Newcastle United 2-1 Cardiff City: result and report
Championship · Saturday 5 November 2016
Result
Newcastle United 2-1 Cardiff City
Championship · Saturday 5 November 2016, 15:00 UTC · half-time 2-0
Newcastle United 2-1 Cardiff City: match report
Newcastle United beat Cardiff City 2-1 in the Championship on Saturday 5 November 2016. The half-time score was 2-0.
Christian Atsu opened the scoring in the 3rd minute. Newcastle United's goals came from Christian Atsu (3') and Yoan Gouffran (45'). Cardiff City scored through Peter Whittingham (77').
Discipline: Newcastle United received no yellow cards; Cardiff City received 1 yellow card.
Going into the game Newcastle United were 1st on 35 points from 15 and Cardiff City 20th on 17 points from 15. Newcastle United went on to finish that season 1st with 95 points, and Cardiff City 11th with 64.
Newcastle United lined up in a 4-4-1-1 and Cardiff City in a 4-5-1. The highest match rating in our data went to Jonjo Shelvey of Newcastle United (8.0), ahead of Aleksandar Mitrović (7.8).
Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 4 Newcastle United wins, 0 draws and 0 for Cardiff City.
Key events
- 3'Goal · Christian Atsu
- 45'Goal · Yoan Gouffran
- 77'Goal · Peter Whittingham
- 85'Yellow card · A. Gunnarsson
Head-to-head
Team news
Newcastle United line-up (4-4-1-1)
Karl Darlow, DeAndre Yedlin, Jamaal Lascelles, Ciaran Clark, Paul Dummett, Christian Atsu, Jonjo Shelvey, Isaac Hayden, Yoan Gouffran, Ayoze Pérez, Aleksandar Mitrović
Cardiff City line-up (4-5-1)
Ben Amos, Lee Peltier, Sean Morrison, Sol Bamba, Joe Bennett, Craig Noone, Kieran Richardson, Aron Gunnarsson, Joe Ralls, Junior Hoilett, Rickie Lambert