Cardiff City vs Portsmouth betting tip 2024/2025 - Picks and Predictions for the Championship match on October 22nd, 2024

Cardiff City will be playing against Portsmouth in a Championship football match scheduled to take place on Tuesday, October 22nd, 2024, at 18:45h (UTC), in England, check the Cardiff City vs Portsmouth betting tip 2024/2025 to win with your bets.

Stadium and City where Cardiff City vs Portsmouth will occur

The game will be played in the small Cardiff City Stadium stadium, in the city of Cardiff, with a capacity for 26828 spectators, who hope to help the team to surprise in this match.

Where to follow the live game

You can follow the match live on Betarena, with access to all the information to help you with your sports betting, including statistics, events and odds.

Introduction to the Cardiff City vs Portsmouth betting tip 2024/2025

The Championship has had fewer goals than the previous season. Last season the tournament had an average of 2.67 goals scored per match, while now the competition has an average of 2.5 goals per match played.

Cardiff City last match

Cardiff City comes from a draw in the last match played. On that occasion the opponent was Bristol City, in a match valid for Championship, and the match ended 1-1. Coach Ö. Riza's team lined up with this formation: 4-2-3-1.

The other team was the big favorite for this match, therefore the draw (odd 4.00) ended up being a good result.

Despite the team's less-than-exciting average performance, Ollie Tanner is certainly one of the players on the roster to watch for the future. On the field he showed a good physical presence and good footwork, proving to be crucial to Cardiff City game.

Portsmouth last match

On the other hand, the visiting team arrives at this match after a draw in the last round. In a dispute valid for Championship, Portsmouth, who used a 4-2-3-1 formation, faced the Oxford United team with a final score of 1-1.

In the previous analysis the draw was among the logical results of this match, especially because it was expected a fairly even game between both teams and had odds around 3.40.

Cardiff City vs Portsmouth h2h

Portsmouth was in 2nd place when they last played Cardiff City who was 1st place in Carabao Cup. Portsmouth played using the 4-4-2 formation while Cardiff City responded with a 4-2-3-1 arrangement.

The most recent precedent between these two clubs was in 09-08-2022, in the 2022/2023 season of the Carabao Cup, which ended with a 0-3 win for Portsmouth.

The Cardiff City team in their last five matches has produced solid performances, while Portsmouth has been more irregular.

This game will have O. Langford fully in charge on the pitch while M. Stevens alongside C. Brown will be supporting from the sideline.

Cardiff City

Championship leaderboard now

With 5 points won, Cardiff City is in 24th place on the leaderboard, which leaves the team in the Relegation zone. The team's campaign so far is 1 win against 6 losses, plus 2 draws.

The team has no advantage against the Portsmouth team who holds the 23rd place in the 11th round.

Cardiff City analysis

After round number 10 in Championship, Cardiff City has 4 goals scored and 18 conceded.

Recent performances have highlighted that Cardiff City is having trouble generating goals, with a low number of goals for and a high number of failed to score matches. This suggests that the team is struggling to create quality chances and convert them into goals, indicating the need for improvement in their attacking play.

The average number of shots towards goal for Cardiff City is not among the best, with only 3.33 a match. This is a good indicator that the team does not have a very good scoring average, and does not engage the opposing goalkeepers too much.

Cardiff City has a ball possession average of 48.22% in the league. Therefore, they are not the team that proposes the game, which can be a problem for this match. Therefore, fans hope the team to have more possession in this Cardiff City vs Portsmouth 2024/2025 match and, especially, to convert it into goals.

Best goalscorer from Cardiff City

If we want to highlight a player from the team's attack at this stage, we have to name Callum Robinson. The Attacker scored 2 goals in the current season, helping Cardiff City to achieve victory in several disputes.

Portsmouth

Championship leaderboard now

With 5 points won, Portsmouth is in 23rd place on the leaderboard, which leaves the team in the Relegation zone. The team's campaign so far is 0 wins against 4 losses, plus 5 draws.

Which means that the team is over Cardiff City team who is in the position 24 in the 11th round but with the same number of points.

Portsmouth analysis

Currently, in the Championship, Portsmouth sums 9 goals for and a total of 20 goals against, after 10 rounds played.

The team has a relatively low scoring streak, the average goals scored does not exceed 1 per game, and this may mean that the result of the next away match may not be positive.

Portsmouth is a more offensive team than Cardiff City, having 800 attacks vs. 797 from Cardiff City, having scored 9 times, in comparison, Cardiff City converted into goal 4 times.

Best goalscorer from Portsmouth

When we analyze the team's attack so far, the competition's performance at the individual level Callum Lang is the player to highlight. Helping Portsmouth with 3 goals scored this season, the Attacker has been instrumental in achieving positive outcomes.

It should also be noted that 1 of the goals scored by the player were from the penalty spot.

For bettors some entries may be interesting for this game, namely:

Goals Top Betting Tips

75-90 minutes into the game is a good time to bet with most goals being made in this period.

Taking into consideration that Portsmouth scores an average of 1.75 goals per match when playing away, we should consider the under 2.5 betting market, especially because this team usually does not concede goals when playing out of their stadium.

At the bookmaker Bet365, the market of Total Goals Under 2.5 is with great odds.

Corners Top Betting Tips

One should consider that the combined number of corners of both teams will give an average of 5.16 corners per game if one would like to have good betting results.

Cards Top Betting Tips

Highly disciplined, the teams have an average of only 4.1 yellow cards per match, when added together. In other words, the 'Under 4.5 cards' option looks like a great alternative for bettors.

This is a match with several good betting entries to have some return on sports betting.

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