Cardiff City 2-0 Charlton Athletic: result and report

Championship · Saturday 18 October 2008

Result

Cardiff City 2-0 Charlton Athletic

Championship · Saturday 18 October 2008, 14:00 UTC · half-time 1-0

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Cardiff City 2-0 Charlton Athletic: match report

Cardiff City defeated Charlton Athletic 2-0 in the Championship on Saturday 18 October 2008. It was 1-0 at half-time.

Ross McCormack opened the scoring in the 18th minute. Cardiff City's goals came from Ross McCormack (18') and Ross McCormack (52'). Charlton Athletic did not score.

Discipline: Cardiff City received 1 yellow card; Charlton Athletic received 2 yellow cards and 2 red cards.

Going into the game Cardiff City were 7th on 15 points from 10 and Charlton Athletic 14th on 13 points from 10. Cardiff City went on to finish that season 7th with 74 points, and Charlton Athletic 24th with 39.

Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 0 Cardiff City wins, 0 draws and 2 for Charlton Athletic.

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

Data as of 4 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 18'Goal · Ross McCormackCardiff City · 1-0
  • 51'Red card · José SemedoCharlton Athletic
  • 52'Goal · Ross McCormackCardiff City · 2-0
  • 66'Yellow card · M. HudsonCharlton Athletic
  • 67'Second yellow · M. HudsonCharlton Athletic
  • 78'Yellow card · Jay BothroydCardiff City
  • 90'Yellow card · Hameur BouazzaCharlton Athletic

Head-to-head

2 meetings: Cardiff City 0, draws 0, Charlton Athletic 2.

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