Cardiff City vs Bournemouth Prediction & Betting Tips

📏 Form Guide

Cardiff City

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Cardiff City will be looking for another win after a 0-1 Championship victory versus Preston North End.

In that game, Cardiff City had 44% possession and 10 attempts on goal with 3 on target. The scorer for Cardiff City was Sheyi Ojo (52'). At the other end, Preston North End got 7 attempts at goal with 4 on target.

Cardiff City have been quite ineffective in attack in recent times. Their ‘goals for’ figure stands at just 4 versus opposition teams over the course of their last six matches. In those games, The Bluebirds have also seen the tally of goals that have gone against them come to 7. That trend won’t necessarily be carried forward into this next game, however.

Coming into this fixture, Cardiff City haven’t won at home in the past 2 league matches.

Bournemouth

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In their last fixture, Bournemouth drew 0-0 in the Championship match with Queens Park Rangers.

On the other side, Queens Park Rangers got 6 attempts at goal with 2 of them on target.

A succession of dependable performances from the Bournemouth defence has resulted in their ‘goals against’ tally amounting to 4 from their past 6 fixtures combined. Over that same period, their forwards have scored 6.

Going into this game, the form guide shows that Bournemouth:

• haven't won against Cardiff City in away games against them for the last 3 league games.
• are unbeaten in their previous 3 league matches away from home.

👥 Head to head

A glance at their prior head-to-head meetings stretching back to 12/08/2008 tells us that Cardiff City have won 2 of them and Bournemouth 3, with the number of drawn results standing at 1.

In all, 20 goals were produced between them in this period, with 8 from The Bluebirds and 12 belonging to The Cherries. That is an average goals per game value of 3.33.

🗞️ Team News: Cardiff City

There’s just one fitness concern for the Cardiff City boss Neil Harris to be concerned about thanks to an almost full-strength squad. Filip Benkovic (Hip Injury) won’t play.

ℹ️ Team News: Bournemouth

Due to a fully healthy squad available to select from, Bournemouth manager Jason Tindall has zero fitness concerns to speak of before this clash.

🔮 Prediction

We are of the inclination to think that Bournemouth and Cardiff City should both get enough opportunities to score, although it’s hard to separate the two.

A close call, and we think a draw is quite likely. Our tip is therefore for a tight encounter, finishing with a 1-1 score draw when all is said and done.

Victor Martins, 23:32 16/10/2020