📏 Form Guide

Cardiff City

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Cardiff City will be looking for an improved result here after a 2-1 Championship defeat in their last game at the hands of Sunderland.

In that game, Cardiff City managed 42% possession and 6 shots on goal with 2 of them on target. The only player to score for Cardiff City was Isaak Davies (41'). For their opponents, Sunderland had 19 attempts at goal with 4 on target. Eliezer Mayenda (2') and Chris Mepham (77') scored for Sunderland.

It has been a rare occasion in recent times where Cardiff City have managed to hold out for a full 90 minutes. It will be a concern for them that Cardiff City have seen their defence breached in 5 of their previous 6 matches, shipping 8 goals along the way.

Ahead of this meeting, Cardiff City have not emerged victorious against Luton Town in their last 4 league games.

Luton Town

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After suffering a loss in their previous game against Burnley in Championship competition, Luton Town will be hoping to turn things around here.

In that match, Luton Town managed 28% possession and 3 attempts at goal with 2 on target. The only player on the scoresheet for Luton Town was Mark McGuinness (30' Own goal). For their opponents, Burnley had 16 attempts on goal with 3 on target. Lyle Foster (39'), Josh Brownhill (53') and Ashley Barnes (94') scored for Burnley.

In 5 of the prior six games involving Luton Town, a comparatively low number of goals have been struck between them and opposing sides. The overall average goals scored per game within that period comes out as a paltry 2, with the average goals for The Hatters standing at 0.33. That pattern won’t necessarily follow through here, though.

Going into this game, the form guide shows that Luton Town:

• are undefeated by Cardiff City in games played away from home for the previous 2 league games.
• are without a win away from home in their last 15 league matches. Their travelling supporters must be so depressed.

🤜🤛 Head to head

Checking on their past head-to-head meetings dating back to 16/02/2021 shows that Cardiff City have won 2 of these & Luton Town 4, with the tally of drawn matches being 0.

In all, 11 goals were produced between them throughout the course of those matches, with 5 for The Bluebirds and 6 for The Hatters. That’s an average goals per game figure of 1.83.

The previous league meeting featuring these clubs was Championship match day 14 on 06/11/2024 which finished with the scoreline of Luton Town 1-0 Cardiff City.

In that match, Luton Town managed 44% possession and 8 shots on goal with 3 on target. The scorer was Jacob Brown (57').

On the other side, Cardiff City got 10 attempts on goal with 3 of them on target.

The match was refereed by Matt Donohue.

📰 Team News: Cardiff City

There aren’t many selection issues, with just the lone fitness concern for the Cardiff City manager Omer Riza to contend with from a near full-strength group. Aaron Ramsey (Hamstring injury) is out of contention.

📋 Team News: Luton Town

Thanks to a largely healthy squad, there is only a single fitness issue for the Luton Town gaffer Matt Bloomfield to be concerned with. Tom Lockyer (heart problems) misses out for this game.

🧠 Prediction

We’re envisaging that Luton Town might have a difficult job to put one past this Cardiff City lineup who we think will likely get the vital goal that wins it.

We’ve gone for a very even contest with a 1-0 winning score for Cardiff City at full-time.

We’ll see what happens.

Andre Moura, 19:04 11/03/2025