Cardiff City 3-1 Peterborough United: result and report

Championship · Tuesday 14 February 2012

Result

Cardiff City 3-1 Peterborough United

Championship · Tuesday 14 February 2012, 19:45 UTC · half-time 3-0

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Cardiff City 3-1 Peterborough United: match report

Cardiff City beat Peterborough United 3-1 in the Championship on Tuesday 14 February 2012. It was 3-0 at half-time.

Peter Whittingham opened the scoring in the 34th minute. Cardiff City's goals came from Peter Whittingham (34'), Rudy Gestede (38') and Haris Vuckic (40'). Peterborough United scored through Paul Taylor (90').

Discipline: Cardiff City received 1 yellow card; Peterborough United received 1 yellow card.

Going into the game Cardiff City were 4th on 50 points from 30 and Peterborough United 18th on 34 points from 29. Cardiff City went on to finish that season 6th with 75 points, and Peterborough United 19th with 50.

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

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

Data as of 4 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 23'Yellow card · M. BriggsPeterborough United
  • 34'Goal · Peter WhittinghamCardiff City · 1-0
  • 38'Goal · Rudy GestedeCardiff City · 2-0
  • 40'Goal · Haris VuckicCardiff City · 3-0
  • 78'Yellow card · Joe MasonCardiff City
  • 90'Goal · Paul TaylorPeterborough United · 3-1

Head-to-head

3 meetings: Cardiff City 1, draws 1, Peterborough United 1.

Team news

Cardiff City line-up

Txiki Acaz, Kevin McNaughton, Andrew Taylor, Anthony Gerrard, Ben Turner, Peter Whittingham, D. Cowie, Aron Gunnarsson, H. Vučkić, Kenny Miller, Rudy Gestede

Peterborough United line-up

Joe Lewis, Matthew Briggs, Ryan Bennett, Gabriel Zakuani, Craig Alcock, George Boyd, Tommy Rowe, Lee Frecklington, David Ball, Paul Taylor, Grant McCann