Match Centre: Cardiff City vs Middlesbrough
Player of the match Matt Clarke 8.7
GolVolt rating 4.6GolVolt rating
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The match in 30 seconds
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12 → 6
Middlesbrough climb 6 places in the table. Cardiff City stay in place 24.
Key stats
Why this rating
Four pillars, each measured against the same league over the last 12 months.
Clarke scored the winner.
- Dramaweight 50% Settled by 82′.Some excitement, but no big twists. Drama: 4.8 out of 10
- Heroesweight 20% Clarke scored the winner.Someone played a match to remember. Heroes: 7.3 out of 10
- Stakesweight 15% Not much was at stake yet. Stakes: 2.6 out of 10
- Quality of playweight 15% An average number of chances. Quality of play: 4.3 out of 10
Match ECG
A spike = a twist. The shading = how open the result still was.
GolVolt rating 4.6more watchable than 46% 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 goals1 card
Counts cover only events captured in the retained timeline.
Timeline
- 39' Jesper Dalandyellow card
- 43' SubstitutionGoutas for Daland
- Half-time · 0:0
- 46' SubstitutionTanner for Méïté
- 55' Goal: Matt Clarkeassist: Azaz0:1
- 62' 2 substitutionsColwill for RobertsonEl Ghazi for Willock
- 70' 2 substitutionsGilbert for ConwayLath for Burgzorg
- 73' SubstitutionRobinson for Kanga
- 82' Goal: Aaron James Ramseyown goal0:2
- 90' 2 substitutionsHamilton for AzazSimpson for Jones
- Full-time · 0:2
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Lineups and ratings
The highlighted rating is the player of the match.
Starting XIs · provider ratings
Cardiff City
Middlesbrough
Goalkeepers
Defenders
Midfielders
Forwards
Came on
Bench
Cardiff City
- 21 Jak Alnwick GK —
- 4 Dimitrios Goutas DEF on
- 23 Joel Bagan DEF —
- 27 Rubin Colwill MID on
- 35 Andy Rinomhota MID —
- 45 Cian Ashford MID —
- 20 Anwar El Ghazi ATT on
- 32 Ollie Tanner ATT on
- 47 Callum Robinson ATT on
Middlesbrough
- 31 Sol Brynn GK —
- 41 Harley Hunt DEF —
- 44 Nathan Simpson DEF on
- 4 Dan Barlaser MID —
- 49 Law McCabe MID —
- 9 Emmanuel Latte Lath ATT on
- 14 Alex Gilbert ATT on
- 17 Micah Hamilton ATT on
- 43 Charlie Lennon ATT —
Match sheet
- Stadium
- Cardiff City Stadium, Cardiff
Player ratings
Ratings from the data provider, scale 1–10.
- Player of the match · Middlesbrough Matt Clarke
- 2. place · Middlesbrough Anfernee Dijksteel
- 3. place · Middlesbrough Luke Ayling
Cardiff City
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