Queens Park Rangers 6-1 Cardiff City: result and report

Championship · Wednesday 1 January 2020

Result

Queens Park Rangers 6-1 Cardiff City

Championship · Wednesday 1 January 2020, 15:00 UTC · half-time 3-0

Queens Park Rangers · Cardiff City · Championship predictions

Queens Park Rangers 6-1 Cardiff City: match report

Queens Park Rangers defeated Cardiff City 6-1 in the Championship on Wednesday 1 January 2020. It was 3-0 at half-time.

N. Wells opened the scoring in the 9th minute. Queens Park Rangers's goals came from N. Wells (9'), Bright Osayi-Samuel (27'), Bright Osayi-Samuel (41'), N. Wells (48'), E. Eze (57') and N. Wells (64'). Cardiff City scored through Will Vaulks (90+1').

Discipline: Queens Park Rangers received 2 yellow cards; Cardiff City received 1 yellow card.

Going into the game Queens Park Rangers were 15th on 32 points from 25 and Cardiff City 11th on 37 points from 25. Queens Park Rangers went on to finish that season 14th with 58 points, and Cardiff City 5th with 76.

Queens Park Rangers lined up in a 4-2-3-1 and Cardiff City in a 5-4-1. The highest match rating in our data went to Nahki Wells of Queens Park Rangers (10.0), ahead of Bright Osayi-Samuel (9.4).

Data as of 4 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 9'Goal · N. WellsQueens Park Rangers · 1-0
  • 27'Goal · Bright Osayi-SamuelQueens Park Rangers · 2-0
  • 32'Yellow card · Lee TomlinCardiff City
  • 39'Yellow card · Toni LeistnerQueens Park Rangers
  • 41'Goal · Bright Osayi-SamuelQueens Park Rangers · 3-0
  • 48'Goal · N. WellsQueens Park Rangers · 4-0
  • 57'Goal · E. EzeQueens Park Rangers · 5-0
  • 64'Goal · N. WellsQueens Park Rangers · 6-0
  • 86'Yellow card · Luke AmosQueens Park Rangers
  • 90+1'Goal · Will VaulksCardiff City · 6-1

Head-to-head

10 meetings: Queens Park Rangers 4, draws 3, Cardiff City 3.

Team news

Queens Park Rangers line-up (4-2-3-1)

Joe Lumley, Geoff Cameron, Grant Hall, Toni Leistner, Lee Wallace, Luke Amos, Dominic Ball, Bright Osayi-Samuel, Ilias Chair, Eberechi Eze, Nahki Wells

Cardiff City line-up (5-4-1)

Neil Etheridge, Leandro Bacuna, Curtis Nelson, Aden Flint, Sol Bamba, Jazz Richards, Lee Tomlin, Will Vaulks, Marlon Pack, Junior Hoilett, Robert Glatzel