-D-W-L and Brentford's W-W-W-D-W.
Key events
- 8'Goal · J. Ralls
- 36'Goal · Danny Ward
- 59'Yellow card · Liam Feeney
- 84'Yellow card · Bruno Ecuele Manga
Head-to-head
Team news
Cardiff City line-up (4-3-3)
Neil Etheridge, Joe Bennett, Sean Morrison, Bruno Ecuele Manga, Sol Bamba, Joe Ralls, Loïc Damour, Craig Bryson, Daniel Ward, Liam Feeney, Junior Hoilett
Brentford line-up (4-2-3-1)
Daniel Bentley, Andreas Bjelland, John Egan, Josh Clarke, Yoann Barbet, Florian Jozefzoon, Nico Yennaris, Ollie Watkins, Ryan Woods, R. Sawyers, Neal Maupay