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Match report
English Footie
Championship: Round 8 (setup 5, season 18)
Cardiff City
v.
Wigan Athletic
Formation:
4-3-3
League position:
14
Overall form:
Home form:
VICENTE GUAITA Panadero61Igor AKINFEEV
Formation:
4-3-3
League position:
2
Overall form:
Home form:
MÁRIO Figueira FERNANDES27Reece BURKE
Yaroslav RAKITSKYI38Holger BADSTUBER
Ivan RAKITIC847Luka MODRIC
José 'Martín' CÁCERES Silva5Sergei IGNASHEVICH
Souleymane BAMBA66Curtis NELSON
Jermaine PENNANT67Eduardo Antonio SALVIO
José Antonio REYES Calderón8Osvaldo 'Nicolás' Fabián GAITÁN
Tim MATAVZ797Mario GOMEZ
Scott BROWN710Will GRIGG
Idriss SAADI11Jürgen LOCADIA
Manager
Bruno ECUÉLÉ MANGA12Nathan BYRNE
David CORNELL13Cristopher Benjamín TOSELLI Ríos
Junior HOILETT14Nick POWELL
Joe RALLS15Kaiyne WOOLERY
Robbie KEANE16Sam COSGROVE

Cardiff City 0 Wigan Athletic 1
(Half-time: 0-0, Attendance: 21,260, Stadium: Cardiff City Stadium, Referee: Dean WHITESTONE 7)
Scorers48 Modric
Substitutions
Sendings off
Bookings
2Corners3
9Fouls7
0Offsides0
8Shots on3
5Shots off7
13Total shots10
8Shots saved1
50%Possession50%
Man of the match: Holger BADSTUBER
6A great save prevented REYES from scoring a lovely goal.
7A cross from RAKITIC left BROWN in plenty of space but he snapped at his shot.
8MATAVZ waltzed past MODRIC and poked a poor shot well wide.
14GOMEZ touched the ball through a crowd of players but VICENTE GUAITA was a match for it as he dived to his left.
17LOCADIA worked the ball to MODRIC, GAITÁN gathered his cross and hoofed the ball within easy reach of the 'keeper.
20The Wigan Athletic 'keeper saved a curling effort from REYES.
20A penalty box scramble resulted in GAITÁN cracking a low shot wide.
27REYES's shot was well held by AKINFEEV.
32SALVIO flicked a right foot shot just wide from thirty yards out.
35A header from REYES was headed off the line by NELSON.
39A header by REYES at the far post was easily collected by AKINFEEV.
43GAITÁN nodded the ball wide of the lefthand post from just outside the area.
 
46A corner was collected by GAITÁN who turned the ball over.
48GOAL!! A nice run by GRIGG on the left was capped by a wonderful cross which MODRIC touched in at the near post. (1-0 Wigan Athletic)
56GAITÁN was put clear by NELSON and he dummied the 'keeper but struck his shot over.
71MATAVZ shot over.
72A thirty yard shot from SAADI caused AKINFEEV little difficulty.
73MODRIC made space on the left and pulled the ball to SALVIO who fired the ball wide.
77A lovely effort from SAADI scraped the outside of the lefthand post.
79GAITÁN fluffed a simple chance.
80A strike from RAKITIC held no problem for AKINFEEV.
89The hapless 'keeper stared in disbelief as a backpass from GAITÁN fell just over.
90+1MATAVZ's header was well saved by AKINFEEV.