Cardiff host West Ham at Cardiff City Stadium in round 14 of the Championship. West Ham are the outsider, with a 47% winning probability in the odds bookmakers offered on this match.
Current Form - Cardiff
Cardiff are 17th on 14 points after 13 matches, with a record of three wins, five draws and five losses and a goal record of 19-20. Their last league match was a 0-3 defeat away to Wolves. Across their last five matches, Cardiff recorded two wins, one draw and two losses; they scored 1.8 goals per match in that period, compared with 1.5 across the season, while their goals conceded moved from 1.5 to 1.6.
Current Form - West Ham
West Ham sit eighth on 22 points, having won six, drawn four and lost three of their 13 matches, with 33 goals scored and 18 conceded. Their last league match ended in a 1-3 home loss to West Brom. Their record across the last five matches is two wins, one draw and two losses, while their scoring average was 2.2 in that spell against 2.5 for the season; the average of 1.4 goals conceded was unchanged.
Head-to-Head Record
Both teams scored in only one of their last five meetings. Cardiff won one and lost four of those meetings. The two teams meet for the first time since March 2019, when Cardiff beat West Ham 2-0 at home.
Key Players to Watch and Missing Players
For Cardiff, forward Yousef Salech has played 10 matches, scoring three goals and providing one assist, while forward Ollie Tanner has two goals and four assists. Midfielder Jack Moylan is the team's top scorer with six goals and has three assists, including three goals in two of his last four matches. Krystian Bielik and Callum Robinson are both doubts for this match.
West Ham's forward Jarrod Bowen leads the team with seven goals and five assists, ranking third in league scoring. Midfielders Divine Mukasa and Mohamadou Kante have three goals each, with one assist and two assists respectively, while Tomas Soucek has scored three goals in two of his last four matches. Defender Konstantinos Mavropanos is unavailable with a knee injury after scoring five goals this season.
Key Numbers
↔️ West Ham: Big chances 3.7 per match vs Cardiff: Big chances conceded 3.4 per match
Cardiff
➕ Expected goals (xG): 1.86 per match (4th best, league average 1.45)
➖ Big chance conversion: 23% (2nd worst, league average 35%)
➖ Shots on target conceded: 5.3 per match (4th worst, league average 4.3)
➖ Errors leading to shot: 0.85 per match (2nd worst, league average 0.45)
West Ham
➕ Headed goals: 0.46 per match (best in the league, league average 0.21)
➕ Through passes: 1.8 per match (best in the league, league average 0.8)
Match Notes
Cardiff's Gabriel Osho received one red card in the last 10 matches, with that dismissal coming three matches ago. Nathan Trott is at Cardiff as an academy product of West Ham; his West Ham spell included zero appearances, zero goals and zero seasons.
Betting Insights
The odds give a 68% probability to over 2.5 goals, while the probability for both teams to score is 67%.
Goals implied by the odds: 3.5
These figures come from the odds bookmakers offered on this match, read two days before kickoff.
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