Cardiff City 2-1 Queens Park Rangers: result and report

Championship · Saturday 26 August 2017

Result

Cardiff City 2-1 Queens Park Rangers

Championship · Saturday 26 August 2017, 14:00 UTC · half-time 2-1

Cardiff City · Queens Park Rangers · Championship predictions

Cardiff City 2-1 Queens Park Rangers: match report

Cardiff City beat Queens Park Rangers 2-1 in the Championship on Saturday 26 August 2017. The half-time score was 2-1.

Matt Smith opened the scoring in the 15th minute. Cardiff City's goals came from Junior Hoilett (22') and Sol Bamba (45+1'). Queens Park Rangers scored through Matt Smith (15').

Discipline: Cardiff City received no yellow cards; Queens Park Rangers received 1 yellow card.

Going into the game Cardiff City were 1st on 12 points from 4 and Queens Park Rangers 7th on 7 points from 4. Cardiff City went on to finish that season 4th with 90 points, and Queens Park Rangers 16th with 56.

Cardiff City lined up in a 4-2-3-1 and Queens Park Rangers in a 4-3-3. The highest match rating in our data went to Junior Hoilett of Cardiff City (8.6), ahead of Joe Ralls (7.8).

Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 1 Cardiff City win, 4 draws and 5 for Queens Park Rangers.

Data as of 4 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 15'Goal · Matt SmithQueens Park Rangers · 0-1
  • 22'Goal · Junior HoilettCardiff City · 1-1
  • 38'Yellow card · Darnell FurlongQueens Park Rangers
  • 45+1'Goal · Sol BambaCardiff City · 2-1

Head-to-head

10 meetings: Cardiff City 1, draws 4, Queens Park Rangers 5.

Team news

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

Neil Etheridge, Lee Peltier, Joe Bennett, Sean Morrison, Sol Bamba, Joe Ralls, Aron Gunnarsson, Nathaniel Méndez-Laing, Loïc Damour, Junior Hoilett, Kenneth Zohore

Queens Park Rangers line-up (4-3-3)

Alex Smithies, Darnell Furlong, Jake Bidwell, Nedum Onuoha, Steven Caulker, Luke Freeman, Josh Scowen, Massimo Luongo, Conor Washington, Jamie Mackie, Matt Smith