Cardiff City 4-3 Leyton Orient: result and report
League One · Saturday 4 October 2025
Result
Cardiff City 4-3 Leyton Orient
League One · Saturday 4 October 2025, 14:00 UTC · half-time 1-1
Cardiff City 4-3 Leyton Orient: match report
Cardiff City won against Leyton Orient 4-3 in the League One on Saturday 4 October 2025. The half-time score was 1-1.
Callum Robinson opened the scoring in the 20th minute. Cardiff City's goals came from Callum Robinson (20'), Dylan Lawlor (52'), Yousef Salech (69') and Callum Robinson (71'). Leyton Orient scored through Aaron Connolly (29'), Idris El Mizouni (54') and Dominic Ballard (62').
Discipline: Cardiff City received 2 yellow cards; Leyton Orient received 2 yellow cards.
Going into the game Cardiff City were 4th on 20 points from 10 and Leyton Orient 17th on 11 points from 10. Cardiff City went on to finish that season 2nd with 91 points, and Leyton Orient 20th with 52.
Cardiff City lined up in a 4-2-3-1 and Leyton Orient in a 3-5-2. The highest match rating in our data went to Aaron Connolly of Leyton Orient (8.3), ahead of Dylan Lawlor (8.1).
Going into the match Cardiff City's last five read L-W-L-D-W and Leyton Orient's L-L-D-W-L.
Key events
- 20'Goal · Callum Robinson
- 29'Goal · Aaron Connolly
- 30'Yellow card · Ronan Kpakio
- 52'Goal · Dylan Lawlor
- 54'Goal · Idris El Mizouni
- 57'Yellow card · Sean Clare
- 57'Yellow card · Chris Willock
- 62'Goal · Dominic Ballard
- 69'Goal · Yousef Salech
- 71'Goal · Callum Robinson
- 78'Yellow card · Aaron Connolly
Team news
Cardiff City line-up (4-2-3-1)
Nathan Trott, Ronan Kpakio, Gabriel Osho, Dylan Lawlor, Joel Bagan, Joel Colwill, Ryan Wintle, Isaak Davies, Rubin Colwill, Chris Willock, Callum Robinson
Leyton Orient line-up (3-5-2)
Tommy James Simkin, Omar Beckles, Daniel Happe, Rarmani Edmonds-Green, Sean Clare, Charlie Wellens, Tyreeq Bakinson, Idris El Mizouni, Tayo Adaramola, Dom Ballard, Aaron Connolly