Cardiff City 0-2 Newcastle United: result and report
Championship · Friday 28 April 2017
Result
Cardiff City 0-2 Newcastle United
Championship · Friday 28 April 2017, 18:45 UTC · half-time 0-0
Cardiff City 0-2 Newcastle United: match report
Cardiff City lost to Newcastle United 0-2 in the Championship on Friday 28 April 2017. The half-time score was 0-0.
Christian Atsu opened the scoring in the 55th minute. Cardiff City did not score. Newcastle United scored through Christian Atsu (55') and Isaac Hayden (65').
Discipline: Cardiff City received 1 yellow card; Newcastle United received no yellow cards.
Going into the game Cardiff City were 13th on 61 points from 44 and Newcastle United 2nd on 89 points from 44. Cardiff City went on to finish that season 11th with 64 points, and Newcastle United 1st with 95.
Cardiff City lined up in a 4-1-4-1 and Newcastle United in a 4-4-1-1. The highest match rating in our data went to Isaac Hayden of Newcastle United (8.4), ahead of Ciaran Clark (8.1).
Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 0 Cardiff City wins, 0 draws and 5 for Newcastle United.
Key events
- 55'Goal · Christian Atsu
- 65'Goal · Isaac Hayden
- 79'Yellow card · J. Richards
Head-to-head
Team news
Cardiff City line-up (4-1-4-1)
Allan McGregor, Jazz Richards, Sean Morrison, Bruno Ecuele Manga, Joe Bennett, Greg Halford, Junior Hoilett, Aron Gunnarsson, Peter Whittingham, Kadeem Harris, Kenneth Zohore
Newcastle United line-up (4-4-1-1)
Robert Elliot, DeAndre Yedlin, Chancel Mbemba, Ciaran Clark, Paul Dummett, Ayoze Pérez, Isaac Hayden, Jack Colback, Christian Atsu, Mohamed Diamé, Daryl Murphy