Match Centre: Cardiff City vs Portsmouth
Player of the match Dimitrios Goutas 8.4
GolVolt rating 2.9GolVolt rating
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The match in 30 seconds
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22 → 19
Cardiff City climb 3 places in the table. Portsmouth stay in place 23.
Key stats
Why this rating
Four pillars, each measured against the same league over the last 12 months.
Settled by 13′.
- Dramaweight 50% Settled by 13′.The result was clear early — little to hold on for. Drama: 0.9 out of 10
- Heroesweight 20% Solid performances, no single big hero. Heroes: 5.1 out of 10
- Stakesweight 15% It mattered for the table but settled nothing. Stakes: 5.4 out of 10
- Quality of playweight 15% Plenty of chances. Quality of play: 9.2 out of 10
Match ECG
A spike = a twist. The shading = how open the result still was.
GolVolt rating 2.9more watchable than 29% 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 goals5 cards
Counts cover only events captured in the retained timeline.
Timeline
- 6' Goal: Regan PooleCardiff City1:0
- 13' Goal: Callum Robinsonassist: Goutas2:0
- 15' SubstitutionYengi for Lane
- 17' Calum Chambersyellow card
- 23' Portsmouthyellow card
- 23' Jordan Williamsyellow card
- 31' SubstitutionArcher for Schmid
- Half-time · 2:0
- 46' 2 substitutionsSaydee for SørensenDevlin for Williams
- 64' Freddie Pottsyellow card
- 66' 2 substitutionsRinomhota for RobertsonSiopis for Turnbull
- 77' SubstitutionRitchie for Murphy
- 78' 2 substitutionsWillock for El GhaziMéïté for Tanner
- 79' Andy Rinomhotayellow card
- 85' SubstitutionKanga for Robinson
- Full-time · 2:0
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Lineups and ratings
The highlighted rating is the player of the match.
Starting XIs · provider ratings
Cardiff City
Portsmouth
Goalkeepers
Defenders
Midfielders
Forwards
Came on
Bench
Cardiff City
- 1 Ethan Horvath GK —
- 2 Will Fish DEF —
- 5 Jesper Daland DEF —
- 23 Joel Bagan DEF —
- 3 Manolis Siopis MID on
- 16 Chris Willock MID on
- 35 Andy Rinomhota MID on
- 15 Wilfried Kanga ATT on
- 19 Yakou Méïté ATT on
Portsmouth
- 31 Jordan Archer GK on
- 4 Ryley Towler DEF —
- 21 Andre Dozzell MID —
- 24 Terry Devlin MID on
- 25 Abdoulaye Kamara MID —
- 30 Matt Ritchie MID on
- 10 Kusini Yengi ATT on
- 11 Mark O'Mahony ATT —
- 15 Christian Saydee ATT on
Match sheet
- Stadium
- Cardiff City Stadium, Cardiff
Player ratings
Ratings from the data provider, scale 1–10.
- Player of the match · Cardiff City Dimitrios Goutas
- 2. place · Portsmouth Jordan Archer
- 3. place · Cardiff City Alex Robertson
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