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Commentary
GÖTZE headed over.
A good effort from OSCAR scraped the outside of the righthand post.
A corner fell to BACUNA who touched an effort over.
18¹OSCAR waltzed round HOILETT and rifled a poor shot into the crowd.
22¹BENNETT was put clear by PELTIER and he nutmegged the WBA 'keeper but thrust his shot just beyond the near post.
23¹An inswinging corner was fired into the arms of the Cardiff City 'keeper by GÖTZE.
28¹A mix up in the WBA defence enabled HOILETT to hammer the ball inches over.
29¹A shot from HOILETT was kicked off the line by HEGAZY.
41¹HOILETT floated the ball to MADINE who touched it wide.
42¹GOAL!! A mishit backpass by HEGAZY enabled MADINE to nip in and drill the ball past the WBA 'keeper. (1-0 Cardiff City)
44¹HOILETT shot over.
SAKO beat BENNETT and drilled the ball to GÖTZE who pulled his effort wide.
OSCAR rasped the ball through a ruck of players but the 'keeper was a match for it as he dived to his left.
The 'keeper stopped a refined shot from AUSTIN.
CAMARASA scuffed a simple chance.
14²GOAL!! A cross from PELTIER was touched away by OSCAR only for MURPHY to tap the ball back into the box for HOILETT to force into the net. (2-0 Cardiff City)
18²A twenty-five yard shot from HOILETT caused the 'keeper little difficulty.
19²GOAL!! A strike from MORRISON which SMITHIES was able to palm clear seemed to have crossed the line and the ref awarded the goal. (2-1 Cardiff City)
28²A clumsy foul on SAKO by BACUNA results in a booking.
30²GOAL!! A quick free-kick allowed CAMARASA to touch the ball to MURPHY who drilled a deadly shot into the back of the net. (3-1 Cardiff City)
31²GOAL!! A deep goal-kick from ADARABIOYO caught the Cardiff City defence napping and OSCAR nipped in to easily score. (3-2 Cardiff City)
32²The motionless WBA 'keeper stared in disbelief as a backpass from MORRISON fell just over.
36²A cross from MURPHY left HOILETT in plenty of space but he snapped at his shot.
40²OSCAR made space on the left and pulled the ball to BOILESEN who fired the ball wide.
42²BACUNA beat two WBA players and thundered a great chance wide.

 
Cardiff City
 
League position: 13
Home league form: WLOX
Overall league form: LWOWLLXO
Formation: 4-3-3
Line-ups
Alex SMITHIES1Jonathan BOND
(c)Bruno ECUÉLÉ MANGA2Tosin ADARABIOYO
Joe BENNETT3Nicolai BOILESEN
Víctor CAMARASA4Bakary SAKO
Will VAULKS5Ahmed HEGAZY
Lee PELTIER6Kieran GIBBS
Leandro BACUNA7James MORRISON
Junior HOILETT8OSCAR dos Santos
(p)Gary MADINE9Mario GÖTZE(c,p)
(f)Josh MURPHY10Charlie AUSTIN(f)
Danny WARD11Matt PHILLIPS
Manager
Nathaniel MENDEZ-LAING  12  Kenneth ZOHORE
Callum PATERSON  13  Gareth BARRY
Ashley RICHARDS  14  Morgan ROGERS
Lee TOMLIN15  Rekeem HARPER
Craig NOONE16  Kyle EDWARDS
 
WBA
 
League position: 12
Away league form: XLLW
Overall league form: XXLWWLXL
Formation: 4-3-3

Statistics
Cardiff City 3 WBA 2
(Half-time: 1-0, Attendance: 15,437, Stadium: Cardiff City Stadium, Referee: Grant Hegley 5½)

Madine 42¹, Hoilett 14², Murphy 30²
Scorers
Substitutions
Sent off
Bookings
Corners
Fouls
Offsides
Shots on
Shots off
Total shots
Shots saved
Possession
Morrison 19², Oscar 31²
MadineóNoone 4², BennettóTomlin 16² 
  
Bacuna 28² 
32
48
13
55
95
1410
23
44%56%
Man of the match: Oscar Dos Santos