Cardiff City 2-1 Watford: result and report
Championship · Tuesday 23 October 2012
Result
Cardiff City 2-1 Watford
Championship · Tuesday 23 October 2012, 18:45 UTC · half-time 0-1
Cardiff City 2-1 Watford: match report
Cardiff City beat Watford 2-1 in the Championship on Tuesday 23 October 2012. It was 0-1 at half-time.
Tommie Hoban opened the scoring in the 28th minute. Cardiff City's goals came from Peter Whittingham (71', penalty) and A. Gunnarsson (90+1'). Watford scored through Tommie Hoban (28').
Discipline: Cardiff City received 1 yellow card; Watford received 2 yellow cards and 2 red cards.
Going into the game Cardiff City were 2nd on 22 points from 11 and Watford 13th on 16 points from 11. Cardiff City went on to finish that season 1st with 87 points, and Watford 2nd with 79.
Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 4 Cardiff City wins, 4 draws and 2 for Watford.
Going into the match Cardiff City's last five read L-W-W-W-L and Watford's W-L-W-W-D.
Key events
- 17'Yellow card · Marco Cassetti
- 28'Goal · Tommie Hoban
- 55'Yellow card · M. Hudson
- 63'Red card · Daniel Pudil
- 69'Yellow card · Mark Yeates
- 71'Penalty goal · Peter Whittingham
- 71'Red card · Nathaniel Chalobah
- 90+1'Goal · A. Gunnarsson
Head-to-head
Team news
Cardiff City line-up
Txiki Acaz, Andrew Taylor, Ben Turner, Matthew Connolly, Peter Whittingham, D. Cowie, Tommy Smith, Craig Noone, Heidar Helguson, Craig Bellamy, Mark Hudson
Watford line-up
Almunia, Fitz Hall, Lloyd Doyley, Daniel Pudil, Marco Cassetti, Tommie Hoban, Mark Yeates, Jonathan Hogg, Nathaniel Chalobah, Matej Vydra, Alexandre Geijo