Cardiff City vs Southampton Live Stream, Predictions

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Cardiff City

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Cardiff City will be looking for an improved result here after a 3-1 Championship loss in their previous game against Millwall.

In that match, Cardiff City had 63% possession and 7 shots at goal with 4 of them on target. The scorer for Cardiff City was Yakou Meïté (24'). Millwall got 15 attempts on goal with 7 of them on target. Michael Obafemi (9'), Jake Cooper (45') and Duncan Watmore (93') scored for Millwall.

It’s been a rare occasion in recent times that Cardiff City have shown defensive steel. In fact, Cardiff City have failed to prevent opponents from scoring in 5 of their previous 6 clashes, giving up 11 goals in the process.

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

Southampton

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Southampton will go into this meeting following a 3-2 Championship win vs Watford in their most recent outing.

In that game, Southampton managed 62% possession and 13 shots on goal with 4 of them on target. For Southampton, the scorers were Will Smallbone (1'), Ché Adams (20') and Flynn Downes (99'). Watford had 12 attempts at goal with 6 of them on target. Ryan Porteous (34') and Ismaël Koné (85') scored for Watford.

Proving their penchant for eventful matches, goals have been seen as many as 21 times in the previous six matches in which Southampton have taken to the pitch, making it a mean average of 3.5 goals for each fixture. Their opponents have got 9 of those goals. Let’s find out if that trend can be continued on into this next match.

Heading into this contest, Southampton are without a win away from home in their last 2 league matches.

🤜🤛 Head to head

A review of their prior head to head clashes stretching back to 31/01/2012 shows that Cardiff City have won 3 of them & Southampton 2, with the tally of drawn results standing at 1.

12 goals were produced between them throughout the course of those matches, with 5 for The Bluebirds and 7 being from The Saints. The average number of goals per game works out to 2.

The last league clash featuring these clubs was Championship match day 19 on 02/12/2023 when the final score was Southampton 2-0 Cardiff City.

That time, Southampton had 63% possession and 18 attempts at goal with 6 of them on target. The scorer was Adam Armstrong (11', 15').

For their opponents, Cardiff City had 10 attempts on goal with 3 on target.

The referee was James Bell.

📋 Team News: Cardiff City

There aren’t many selection issues, with just a single fitness concern for the Cardiff City boss Erol Bulut to be concerned with from an otherwise fully-primed set of players. Mark McGuinness (unknown injury) won’t play.

📰 Team News: Southampton

Southampton boss Russell Martin has some current player fitness concerns. Juan Larios (unknown injury) and Ross Stewart (Muscle injury) will miss out on this game.

💡 Prediction

In this match, Southampton will probably dominate possession and create several successful chances.

Conversely, Cardiff City won’t find it easy to find success in front of goal, although we do see them getting enough chances to score, too.

Accordingly, we see a controlled 1-3 margin for Southampton after 90 minutes.

Our expert partners are tipping over 1.5 goals for this match. Check out their VIP predictions here.

Andre Moura, 20:02 16/04/2024