📏 Form Guide

Cardiff City

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

In that game, Cardiff City managed 63% possession and 7 attempts at goal with 4 on target. The only player on the scoresheet for Cardiff City was Yakou Meïté (24'). For their opponents, Millwall got 15 shots at goal with 7 of them 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 go into this match after a 3-0 Championship win with the downing of Preston North End in their previous fixture.

In that game, Southampton had 77% possession and 23 attempts at goal with 6 of them on target. For Southampton, the goals were scored by Ché Adams (19', 29') and Stuart Armstrong (33'). At the other end, Preston North End had 1 shots at goal with 1 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.

👥 Head to head

An examination of their most recent head to head meetings going back to 31/01/2012 shows that Cardiff City have won 3 of these games & Southampton 2, with the number of drawn results standing at 1.

An aggregate of 12 goals were produced between them in these games, with 5 for The Bluebirds and 7 being from The Saints. That is an average goals per game value of 2.

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

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

For their opponents, Cardiff City got 10 shots on goal with 3 of them on target.

The match was refereed by James Bell.

ℹ️ Team News: Cardiff City

It’s a low absenteeism rate, with just a single fitness concern for the Cardiff City manager Erol Bulut to be concerned about thanks to an otherwise robust group. Mark McGuinness (unknown injury) is out of contention.

In our view, The Bluebirds may well employ a 4-2-3-1 formation in the match with Ethan Horvath, Perry Ng, Nathaniel Phillips, Dimitrios Goutas, Jamilu Collins, Joe Ralls, Ryan Wintle, Josh Bowler, Rubin Colwill, Karlan Grant and Famara Diedhiou.

🗞️ Team News: Southampton

Southampton boss Russell Martin has to choose a team with limited availability. Juan Larios (unknown injury), Ross Stewart (Muscle injury) and Gavin Bazunu (Achilles tendon rupture) won’t be making appearances.

From our viewpoint, The Saints appear most likely to utilise a 4-3-3 lineup, settling for 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.

💭 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, 13:06 20/04/2024