Cardiff City 3-2 Huddersfield Town: result and report
Championship · Saturday 19 November 2016
Result
Cardiff City 3-2 Huddersfield Town
Championship · Saturday 19 November 2016, 15:00 UTC · half-time 3-1
Cardiff City 3-2 Huddersfield Town: match report
Cardiff City beat Huddersfield Town 3-2 in the Championship on Saturday 19 November 2016. The half-time score was 3-1.
S. Morrison opened the scoring in the 15th minute. Cardiff City's goals came from S. Morrison (15'), Junior Hoilett (17') and Rickie Lambert (33'). Huddersfield Town scored through T. Smith (28') and Philip Billing (70').
Discipline: Cardiff City received 2 yellow cards; Huddersfield Town received 5 yellow cards.
Going into the game Cardiff City were 20th on 17 points from 16 and Huddersfield Town 7th on 25 points from 16. Cardiff City went on to finish that season 11th with 64 points, and Huddersfield Town 5th with 80.
Cardiff City lined up in a 3-5-2 and Huddersfield Town in a 3-4-2-1. The highest match rating in our data went to Sean Morrison of Cardiff City (8.4), ahead of Kasey Palmer (8.1).
Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 4 Cardiff City wins, 2 draws and 0 for Huddersfield Town.
Key events
- 15'Goal · S. Morrison
- 15'Yellow card · Danny Ward
- 17'Goal · Junior Hoilett
- 28'Goal · T. Smith
- 33'Goal · Rickie Lambert
- 48'Yellow card · Lee Peltier
- 49'Yellow card · Jonathan Hogg
- 49'Yellow card · Aaron Mooy
- 70'Goal · Philip Billing
- 72'Yellow card · Sol Bamba
- 72'Yellow card · Michael Hefele
- 80'Yellow card · Jon Gorenc Stankovic
Head-to-head
Team news
Cardiff City line-up (3-5-2)
Ben Amos, Lee Peltier, Sean Morrison, Sol Bamba, Anthony Pilkington, Joe Ralls, Aron Gunnarsson, Peter Whittingham, Joe Bennett, Junior Hoilett, Rickie Lambert
Huddersfield Town line-up (3-4-2-1)
Danny Ward, Michael Hefele, Jon Gorenc Stankovic, Christopher Schindler, Tommy Smith, Jonathan Hogg, Aaron Mooy, Chris Löwe, Elias Kachunga, Kasey Palmer, Nahki Wells