Cardiff City 2-2 Rotherham United: result and report
Championship · Saturday 23 January 2016
Result
Cardiff City 2-2 Rotherham United
Championship · Saturday 23 January 2016, 15:00 UTC · half-time 1-1
Cardiff City 2-2 Rotherham United: match report
Cardiff City drew with Rotherham United 2-2 in the Championship on Saturday 23 January 2016. It was 1-1 at half-time.
Alberto Suárez opened the scoring in the 25th minute. Cardiff City's goals came from Alberto Suárez (25') and Alberto Suárez (60'). Rotherham United scored through Joe Newell (44') and an own goal by Alberto Suárez (49').
Discipline: Cardiff City received 2 yellow cards and 1 red card; Rotherham United received no yellow cards.
Going into the game Cardiff City were 9th on 40 points from 27 and Rotherham United 21st on 24 points from 27. Cardiff City went on to finish that season 8th with 68 points, and Rotherham United 21st with 49.
Cardiff City lined up in a 4-4-2 and Rotherham United in a 4-4-2.
Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 1 Cardiff City win, 1 draw and 1 for Rotherham United.
Going into the match Cardiff City's last five read W-L-W-D-L and Rotherham United's L-W-L-L-W.
Key events
- 25'Goal · Alberto Suárez
- 44'Goal · Joe Newell
- 49'Own goal · Alberto Suárez
- 60'Goal · Alberto Suárez
- 74'Yellow card · Lee Peltier
- 79'Yellow card · Alberto Suárez
- 84'Second yellow · Lee Peltier
Head-to-head
Team news
Cardiff City expected line-up (4-4-2)
Txiki Acaz, Sean Morrison, Fábio, John Brayford, Peter Whittingham, Joe Ralls, Anthony Pilkington, Kenwyne Jones
Rotherham United expected line-up (4-4-2)
Kirk Broadfoot, Joe Skarz, Craig Morgan, Danny Collins, Lee Frecklington, Ben Pringle, Richard Smallwood, Paul Taylor, A. Revell