Charlton Athletic 2-2 Cardiff City: result and report
Championship · Tuesday 21 April 2009
Result
Charlton Athletic 2-2 Cardiff City
Championship · Tuesday 21 April 2009, 18:45 UTC · half-time 1-0
Charlton Athletic 2-2 Cardiff City: match report
Charlton Athletic drew with Cardiff City 2-2 in the Championship on Tuesday 21 April 2009. It was 1-0 at half-time.
J. Shelvey opened the scoring in the 35th minute. Charlton Athletic's goals came from J. Shelvey (35') and Nicky Bailey (80'). Cardiff City scored through C. Burke (82') and Gábor Gyepes (89').
Discipline: Charlton Athletic received 3 yellow cards; Cardiff City received 2 yellow cards.
Going into the game Charlton Athletic were 24th on 35 points from 43 and Cardiff City 4th on 73 points from 43. Charlton Athletic went on to finish that season 24th with 39 points, and Cardiff City 7th with 74.
Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 2 Charlton Athletic wins, 0 draws and 1 for Cardiff City.
Going into the match Charlton Athletic's last five read D-D-D-W-D and Cardiff City's L-W-W-W-D.
Key events
- 32'Yellow card · Jay Bothroyd
- 35'Goal · J. Shelvey
- 46'Yellow card · Joe Ledley
- 51'Yellow card · Danny Butterfield
- 60'Yellow card · Zhi Zheng
- 74'Yellow card · Nicky Bailey
- 80'Goal · Nicky Bailey
- 82'Goal · C. Burke
- 89'Goal · Gábor Gyepes
Head-to-head
Team news
Charlton Athletic expected line-up
Scott Carson, Luke Young, Souleymane Diawara, Alex Song, Zhi Zheng, Darren Ambrose, Matt Holland, Darren Bent, Hermann Hreidarsson, Talal El Karkouri