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Cardiff City

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Cardiff City, who won their previous game, will hope for a similar result following a 1-2 Championship victory over Blackburn Rovers.

In that match, Cardiff City had 35% possession and 10 shots at goal with 4 on target. For Cardiff City, the goals were scored by Yousef Salech (4') and Yakou Meïté (73'). On the other side, Blackburn Rovers got 8 attempts at goal with 2 on target. Yuki Ohashi (16') was the scorer for Blackburn Rovers.

It’s been a rare occasion in recent games where Cardiff City have shown defensive steel. The facts show that Cardiff City have seen their defence breached in 5 of their previous 6 clashes, leaking 9 goals in the process. Such a trend isn’t assured to be sustained into this game, however.

A look at their previous results shows us that Cardiff City:

• are unbeaten in the league by Sheffield Wednesday in their previous 3 matches.
• haven’t won at home in the past 2 matches in the league.

Sheffield Wednesday

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After a losing effort in their last game against Sheffield United in Championship competition, Sheffield Wednesday will be hoping to turn things around here.

In that match, Sheffield Wednesday had 52% possession and 14 attempts at goal with 3 on target. Sheffield United got 9 shots at goal with 2 on target. Rhian Brewster (64') scored for Sheffield United.

In a total of 5 out of the previous 6 games featuring Sheffield Wednesday, at least three goals have been struck. The average goals scored per match within that spell is 3.17, with the number of goals averaged by Sheffield Wednesday being 1.33.

Coming into this contest, Sheffield Wednesday are unbeaten in their previous 2 league matches away from home.

🤜🤛 Head to head

Inspecting their past head to head clashes going back to 12/09/2020 tells us that Cardiff City have won 2 of these games & Sheffield Wednesday 3, with the number of drawn games standing at 1.

A sum of 19 goals were yielded between them in these games, with 5 for The Bluebirds and 14 for The Owls. This gives an average number of goals per game equal to 3.17.

The previous league contest between these clubs was Championship match day 16 on 23/11/2024 when it finished Sheffield Wednesday 1-1 Cardiff City.

That time, Sheffield Wednesday managed 62% possession and 16 shots at goal with 3 on target. Their only player on the scoresheet was Di'Shon Bernard (36').

Cardiff City got 9 shots at goal with 4 of them on target. Ollie Tanner (34') scored.

The referee was Andrew Kitchen.

📰 Team News: Cardiff City

Aaron Ramsey (Hamstring injury) and Callum O'Dowda (unknown injury) won’t be able to feature for Cardiff City boss Omer Riza.

ℹ️ Team News: Sheffield Wednesday

Sheffield Wednesday boss Danny Röhl has some current player fitness concerns. Akin Famewo (Muscle injury) and Di'Shon Bernard (Knee injury) are not able to play.

🧠 Prediction

We’re of the opinion that Sheffield Wednesday and Cardiff City could both well score here although it’s hard to see a clear-cut winner.

We’ll see, but this looks like it could end up all-square. We’re therefore tipping a tight encounter, finishing with a 1-1 score draw at the end of the 90 minutes.

Victor Martins, 14:01 29/03/2025