Wolverhampton Wanderers 2-0 Cardiff City: result and report
Premier League · Saturday 2 March 2019
Result
Wolverhampton Wanderers 2-0 Cardiff City
Premier League · Saturday 2 March 2019, 15:00 UTC · half-time 2-0
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Wolverhampton Wanderers 2-0 Cardiff City: match report
Wolverhampton Wanderers defeated Cardiff City 2-0 in the Premier League on Saturday 2 March 2019. It was 2-0 at half-time.
Diogo Jota opened the scoring in the 16th minute. Wolverhampton Wanderers's goals came from Diogo Jota (16') and Raúl Jiménez (18'). Cardiff City did not score.
Discipline: Wolverhampton Wanderers received 1 yellow card; Cardiff City received 2 yellow cards.
Going into the game Wolverhampton Wanderers were 7th on 40 points from 28 and Cardiff City 18th on 25 points from 28. Wolverhampton Wanderers went on to finish that season 7th with 57 points, and Cardiff City 18th with 34.
Wolverhampton Wanderers lined up in a 3-5-2 and Cardiff City in a 4-3-1-2. The highest match rating in our data went to Raúl Jiménez of Wolverhampton Wanderers (8.6), level with Diogo Jota (8.6).
Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 0 Wolverhampton Wanderers wins, 0 draws and 1 for Cardiff City.
Key events
- 16'Goal · Diogo Jota
- 18'Goal · Raúl Jiménez
- 34'Yellow card · Ryan Bennett
- 45+1'Yellow card · Sol Bamba
- 62'Yellow card · Lee Peltier
Head-to-head
Team news
Wolverhampton Wanderers line-up (3-5-2)
John Ruddy, Ryan Bennett, Conor Coady, Willy Boly, Adama Traoré, Leander Dendoncker, Romain Saïss, Morgan Gibbs-White, Rúben Vinagre, Raúl Jiménez, Diogo Jota
Cardiff City line-up (4-3-1-2)
Neil Etheridge, Lee Peltier, Sean Morrison, Sol Bamba, Joe Bennett, Víctor Camarasa, Aron Gunnarsson, Joe Ralls, Bobby De Cordova-Reid, Kenneth Zohore, Oumar Niasse