Cardiff City 2-1 Watford: result and report

Championship · Tuesday 23 October 2012

Result

Cardiff City 2-1 Watford

Championship · Tuesday 23 October 2012, 18:45 UTC · half-time 0-1

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Cardiff City 2-1 Watford: match report

Cardiff City beat Watford 2-1 in the Championship on Tuesday 23 October 2012. It was 0-1 at half-time.

Tommie Hoban opened the scoring in the 28th minute. Cardiff City's goals came from Peter Whittingham (71', penalty) and A. Gunnarsson (90+1'). Watford scored through Tommie Hoban (28').

Discipline: Cardiff City received 1 yellow card; Watford received 2 yellow cards and 2 red cards.

Going into the game Cardiff City were 2nd on 22 points from 11 and Watford 13th on 16 points from 11. Cardiff City went on to finish that season 1st with 87 points, and Watford 2nd with 79.

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

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

Data as of 4 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 17'Yellow card · Marco CassettiWatford
  • 28'Goal · Tommie HobanWatford · 0-1
  • 55'Yellow card · M. HudsonCardiff City
  • 63'Red card · Daniel PudilWatford
  • 69'Yellow card · Mark YeatesWatford
  • 71'Penalty goal · Peter WhittinghamCardiff City · 1-1
  • 71'Red card · Nathaniel ChalobahWatford
  • 90+1'Goal · A. GunnarssonCardiff City · 2-1

Head-to-head

10 meetings: Cardiff City 4, draws 4, Watford 2.

Team news

Cardiff City line-up

Txiki Acaz, Andrew Taylor, Ben Turner, Matthew Connolly, Peter Whittingham, D. Cowie, Tommy Smith, Craig Noone, Heidar Helguson, Craig Bellamy, Mark Hudson

Watford line-up

Almunia, Fitz Hall, Lloyd Doyley, Daniel Pudil, Marco Cassetti, Tommie Hoban, Mark Yeates, Jonathan Hogg, Nathaniel Chalobah, Matej Vydra, Alexandre Geijo