Match Centre: Middlesbrough vs Cardiff City
Player of the match Alex Robertson 7.4
GolVolt rating 2.5GolVolt rating
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Key stats
Why this rating
Four pillars, each measured against the same league over the last 12 months.
Few chances.
- Dramaweight 50% Open to the end. Drama: 4.9 out of 10
- Heroesweight 20% Nobody stood out. Heroes: 0.9 out of 10
- Stakesweight 15% Relegation battle. Stakes: 6.5 out of 10
- Quality of playweight 15% Few chances. Quality of play: 0.7 out of 10
Match ECG
A spike = a twist. The shading = how open the result still was.
GolVolt rating 2.5more watchable than 25% 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
- 11' Goal: Emmanuel Latte Lathassist: Gannon-Doak1:0
- 21' Goal: Calum ChambersCardiff City1:1
- 30' Callum O'Dowdayellow card
- Half-time · 1:1
- 65' SubstitutionWillock for Tanner
- 67' SubstitutionJones for Burgzorg
- 75' Ben Gannon-Doakyellow card
- 75' SubstitutionGilbert for Azaz
- 76' Andy Rinomhotayellow card
- 79' 2 substitutionsBagan for AshfordMéïté for Colwill
- 80' Alex Robertsonyellow card
- 83' SubstitutionRalls for Robertson
- 84' SubstitutionEngel for Borges
- 89' Dan Barlaseryellow card
- Full-time · 1:1
Match stats
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Lineups and ratings
The highlighted rating is the player of the match.
Starting XIs · provider ratings
Middlesbrough
Cardiff City
Goalkeepers
Defenders
Midfielders
Forwards
Came on
Bench
Middlesbrough
- 38 Shea Connor GK —
- 5 Matt Clarke DEF —
- 25 George Edmundson DEF —
- 27 Lukas Engel DEF on
- 8 Riley McGree MID —
- 49 Law McCabe MID —
- 11 Isaiah Jones ATT on
- 14 Alex Gilbert ATT on
- 17 Micah Hamilton ATT —
Cardiff City
- 1 Ethan Horvath GK —
- 2 Will Fish DEF —
- 23 Joel Bagan DEF on
- 38 Perry Ng DEF —
- 44 Ronan Kpakio DEF —
- 8 Joe Ralls MID on
- 16 Chris Willock MID on
- 15 Wilfried Kanga ATT —
- 19 Yakou Méïté ATT on
Match sheet
- Stadium
- Riverside Stadium, Middlesbrough
Player ratings
Ratings from the data provider, scale 1–10.
- Player of the match · Cardiff City Alex Robertson
- 2. place · Middlesbrough Rav van den Berg
- 3. place · Middlesbrough Ben Gannon-Doak
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