Cardiff City will be hosting away team Southampton at Cardiff City Stadium in the Championship clash on Saturday.
For all of our match predictions, pre-game poll and statistics for Cardiff City v Southampton, scroll down - plus the latest match odds.
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Form Guide
Cardiff City
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Cardiff City will be wanting a better result here following a 3-1 Championship loss in their previous game against Millwall.
In that match, Cardiff City managed 63% possession and 7 shots at goal with 4 of them on target. The scorer for Cardiff City was Yakou Meïté (24'). Millwall had 15 shots on goal with 7 on target. Michael Obafemi (9'), Jake Cooper (45') and Duncan Watmore (93') scored for Millwall.
It has been a rare occasion in recent games that Cardiff City have kept a clean sheet. In fact, Cardiff City have failed to prevent opponents from scoring in 5 of their previous 6 matches, shipping 11 goals along the way. Nonetheless, we must now wait to see whether such a trend might continue on here in this game.
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 clash following a 3-0 Championship win over Preston North End in their previous fixture.
In that game, Southampton managed 77% possession and 23 shots on goal with 6 of them on target. For Southampton, the goalscorers were Ché Adams (19', 29') and Stuart Armstrong (33'). At the other end, Preston North End got 1 shots on goal with 1 of them on target.
Throughout their six previous matches, Russell Martin's Southampton have seen their goal attempts be successful 11 times therefore earning them a goals scored per game average of 1.83.
Heading into this contest, Southampton are without a win away from home in their last 2 league matches.
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Head to head
An examination of their most recent head to head clashes going back to 31/01/2012 tells us that Cardiff City have won 3 of these & Southampton 2, with the tally of drawn matches standing at 1.
In all, 12 goals were produced between them throughout the course of those matches, with 5 for The Bluebirds and 7 created by The Saints. That’s an average goals per game figure of 2.
The last league clash featuring these sides was Championship match day 19 on 02/12/2023 when the final score was Southampton 2-0 Cardiff City.
That day, Southampton had 63% possession and 18 shots on goal with 6 of them on target. The scorer was Adam Armstrong (11', 15').
On the other side, Cardiff City had 10 attempts at goal with 3 of them on target.
The match was refereed by James Bell.
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Team News: Cardiff City
It doesn’t get much better regarding selection, with just a single fitness concern for the Cardiff City gaffer Erol Bulut to be concerned about thanks to an almost full-strength group. Mark McGuinness (unknown injury) will miss out.
It looks as if The Bluebirds may well go for a 4-2-3-1 system for this one, beginning the first half with Ethan Horvath, Perry Ng, Nathaniel Phillips, Dimitrios Goutas, Jamilu Collins, Joe Ralls, Ryan Wintle, Josh Bowler, Rubin Colwill, Karlan Grant and Famara Diedhiou.
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Team News: Southampton
Southampton boss Russell Martin has to currently contend with reduced team options. Juan Larios (unknown injury) and Ross Stewart (Muscle injury) will miss out on this game.
From our viewpoint, The Saints appear most likely to utilise a 4-3-3 lineup, starting the game with Alex McCarthy, Kyle Walker-Peters, T. Harwood-Bellis, Jan Bednarek, Ryan Manning, Joe Aribo, Flynn Downes, Stuart Armstrong, David Brooks, Che Adams and Adam Armstrong.
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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,
07:06 19/04/2024
⚽️ Team Focus:
Cardiff City
Formed: 1899
Stadium: Cardiff City Stadium (33,316)
Captain: Joe Ralls
Chairman: Mehmet Dalman
Manager: Erol Bulut
Competitions: Championship position 11
🔑 Key Man: Karlan Ahearne-Grant
Mostly taking to the field in the Striker position, Karlan Ahearne-Grant was born in Greenwich, England. After making a first senior appearance for Charlton Athletic in the 2014 - 2015 season, the skilful Forward has struck 6 league goals in the Championship 2023 - 2024 season so far in a total of 39 appearances.