Cardiff City 2-1 Huddersfield Town: result and report

Championship · Wednesday 21 August 2019

Result

Cardiff City 2-1 Huddersfield Town

Championship · Wednesday 21 August 2019, 18:45 UTC · half-time 1-0

Cardiff City · Huddersfield Town · Championship predictions

Cardiff City 2-1 Huddersfield Town: match report

Cardiff City defeated Huddersfield Town 2-1 in the Championship on Wednesday 21 August 2019. It was 1-0 at half-time.

J. Ralls opened the scoring in the 42nd minute. Cardiff City's goals came from J. Ralls (42') and Junior Hoilett (88'). Huddersfield Town scored through T. Chalobah (50').

Discipline: Cardiff City received 1 yellow card; Huddersfield Town received 1 yellow card.

Going into the game Cardiff City were 20th on 3 points from 3 and Huddersfield Town 22nd on 1 point from 3. Cardiff City went on to finish that season 5th with 76 points, and Huddersfield Town 19th with 51.

Cardiff City lined up in a 4-2-3-1 and Huddersfield Town in a 4-2-3-1. The highest match rating in our data went to Trevoh Chalobah of Huddersfield Town (8.3), ahead of Joe Ralls (7.8).

Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 6 Cardiff City wins, 4 draws and 0 for Huddersfield Town.

Data as of 4 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 42'Goal · J. RallsCardiff City · 1-0
  • 50'Goal · T. ChalobahHuddersfield Town · 1-1
  • 56'Yellow card · Joe BennettCardiff City
  • 80'Yellow card · Tommy ElphickHuddersfield Town
  • 88'Goal · Junior HoilettCardiff City · 2-1

Head-to-head

10 meetings: Cardiff City 6, draws 4, Huddersfield Town 0.

Team news

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

Alex Smithies, Lee Peltier, Joe Bennett, Sean Morrison, Aden Flint, Leandro Bacuna, Joe Ralls, Josh Murphy, Lee Tomlin, Gavin Whyte, Robert Glatzel

Huddersfield Town line-up (4-2-3-1)

Kamil Grabara, Tommy Elphick, Terence Kongolo, Christopher Schindler, Florent Hadergjonaj, Jonathan Hogg, Trevoh Chalobah, Rajiv van La Parra, Isaac Mbenza, Alex Pritchard, Karlan Grant