Preston North End 2-2 Cardiff City: result and report

Championship · Tuesday 8 April 2025

Result

Preston North End 2-2 Cardiff City

Championship · Tuesday 8 April 2025, 18:45 UTC · half-time 1-0

Preston North End · Cardiff City · Championship predictions

Preston North End 2-2 Cardiff City: match report

Preston North End drew with Cardiff City 2-2 in the Championship on Tuesday 8 April 2025. It was 1-0 at half-time.

Milutin Osmajic opened the scoring in the 19th minute. Preston North End's goals came from Milutin Osmajic (19') and Stefán Teitur Thórdarson (72'). Cardiff City scored through Will Alves (52') and Yakou Méïté (90+4').

Discipline: Preston North End received no yellow cards; Cardiff City received 2 yellow cards.

Going into the game Preston North End were 14th on 48 points from 40 and Cardiff City 22nd on 41 points from 40. Preston North End went on to finish that season 20th with 50 points, and Cardiff City 24th with 44.

Preston North End lined up in a 3-4-2-1 and Cardiff City in a 3-4-3. The highest match rating in our data went to Rubin Colwill of Cardiff City (7.8), ahead of Robbie Brady (7.6).

Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 3 Preston North End wins, 2 draws and 5 for Cardiff City.

Data as of 4 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 19'Goal · Milutin OsmajicPreston North End · 1-0
  • 52'Goal · Will AlvesCardiff City · 1-1
  • 72'Goal · Stefán Teitur ThórdarsonPreston North End · 2-1
  • 78'Yellow card · Alex RobertsonCardiff City
  • 86'Yellow card · Will FishCardiff City
  • 90+4'Goal · Yakou MéïtéCardiff City · 2-2

Head-to-head

10 meetings: Preston North End 3, draws 2, Cardiff City 5.

Team news

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Preston North End line-up (3-4-2-1)

David Cornell, Ryan Porteous, Lewis Gibson, Andrew Hughes, Kaine Kesler-Hayden, Stefán Teitur Thórdarson, Ben Whiteman, Robbie Brady, Will Keane, Mads Frøkjaer-Jensen, Milutin Osmajic

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

Ethan Horvath, Will Fish, Dimitrios Goutas, Jesper Daland, Andrew Farai Rinomhota, Calum Chambers, Sivert Mannsverk, Callum O'Dowda, Cian Ashford, Yousef Salech, Rubin Colwill