Cardiff vs West Brom prediction: ENGLAND: Championship betting tips on match 2023-11-27 19:45.
In remarkable scenes, Cardiff City scored twice beyond the 95th minute to come from 1-0 down at Preston North End on Saturday and snatch all three points. The win means the Welsh outfit are just one point off the Championship play-off spots heading into the midweek round. Mentally, it should also help them bounce back from the hurt caused by being on the wrong end of a dramatic turnaround in their last home match, when a 2-1 lead against Norwich City turned into a painful 3-2 defeat.
As it happens, only three teams in England’s second tier have dropped more points from winning positions than the Bluebirds’ ten so far this season. Manager Erol Bulut will therefore be hoping his men avoid adding to that tally and make a quicker start than usual on their own patch, as only two of their 15 home league goals this term were scored inside the opening half-hour.
After an impressive 2-0 victory over second-placed Ipswich Town, West Bromwich Albion continue to find themselves two points ahead of their upcoming opponents and should feel quietly confident about maintaining or even increasing that gap after taking points from each of the last four H2Hs (W1, D3). Most notably, that run which includes a 4-0 triumph at the Cardiff City Stadium in September 2021.
Four wins in five will also have the Baggies believing that they can leapfrog Southampton and Leeds United sooner rather than later, while their current total of 16 second half goals scored in this league campaign is second only to Ipswich and Championship leaders Leicester City. Strangely, they have tended to struggle in the last 15 minutes of each half, netting just twice overall during those periods – the lowest figure in the division by a distance.
Players to watch: With Karlan Grant ineligible to face his parent club, team-mate Callum Robinson will relish the opportunity to face his old employers, with all four of the attacker’s goal involvements for Cardiff so far in 2023/24 having come in the first half. Grady Diangana got West Brom’s second against Ipswich, his fifth goal contribution (G3, A2) in as many Championship games.
Hot stat: In the last 20 H2H meetings in which at least one goal was scored, the side that opened the scoring avoided defeat on every occasion (W12, D8).