Cardiff City 2-2 Brentford: result and report
Championship · Saturday 29 February 2020
Result
Cardiff City 2-2 Brentford
Championship · Saturday 29 February 2020, 15:00 UTC · half-time 2-2
Cardiff City 2-2 Brentford: match report
Cardiff City drew with Brentford 2-2 in the Championship on Saturday 29 February 2020. The half-time score was 2-2.
Luka Racic opened the scoring in the 5th minute. Cardiff City's goals came from Junior Hoilett (34') and Joe Ralls (45+1'). Brentford scored through Luka Racic (5') and Bryan Mbeumo (21').
Discipline: Cardiff City received 4 yellow cards; Brentford received 1 yellow card.
Going into the game Cardiff City were 11th on 50 points from 35 and Brentford 5th on 56 points from 35. Cardiff City went on to finish that season 5th with 76 points, and Brentford 2nd with 85.
Cardiff City lined up in a 4-3-3 and Brentford in a 4-3-3. The highest match rating in our data went to Albert Adomah of Cardiff City (7.5), ahead of Junior Hoilett (7.4).
Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 5 Cardiff City wins, 1 draw and 3 for Brentford.
Key events
- 5'Goal · Luka Racic
- 21'Goal · Bryan Mbeumo
- 23'Yellow card · Albert Adomah
- 34'Goal · Junior Hoilett
- 45+1'Goal · Joe Ralls
- 52'Yellow card · Leandro Bacuna
- 75'Yellow card · Junior Hoilett
- 81'Yellow card · Will Vaulks
- 85'Yellow card · Shandon Baptiste
Head-to-head
Team news
Cardiff City line-up (4-3-3)
Alex Smithies, Dion Sanderson, Sean Morrison, Curtis Nelson, Joe Bennett, Will Vaulks, Joe Ralls, Leandro Bacuna, Albert Adomah, Callum Paterson, Junior Hoilett
Brentford line-up (4-3-3)
David Raya, Henrik Dalsgaard, Luka Racic, Ethan Pinnock, Rico Henry, Emiliano Marcondes, Christian Nørgaard, Josh Dasilva, Bryan Mbeumo, Ollie Watkins, Saïd Benrahma