Cardiff City 2-1 Southampton: result and report

Championship · Saturday 20 April 2024

Result

Cardiff City 2-1 Southampton

Championship · Saturday 20 April 2024, 14:00 UTC · half-time 0-1

Cardiff City · Southampton · Championship predictions

Cardiff City 2-1 Southampton: match report

Cardiff City defeated Southampton 2-1 in the Championship on Saturday 20 April 2024. It was 0-1 at half-time.

Joe Aribo opened the scoring in the 12th minute. Cardiff City's goals came from F. Diédhiou (68') and C. Ashford (90+6'). Southampton scored through Joe Aribo (12').

Discipline: Cardiff City received 1 yellow card; Southampton received 3 yellow cards.

Going into the game Cardiff City were 11th on 59 points from 43 and Southampton 4th on 84 points from 42. Cardiff City went on to finish that season 12th with 62 points, and Southampton 4th with 94.

Cardiff City lined up in a 4-2-3-1 and Southampton in a 4-3-3. The highest match rating in our data went to Ethan Horvath of Cardiff City (8.4), ahead of Ché Adams (7.8).

Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 6 Cardiff City wins, 1 draw and 3 for Southampton.

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

Data as of 4 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 12'Goal · Joe AriboSouthampton · 0-1
  • 43'Yellow card · S. ArmstrongSouthampton
  • 68'Goal · F. DiédhiouCardiff City · 1-1
  • 81'Yellow card · Kamaldeen SulemanaSouthampton
  • 82'Yellow card · N. PhillipsCardiff City
  • 90+1'Yellow card · Jan BednarekSouthampton
  • 90+6'Goal · C. AshfordCardiff City · 2-1

Head-to-head

10 meetings: Cardiff City 6, draws 1, Southampton 3.

Team news

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

Ethan Horvath, Mahlon Romeo, Nat Phillips, Dimitrios Goutas, Ollie Tanner, Manolis Siopis, Joe Ralls, Cian Ashford, David Turnbull, Rubin Colwill, Yakou Méïté

Southampton line-up (4-3-3)

Alex Simon McCarthy, Kyle Walker-Peters, Taylor Harwood-Bellis, Jan Bednarek, Ryan Manning, Joe Aribo, Will Smallbone, Stuart Armstrong, David Brooks, Ché Adams, Adam Armstrong