Cardiff City 1-1 Coventry City: result and report

Championship · Wednesday 1 January 2025

Result

Cardiff City 1-1 Coventry City

Championship · Wednesday 1 January 2025, 15:00 UTC · half-time 1-0

Cardiff City · Coventry City · Championship predictions

Cardiff City 1-1 Coventry City: match report

Cardiff City drew with Coventry City 1-1 in the Championship on Wednesday 1 January 2025. The half-time score was 1-0.

Alex Robertson opened the scoring in the 6th minute. Cardiff City's goal came from Alex Robertson (6'). Coventry City scored through Tatsuhiro Sakamoto (46').

Discipline: Cardiff City received 3 yellow cards and 1 red card; Coventry City received no yellow cards.

Going into the game Cardiff City were 22nd on 21 points from 23 and Coventry City 16th on 28 points from 24. Cardiff City went on to finish that season 24th with 44 points, and Coventry City 5th with 72.

Cardiff City lined up in a 4-2-3-1 and Coventry City in a 4-2-3-1. The highest match rating in our data went to Jak Alnwick of Cardiff City (8.0), ahead of Andrew Farai Rinomhota (7.8).

Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 4 Cardiff City wins, 3 draws and 3 for Coventry City.

Data as of 4 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 6'Goal · Alex RobertsonCardiff City · 1-0
  • 46'Goal · Tatsuhiro SakamotoCoventry City · 1-1
  • 47'Red card · Callum RobinsonCardiff City
  • 83'Yellow card · Perry NgCardiff City
  • 90+4'Yellow cardCardiff City
  • 90+4'Yellow card · Jak AlnwickCardiff City

Head-to-head

10 meetings: Cardiff City 4, draws 3, Coventry City 3.

Team news

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Cardiff City line-up (4-2-3-1)

Jak Alnwick, Andrew Farai Rinomhota, Dimitrios Goutas, Jesper Daland, Callum O'Dowda, Manolis Siopis, Calum Chambers, Cian Ashford, Alex Robertson, Chris Willock, Callum Robinson

Coventry City line-up (4-2-3-1)

Oliver Dovin, Milan van Ewijk, Bobby Thomas, Joel Latibeaudiere, Jake Bidwell, Josh Eccles, Ben Sheaf, Tatsuhiro Sakamoto, Victor Torp, Jack Rudoni, Ellis Simms