Championship Championship
Regular Season - 10• 13 Oct 2026

Cardiff 5–1 Watford

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Match Recap

Jack Moylan tore Watford apart almost single-handedly, scoring twice before half-time as Cardiff piled forward in a Championship rout few saw coming. By the break, Cardiff already led 4-0, Moylan's two strikes bookended by Matthew Pollock's finish and Ollie Tanner's stoppage-time goal. Both sides arrived in miserable form, Cardiff 21st with seven points and Watford just one place better off on eight, each with only a single win in their last five games. None of that explained what happened once Moylan got going. Callum Robinson made it five with five minutes left before Hector Kyprianou pulled one back for Watford, their only reply in a match that was decided before half-time. Three of Cardiff's goals came inside six first-half minutes, but it's Moylan's second, curled in from range in the 35th minute to make it 2-0, that's worth going back to watch.

Match Statistics

Cardiff
VS
Watford
58% Ball Possession 42%
3.75 Expected goals (xG) 1.52
22 Total Shots 14
10 Shots on target 4
7 Shots off target 7
5 Blocked Shots 3
14 Shots inside box 10
8 Shots outside box 4
6 Corner Kicks 1
4 Offsides 4
12 Fouls 12
1 Yellow Cards 4
0 Red Cards 0
3 Goalkeeper Saves 6
494 Total passes 358
430 Accurate passes 282
12 Free Kicks 12

Lineups

Cardiff
B. Barry-Murphy 4-2-3-1
VS
Watford
A. Dionisi 4-2-3-1

Substitutes — Cardiff

30H. Tyrer 14D. Turnbull 23C. Scanlon 47C. Robinson 43P. Moreno 44R. Kpakio 2W. Fish 39I. Davies 50Charlie Holt

Substitutes — Watford

20M. Doumbia 15K. Diatta 3S. Coulibaly 17Iker Bravo 16M. Bola 26D. Bachmann 9L. Kjerrumgaard 29Branimir Mlačić 21Amin Nabizada