Cardiff City 2-1 Doncaster Rovers: result and report

Championship · Saturday 30 January 2010

Result

Cardiff City 2-1 Doncaster Rovers

Championship · Saturday 30 January 2010, 15:00 UTC · half-time 1-0

Cardiff City · Doncaster Rovers · Championship predictions

Cardiff City 2-1 Doncaster Rovers: match report

Cardiff City defeated Doncaster Rovers 2-1 in the Championship on Saturday 30 January 2010. It was 1-0 at half-time.

Michael Chopra opened the scoring in the 9th minute. Cardiff City's goals came from Michael Chopra (9') and Jay Bothroyd (90'). Doncaster Rovers scored through Gareth Roberts (65').

Discipline: Cardiff City received 1 yellow card; Doncaster Rovers received 3 yellow cards.

Going into the game Cardiff City were 4th on 42 points from 26 and Doncaster Rovers 13th on 33 points from 25. Cardiff City went on to finish that season 3rd with 80 points, and Doncaster Rovers 12th with 60.

Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 1 Cardiff City win, 1 draw and 1 for Doncaster Rovers.

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

Data as of 4 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 9'Goal · Michael ChopraCardiff City · 1-0
  • 40'Yellow card · D. ShielsDoncaster Rovers
  • 65'Goal · Gareth RobertsDoncaster Rovers · 1-1
  • 84'Yellow card · Solomon TaiwoCardiff City
  • 86'Yellow card · Brian StockDoncaster Rovers
  • 89'Yellow card · J. ChambersDoncaster Rovers
  • 90'Goal · Jay BothroydCardiff City · 2-1

Head-to-head

3 meetings: Cardiff City 1, draws 1, Doncaster Rovers 1.