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.

Data as of 4 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 40'Yellow card · Massimo LuongoQueens Park Rangers
  • 45'Goal · Sol BambaCardiff City · 0-1
  • 62'Goal · Isaac MorenoQueens Park Rangers · 1-1
  • 66'Yellow card · S. MorrisonCardiff City
  • 83'Own goal · J. RichardsQueens Park Rangers · 2-1
  • 88'Yellow card · James PerchQueens Park Rangers

Head-to-head

10 meetings: Queens Park Rangers 4, draws 4, Cardiff City 2.

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