Match Centre: Portsmouth vs Cardiff City
Player of the match Callum O'Dowda 8.4
GolVolt rating 7.0GolVolt rating
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The match in 30 seconds
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20 → 18
Portsmouth climb 2 places in the table. Cardiff City: 19 → 20.
Key stats
Why this rating
Four pillars, each measured against the same league over the last 12 months.
Plenty of chances, relegation battle.
- Dramaweight 50% Settled by 87′.Some excitement, but no big twists. Drama: 4.0 out of 10
- Heroesweight 20% Someone played a match to remember. Heroes: 8.4 out of 10
- Stakesweight 15% Relegation battle. Stakes: 8.2 out of 10
- Quality of playweight 15% Plenty of chances. Quality of play: 9.7 out of 10
Match ECG
A spike = a twist. The shading = how open the result still was.
GolVolt rating 7.0more watchable than 70% 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
3 goals4 cards
Counts cover only events captured in the retained timeline.
Timeline
- 9' Goal: Colby Bishopassist: Murphy1:0
- 17' Goal: Conor Shaughnessyassist: Murphy2:0
- 22' Goal: Callum O'Dowdaassist: Rinomhota2:1
- Half-time · 2:1
- 46' SubstitutionDevlin for Swanson
- 60' 2 substitutionsAlves for BaganColwill for Ralls
- 60' SubstitutionMatthews for Shaughnessy
- 67' 2 substitutionsAouchiche for RitchiePack for Hayden
- 73' SubstitutionSalech for Mannsverk
- 75' Callum Langyellow card
- 76' Dimitrios Goutasyellow card
- 82' 2 substitutionsEl Ghazi for AshfordNg for Rinomhota
- 84' SubstitutionBramall for Lang
- 90+2' Connor Ogilvieyellow card
- 90+5' Yousef Salechyellow card
- Full-time · 2:1
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Lineups and ratings
The highlighted rating is the player of the match.
Starting XIs · provider ratings
Portsmouth
Cardiff City
Goalkeepers
Defenders
Midfielders
Forwards
Came on
Bench
Portsmouth
- 31 Jordan Archer GK —
- 18 Cohen Bramall DEF on
- 44 Hayden Matthews DEF on
- 7 Marlon Pack MID on
- 17 Adil Aouchiche MID on
- 24 Terry Devlin MID on
- 11 Mark O'Mahony ATT —
- 14 Kaide Gordon ATT —
- 15 Christian Saydee ATT —
Cardiff City
- 1 Ethan Horvath GK —
- 38 Perry Ng DEF on
- 49 Luey Giles DEF —
- 16 Chris Willock MID —
- 27 Rubin Colwill MID on
- 29 Will Alves MID on
- 20 Anwar El Ghazi ATT on
- 22 Yousef Salech ATT on
- 31 Roko Simic ATT —
Match sheet
- Stadium
- Fratton Park, Portsmouth
Player ratings
Ratings from the data provider, scale 1–10.
- Player of the match · Cardiff City Callum O'Dowda
- 2. place · Cardiff City Dimitrios Goutas
- 3. place · Portsmouth Josh Murphy
Portsmouth
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