📏 Form Guide

Millwall

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Millwall will be hoping for a better result following a 0-1 Championship defeat last time out to Hull City.

In that match, Millwall had 52% possession and 12 shots on goal with 1 on target. The only player on the scoresheet for Millwall was Jake Cooper (58' Own goal). On the other side, Hull City got 7 shots at goal with 2 on target.

Alex Neil's Millwall have hit the target a sum total of 7 times in their last six outings. The corresponding tally of goals that have been scored against them in those same games is 5.

Coming into this clash, Millwall have not won at home in their last 2 league matches.

Cardiff City

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Cardiff City come into this clash after a 3-0 Championship win in the defeat of Swansea City in their most recent fixture.

In that game, Cardiff City managed 30% possession and 11 attempts at goal with 6 on target. For Cardiff City, goals were scored by Callum Robinson (47', 51') and Dimitris Goutas (67'). Swansea City got 6 attempts on goal with 2 of them on target.

In their previous half-dozen outings, Cardiff City have bagged the sum of 8 goals. Cardiff City have also managed to score on each one of those occasions. During those fixtures, their defenders have seen 7 goals scored by their opponents.

Their previous form shows that Cardiff City:

• have not won against Millwall in away games against them for the last 7 matches in the league. Not the best of away records.
• have not been beaten in their last 2 away league matches.

🤜🤛 Head to head

An examination of their most recent head to head meetings dating back to 12/02/2022 shows that Millwall have won 4 of them and Cardiff City 2, with the number of drawn matches standing at 0.

A combined total of 12 goals were scored between them in these games, with 8 of them for The Lions and 4 coming from The Bluebirds. That is an average goals per game value of 2.

The last league contest between the two was Championship match day 8 on 01/10/2024 when the final score was Cardiff City 1-0 Millwall.

That day, Cardiff City managed 49% possession and 10 shots on goal with 5 of them on target. Their only player on the scoresheet was Perry Ng (39').

At the other end, Millwall had 11 shots on goal with 5 on target.

The match was refereed by Gavin Ward.

ℹ️ Team News: Millwall

In our view, The Lions may well opt for a 3-4-3 system for this one with Lukas Jensen, Japhet Tanganga, Jake Cooper, Joe Bryan, Ryan Leonard, Casper De Norre, George Saville, Calum Scanlon, Duncan Watmore, Mihailo Ivanovic and George Honeyman.

📋 Team News: Cardiff City

Cardiff City manager Omer Riza has to contend with a number of unavailable players. Aaron Ramsey (Hamstring injury) and Roko Simic (unknown injury) are names that won’t be on the team sheet.

We are inclined to think that The Bluebirds appear most likely to make use of a 4-2-3-1 formation, starting Jak Alnwick, Andy Rinomhota, Dimitrios Goutas, Jesper Daland, Joel Bagan, Calum Chambers, Joe Ralls, Cian Ashford, Alexander Robertson, Ollie Tanner and Callum Robinson.

💡 Prediction

We believe that Cardiff City will likely be able to put one past this Millwall lineup, but that probably shouldn’t prevent them from conceding a couple at the other end.

We reckon that it will be a 2-1 advantage for Millwall at the end of the match. Expecting it to be very competitive.

Lucas Pereira, 19:01 21/01/2025