Huddersfield Town 2-3 Cardiff City: result and report

Championship · Saturday 30 January 2016

Result

Huddersfield Town 2-3 Cardiff City

Championship · Saturday 30 January 2016, 15:00 UTC · half-time 1-1

Huddersfield Town · Cardiff City · Championship predictions

Huddersfield Town 2-3 Cardiff City: match report

Huddersfield Town were beaten by Cardiff City 2-3 in the Championship on Saturday 30 January 2016. It was 1-1 at half-time.

Peter Whittingham opened the scoring in the 37th minute. Huddersfield Town's goals came from N. Wells (40') and H. Bunn (90+2'). Cardiff City scored through Peter Whittingham (37'), L. Immers (61') and Peter Whittingham (79').

Discipline: Huddersfield Town received 2 yellow cards; Cardiff City received 3 yellow cards.

Going into the game Huddersfield Town were 17th on 32 points from 28 and Cardiff City 9th on 41 points from 28. Huddersfield Town went on to finish that season 19th with 51 points, and Cardiff City 8th with 68.

Huddersfield Town lined up in a 4-2-3-1 and Cardiff City in a 4-4-2.

Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 0 Huddersfield Town wins, 2 draws and 3 for Cardiff City.

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

Data as of 4 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 37'Goal · Peter WhittinghamCardiff City · 0-1
  • 40'Goal · N. WellsHuddersfield Town · 1-1
  • 52'Yellow card · J. LynchHuddersfield Town
  • 55'Yellow card · Stuart O'KeefeCardiff City
  • 61'Goal · L. ImmersCardiff City · 1-2
  • 73'Yellow card · FábioCardiff City
  • 76'Yellow card · N. WellsHuddersfield Town
  • 79'Goal · Peter WhittinghamCardiff City · 1-3
  • 89'Yellow card · A. GunnarssonCardiff City
  • 90+2'Goal · H. BunnHuddersfield Town · 2-3

Head-to-head

5 meetings: Huddersfield Town 0, draws 2, Cardiff City 3.

Team news

Huddersfield Town expected line-up (4-2-3-1)

Alex Smithies, Joel Lynch, Mark Hudson, Tommy Smith, Anthony Gerrard, Peter Clarke, Jonathan Hogg, Sean Scannell, Jacob Butterfield, Adam Clayton, James Vaughan

Cardiff City expected line-up (4-4-2)

Txiki Acaz, Sean Morrison, Fábio, John Brayford, Peter Whittingham, Joe Ralls, Anthony Pilkington, Kenwyne Jones