Cardiff City 0-0 Preston North End: result and report

Championship · Saturday 21 December 2019

Result

Cardiff City 0-0 Preston North End

Championship · Saturday 21 December 2019, 12:30 UTC · half-time 0-0

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Cardiff City 0-0 Preston North End: match report

Cardiff City drew with Preston North End 0-0 in the Championship on Saturday 21 December 2019. The half-time score was 0-0.

Neither side found the net.

Discipline: Cardiff City received 1 yellow card; Preston North End received 2 yellow cards.

Going into the game Cardiff City were 12th on 32 points from 22 and Preston North End 3rd on 37 points from 22. Cardiff City went on to finish that season 5th with 76 points, and Preston North End 9th with 66.

Cardiff City lined up in a 4-2-3-1 and Preston North End in a 4-2-3-1. The highest match rating in our data went to Ben Pearson of Preston North End (8.0), ahead of Neil Etheridge (7.8).

Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 4 Cardiff City wins, 2 draws and 4 for Preston North End.

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

Data as of 4 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 21'Yellow card · Paul GallagherPreston North End
  • 35'Yellow card · Tom ClarkePreston North End
  • 45+1'Yellow card · Lee TomlinCardiff City

Head-to-head

10 meetings: Cardiff City 4, draws 2, Preston North End 4.

Team news

Cardiff City line-up (4-2-3-1)

Neil Etheridge, Lee Peltier, Aden Flint, Curtis Nelson, Jazz Richards, Leandro Bacuna, Marlon Pack, Nathaniel Méndez-Laing, Lee Tomlin, Josh Murphy, Robert Glatzel

Preston North End line-up (4-2-3-1)

Declan Rudd, Tom Clarke, Patrick Bauer, Paul Huntington, Andrew Hughes, Ben Pearson, Paul Gallagher, Billy Bodin, Alan Browne, Sean Maguire, Tom Barkhuizen