Middlesbrough 1-1 Cardiff City: result and report

Championship · Saturday 4 January 2025

Result

Middlesbrough 1-1 Cardiff City

Championship · Saturday 4 January 2025, 15:00 UTC · half-time 1-1

Middlesbrough · Cardiff City · Championship predictions

Middlesbrough 1-1 Cardiff City: match report

Middlesbrough drew with Cardiff City 1-1 in the Championship on Saturday 4 January 2025. It was 1-1 at half-time.

Emmanuel Latte Lath opened the scoring in the 11th minute. Middlesbrough's goal came from Emmanuel Latte Lath (11'). Cardiff City scored through Calum Chambers (21').

Discipline: Middlesbrough received 2 yellow cards; Cardiff City received 3 yellow cards.

Going into the game Middlesbrough were 5th on 40 points from 25 and Cardiff City 23rd on 22 points from 24. Middlesbrough went on to finish that season 10th with 64 points, and Cardiff City 24th with 44.

Middlesbrough lined up in a 4-2-3-1 and Cardiff City in a 4-2-3-1. The highest match rating in our data went to Alex Robertson of Cardiff City (7.4), ahead of Rav van den Berg (7.3).

Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 6 Middlesbrough wins, 2 draws and 2 for Cardiff City.

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

Data as of 4 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 11'Goal · Emmanuel Latte LathMiddlesbrough · 1-0
  • 21'Goal · Calum ChambersCardiff City · 1-1
  • 30'Yellow card · Callum O'DowdaCardiff City
  • 75'Yellow card · Ben Gannon-DoakMiddlesbrough
  • 76'Yellow card · Andy RinomhotaCardiff City
  • 80'Yellow card · Alex RobertsonCardiff City
  • 89'Yellow card · Dan BarlaserMiddlesbrough

Head-to-head

10 meetings: Middlesbrough 6, draws 2, Cardiff City 2.

Team news

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Middlesbrough line-up (4-2-3-1)

Tom Glover, Anfernee Dijksteel, Dael Fry, Rav van den Berg, Neto Borges, Dan Barlaser, Hayden Hackney, Ben Gannon-Doak, Finn Azaz, Delano Burgzorg, Emmanuel Latte Lath

Cardiff City line-up (4-2-3-1)

Jak Alnwick, Andrew Farai Rinomhota, Dimitrios Goutas, Jesper Daland, Callum O'Dowda, Manolis Siopis, Calum Chambers, Cian Ashford, Alex Robertson, Ollie Tanner, Rubin Colwill