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

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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.

Data as of 5 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 20'Goal · Callum RobinsonCardiff City · 1-0
  • 29'Goal · Aaron ConnollyLeyton Orient · 1-1
  • 30'Yellow card · Ronan KpakioCardiff City
  • 52'Goal · Dylan LawlorCardiff City · 2-1
  • 54'Goal · Idris El MizouniLeyton Orient · 2-2
  • 57'Yellow card · Sean ClareLeyton Orient
  • 57'Yellow card · Chris WillockCardiff City
  • 62'Goal · Dominic BallardLeyton Orient · 2-3
  • 69'Goal · Yousef SalechCardiff City · 3-3
  • 71'Goal · Callum RobinsonCardiff City · 4-3
  • 78'Yellow card · Aaron ConnollyLeyton Orient

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