PREMIER LEAGUE: We preview Friday’s Premier League game between CARDIFF v WOLVES with extended stats and a recommended BETDAQ bet.
CARDIFF V WOLVERHAMPTON
8pm For the first time in a while we have Friday Night Football to enjoy as Cardiff welcome Wolves. It wasn’t so long ago that this fixture took place in the Championship when Wolves came out 1-0 winners but not without a huge amount of drama. Wolves have certainly adjusted to life in the Premier League well while Cardiff are battling hard to stay up.
We have a pretty open market with the away side the clear favourites. The match odds at the time of writing currently trade; Cardiff 3.85, Wolverhampton 2.26 and the draw is 3.25. Cardiff have certainly performed better in front of their own fans compared to away and they will be hoping that solid home form can keep them up this season.
Wolves obviously started the season well however they have had a poor run of late and dropped into the bottom half of their table. They have had to play Arsenal and Spurs in their last five games; however they come here without a win in five and the 2.26 on them looks very short. You can forgive them not beating Arsenal or Spurs – indeed they performed well against both – however they lost their last game at home to Huddersfield 2-0 and have lost to Brighton and Watford recently too.
We expect a close game here with a solid Cardiff performance in front of their home fans. The 2.26 on Wolves looks very short and a cracking value lay – we expect the game to be a lot closer than those odds suggest.
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MATCH STATS
- This is the first top-flight meeting between Cardiff City and Wolves since February 1962, a 3-2 win for Wolves at Ninian Park.
- None of the last eight league meetings between Cardiff and Wolves in Cardiff have ended as draws – both sides have won four games apiece in that time.
- Cardiff and Wolves met on Friday at the Cardiff City Stadium in the Championship last season – a 1-0 win for Wolves in April, with the Bluebirds missing two 90 th minute penalties.
- Wolves have won all four of their league matches played on Friday under manager Nuno Espirito Santo – all four were in the Championship last season.
- Cardiff haven’t won consecutive top-flight home games in the same season since their final two matches of the 1961-62 campaign.
- After two consecutive 0-0 draws in August, Cardiff have neither drawn or kept a clean sheet in any of their last 10 Premier League games (W2 D0 L8).
- Wolves are winless in five Premier League games (D1 L4) failing to score on three occasions in that run.
- The away team hasn’t won any of the last 20 Premier League meetings between two promoted sides (D7 L13), since Leicester won 1-0 at Burnley in April 2015.
- Cardiff have scored the first goal on a league-low one occasion in the Premier League this season, in a game they went on to lose anyway (1-4 vs Chelsea in September).
- Wolves’ Rúben Neves scored the winner in this exact fixture in the Championship last season – his last away league goal for the club to date.
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