Queens Park Rangers 2-1 Cardiff City: result and report
Championship · Saturday 4 March 2017
Result
Queens Park Rangers 2-1 Cardiff City
Championship · Saturday 4 March 2017, 15:00 UTC · half-time 0-1
Queens Park Rangers · Cardiff City · Championship predictions
Queens Park Rangers 2-1 Cardiff City: match report
Queens Park Rangers beat Cardiff City 2-1 in the Championship on Saturday 4 March 2017. It was 0-1 at half-time.
Sol Bamba opened the scoring in the 45th minute. Queens Park Rangers's goals came from Isaac Moreno (62') and an own goal by J. Richards (83'). Cardiff City scored through Sol Bamba (45').
Discipline: Queens Park Rangers received 2 yellow cards; Cardiff City received 1 yellow card.
Going into the game Queens Park Rangers were 17th on 41 points from 34 and Cardiff City 12th on 48 points from 34. Queens Park Rangers went on to finish that season 17th with 54 points, and Cardiff City 11th with 64.
Queens Park Rangers lined up in a 3-4-2-1 and Cardiff City in a 4-4-1-1. The highest match rating in our data went to Joel Lynch of Queens Park Rangers (7.8), ahead of Sol Bamba (7.7).
Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 4 Queens Park Rangers wins, 4 draws and 2 for Cardiff City.
Key events
- 40'Yellow card · Massimo Luongo
- 45'Goal · Sol Bamba
- 62'Goal · Isaac Moreno
- 66'Yellow card · S. Morrison
- 83'Own goal · J. Richards
- 88'Yellow card · James Perch
Head-to-head
Team news
Queens Park Rangers line-up (3-4-2-1)
Alex Smithies, Nedum Onuoha, Grant Hall, Joel Lynch, James Perch, Massimo Luongo, Sean Goss, Jake Bidwell, Jamie Mackie, Conor Washington, Matt Smith
Cardiff City line-up (4-4-1-1)
Allan McGregor, Matthew Connolly, Sean Morrison, Sol Bamba, Jazz Richards, Craig Noone, Aron Gunnarsson, Joe Ralls, Kadeem Harris, Junior Hoilett, Kenneth Zohore