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 · Brentford · Championship predictions

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.

Data as of 4 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 8'Goal · J. RallsCardiff City · 1-0
  • 36'Goal · Danny WardCardiff City · 2-0
  • 59'Yellow card · Liam FeeneyCardiff City
  • 84'Yellow card · Bruno Ecuele MangaCardiff City

Head-to-head

6 meetings: Cardiff City 3, draws 1, Brentford 2.

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