Watford 1-1 Cardiff City: result and report

Championship · Monday 26 December 2011

Result

Watford 1-1 Cardiff City

Championship · Monday 26 December 2011, 12:00 UTC · half-time 0-0

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Watford 1-1 Cardiff City: match report

Watford drew with Cardiff City 1-1 in the Championship on Monday 26 December 2011. It was 0-0 at half-time.

Prince Bauben opened the scoring in the 62nd minute. Watford's goal came from Prince Bauben (62'). Cardiff City scored through an own goal by A. Mariappa (80').

Discipline: Watford received 1 yellow card; Cardiff City received 1 yellow card.

Going into the game Watford were 18th on 26 points from 22 and Cardiff City 5th on 38 points from 22. Watford went on to finish that season 12th with 64 points, and Cardiff City 6th with 75.

Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 4 Watford wins, 2 draws and 4 for Cardiff City.

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

Data as of 4 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 44'Yellow card · Nyron NosworthyWatford
  • 62'Goal · Prince BaubenWatford · 1-0
  • 78'Yellow card · A. TaylorCardiff City
  • 80'Own goal · A. MariappaCardiff City · 1-1

Head-to-head

10 meetings: Watford 4, draws 2, Cardiff City 4.

Team news

Watford line-up

Scott Loach, Lee Hodson, Carl Dickinson, Adrian Mariappa, Nyron Nosworthy, Mark Yeates, Michael Kightly, Prince Bauben, Jonathan Hogg, Troy Deeney, Marvin Sordell

Cardiff City line-up

Txiki Acaz, Kevin McNaughton, Andrew Taylor, Ben Turner, Filip Kiss, Peter Whittingham, D. Cowie, Aron Gunnarsson, Joe Mason, Mark Hudson, Kenny Miller