Match Centre: Cardiff City vs Sunderland
Player of the match Jobe Bellingham 8.1
GolVolt rating 4.1GolVolt rating
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The match in 30 seconds
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5 → 22
Cardiff City drop 17 places in the table. Sunderland: 19 → 5.
Key stats
Why this rating
Four pillars, each measured against the same league over the last 12 months.
Settled by 87′.
- Dramaweight 50% Settled by 87′.Some excitement, but no big twists. Drama: 3.9 out of 10
- Heroesweight 20% O'Nien scored the winner.Solid performances, no single big hero. Heroes: 6.2 out of 10
- Stakesweight 15% It mattered for the table but settled nothing. Stakes: 5.6 out of 10
- Quality of playweight 15% An average number of chances. Quality of play: 4.5 out of 10
Match ECG
A spike = a twist. The shading = how open the result still was.
GolVolt rating 4.1more watchable than 41% of Championship matches
The GolVolt rating comes from four pillars — drama, heroes, stakes and quality of play — measured against this league's matches of the last 12 months (model nap-v2).
Similar matches
A similar story: twists, the finish, chances. Same league, last 12 months.
How the match went
2 goals2 cards
Counts cover only events captured in the retained timeline.
Timeline
- 18' Goal: Luke O'Nienassist: Cirkin0:1
- Half-time · 0:1
- 51' Trai Humeyellow card
- 62' SubstitutionMéïté for Tanner
- 68' SubstitutionKanga for Robinson
- 72' SubstitutionRusyn for Mayenda
- 77' SubstitutionRigg for Roberts
- 78' 2 substitutionsColwill for WillockTurnbull for Ralls
- 81' Aji Aleseyellow card
- 89' Goal: Jack Clarkeassist: Bellingham0:2
- 90' SubstitutionMundle for Clarke
- Full-time · 0:2
Match stats
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Lineups and ratings
The highlighted rating is the player of the match.
Starting XIs · provider ratings
Cardiff City
Sunderland
Goalkeepers
Defenders
Midfielders
Forwards
Came on
Bench
Cardiff City
- 21 Jak Alnwick GK —
- 23 Joel Bagan DEF —
- 31 Malachi Fagan-Walcott DEF —
- 14 David Turnbull MID on
- 18 Alex Robertson MID —
- 27 Rubin Colwill MID on
- 35 Andy Rinomhota MID —
- 15 Wilfried Kanga ATT on
- 19 Yakou Méïté ATT on
Sunderland
- 21 Simon Moore GK —
- 25 Nectarios Triantis DEF —
- 41 Zak Johnson DEF —
- 11 Chris Rigg MID on
- 17 Abdoullah Ba MID —
- 22 Adil Aouchiche MID —
- 39 Pierre Ekwah MID —
- 14 Romaine Mundle ATT on
- 15 Nazariy Rusyn ATT on
Match sheet
- Stadium
- Cardiff City Stadium, Cardiff
Player ratings
Ratings from the data provider, scale 1–10.
- Player of the match · Sunderland Jobe Bellingham
- 2. place · Sunderland Luke O'Nien
- 3. place · Sunderland Jack Clarke
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