Cardiff City 2-1 Watford: result and report
Championship · Wednesday 18 March 2009
Result
Cardiff City 2-1 Watford
Championship · Wednesday 18 March 2009, 19:45 UTC · half-time 1-1
Cardiff City 2-1 Watford: match report
Cardiff City beat Watford 2-1 in the Championship on Wednesday 18 March 2009. The half-time score was 1-1.
Mark Smith opened the scoring in the 10th minute. Cardiff City's goals came from Jay Bothroyd (14') and Ross McCormack (90', penalty). Watford scored through Mark Smith (10', penalty).
Discipline: Cardiff City received 2 yellow cards; Watford received 4 yellow cards.
Going into the game Cardiff City were 6th on 60 points from 36 and Watford 16th on 46 points from 37. Cardiff City went on to finish that season 7th with 74 points, and Watford 13th with 58.
Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 0 Cardiff City wins, 2 draws and 3 for Watford.
Going into the match Cardiff City's last five read D-L-W-W-L and Watford's D-W-W-L-W.
Key events
- 10'Penalty goal · Mark Smith
- 14'Goal · Jay Bothroyd
- 29'Yellow card · J. Cork
- 44'Yellow card · A. Mariappa
- 48'Yellow card · Kevin McNaughton
- 78'Yellow card · Jobi McAnuff
- 87'Yellow card · Jay DeMerit
- 90'Penalty goal · Ross McCormack
- 90'Yellow card · Ross McCormack
Head-to-head
Team news
Watford expected line-up
Ben Foster, Daniel Shittu, Jordan Stewart, Lloyd Doyley, Jay DeMerit, Douglas Rinaldi, Gavin Mahon, Alhassan Bangura, Damien Francis, Tommy Smith, Marlon King