Cardiff City 2-2 Queens Park Rangers: result and report

Championship · Saturday 23 April 2011

Result

Cardiff City 2-2 Queens Park Rangers

Championship · Saturday 23 April 2011, 11:45 UTC · half-time 2-1

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Cardiff City 2-2 Queens Park Rangers: match report

Cardiff City drew with Queens Park Rangers 2-2 in the Championship on Saturday 23 April 2011. It was 2-1 at half-time.

Jay Bothroyd opened the scoring in the 6th minute. Cardiff City's goals came from Jay Bothroyd (6') and Craig Bellamy (35'). Queens Park Rangers scored through A. Taarabt (10') and A. Taarabt (71').

Discipline: Cardiff City received 2 yellow cards; Queens Park Rangers received no yellow cards.

Going into the game Cardiff City were 3rd on 75 points from 42 and Queens Park Rangers 1st on 83 points from 42. Cardiff City went on to finish that season 4th with 81 points, and Queens Park Rangers 1st with 88.

Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 3 Cardiff City wins, 2 draws and 5 for Queens Park Rangers.

Going into the match Cardiff City's last five read W-W-W-W-D and Queens Park Rangers's D-W-L-W-W.

Data as of 4 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 6'Goal · Jay BothroydCardiff City · 1-0
  • 10'Goal · A. TaarabtQueens Park Rangers · 1-1
  • 33'Yellow card · Peter WhittinghamCardiff City
  • 35'Goal · Craig BellamyCardiff City · 2-1
  • 68'Yellow card · Paul QuinnCardiff City
  • 71'Goal · A. TaarabtQueens Park Rangers · 2-2

Head-to-head

10 meetings: Cardiff City 3, draws 2, Queens Park Rangers 5.

Team news

Cardiff City line-up

Stephen Bywater, Kevin McNaughton, Dekel Keinan, Paul Quinn, Peter Whittingham, Stephen McPhail, C. Burke, Oluwaseyi Olofinjana, Jlloyd Samuel, Craig Bellamy, Jay Bothroyd

Queens Park Rangers line-up

Paddy Kenny, Bradley Orr, Clint Hill, Kaspars Gorkss, Matthew Connolly, Adel Taarabt, Alejandro Faurlin, Wayne Routledge, Heidar Helguson, Tommy Smith, Shaun Derry