Cardiff City 3-1 Wolverhampton Wanderers: result and report

Championship · Sunday 2 September 2012

Result

Cardiff City 3-1 Wolverhampton Wanderers

Championship · Sunday 2 September 2012, 13:00 UTC · half-time 2-1

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Cardiff City 3-1 Wolverhampton Wanderers: match report

Cardiff City defeated Wolverhampton Wanderers 3-1 in the Championship on Sunday 2 September 2012. The half-time score was 2-1.

Bakary Sako opened the scoring in the 10th minute. Cardiff City's goals came from Peter Whittingham (11', penalty), Peter Whittingham (14') and Peter Whittingham (65'). Wolverhampton Wanderers scored through Bakary Sako (10').

Discipline: Cardiff City received 1 yellow card; Wolverhampton Wanderers received 1 yellow card.

Going into the game Cardiff City were 19th on 4 points from 3 and Wolverhampton Wanderers 18th on 4 points from 3. Cardiff City went on to finish that season 1st with 87 points, and Wolverhampton Wanderers 23rd with 50.

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

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

Data as of 4 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 10'Goal · Bakary SakoWolverhampton Wanderers · 0-1
  • 11'Penalty goal · Peter WhittinghamCardiff City · 1-1
  • 14'Goal · Peter WhittinghamCardiff City · 2-1
  • 16'Yellow card · Jordon MutchCardiff City
  • 48'Yellow card · Sylvan Ebanks-BlakeWolverhampton Wanderers
  • 65'Goal · Peter WhittinghamCardiff City · 3-1

Head-to-head

8 meetings: Cardiff City 2, draws 2, Wolverhampton Wanderers 4.

Team news

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Cardiff City line-up

Txiki Acaz, Kevin McNaughton, Andrew Taylor, Matthew Connolly, Peter Whittingham, Jordon Mutch, Tommy Smith, Craig Noone, Heidar Helguson, Mark Hudson, Nicky Maynard

Wolverhampton Wanderers expected line-up

Carl Ikeme, Ronald Zubar, Karl Henry, Dave Edwards, Matt Jarvis, Kevin Doyle, Sylvan Ebanks-Blake, Stephen Ward, Christophe Berra