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Commentary
GERVINHO made space on the right and dragged the ball to SQUILLACI who fired the ball wide.
The Cardiff City 'keeper did well to hold onto an amazing shot from PAVLYUCHENKO.
GOAL!! A curling inswinging corner was forced in at the far post by BERBATOV. (1-0 Cardiff City)
GOAL!! Some fine work by BUONANOTTE on the left, left BERBATOV yards clear, and he stepped inside the Middlesbrough 'keeper and fired the ball home. (2-0 Cardiff City)
A great effort from BAROS scraped the outside of the righthand post.
BUONANOTTE headed inches wide.
20¹HOLEBAS fluffed an easy chance.
21¹GERVINHO stormed through the Middlesbrough defence but shot straight at the Middlesbrough 'keeper.
25¹DOUMBIA worked the ball to MASON, FONT latched onto his pass and headed the ball within easy reach of USTARI.
28¹BERBATOV's shot beat the Middlesbrough 'keeper but rebounded off the Middlesbrough upright.
33¹SON placed a right foot shot just wide from twenty-five yards out.
34¹A pin-point pass bobbled toward SON and his looping shot flew narrowly wide.
36¹BAROS beat PAVLYUCHENKO and hit the ball to BUONANOTTE who toe-poked his effort wide.
37¹SON rattled an easy chance past the near post.
38¹SALISBURY cautions REACH for dangerous play against BODMER.
DOUMBIA brought the ball round SQUILLACI and stroked a tame shot over.
USTARI dived to his left to save a lovely shot from Middlesbrough's REACH.
10²GOAL!! DOUMBIA rattled a penalty past USTARI after SQUILLACI had handled just inside the area. (2-1 Cardiff City)
40²A weak strike from BERBATOV rolled agonisingly wide.
41²KRUL was able to claw away a tame header from BAROS.
45²GOAL!! A quick-witted BERBATOV pounced on a loose ball on the edge of the area and made no mistake. (3-1 Cardiff City)
47²The motionless KRUL was all agog as a backpass from HOLEBAS dropped just over.

 
Cardiff City
 
League position: 7
Home league form: WLLL
Overall league form: XWLXLLWL
Formation: 4-3-3
Line-ups
Óscar USTARI1Tim KRUL
(c)Sébastien SQUILLACI2Cristian ZACCARDO
Rafael MARQUEZ3José HOLEBAS
Ibrahim AFELLAY4Ryan MASON
Mathieu BODMER5Anatoliy TYMOSCHUK(c)
Diego BUONANOTTE6Jack HOBBS
Matthew KENNEDY7Héctor FONT
SON Heung-min8Adam REACH
(p)Dimitar BERBATOV9Seydou DOUMBIA(p)
(f)Milan BAROS10Roman PAVLYUCHENKO(f)
GERVINHO11Matty FRYATT
Manager
Craig NOONE  12  Leon KNIGHT
RICARDO Jorge BATISTA  13  Andreas ISAKSSON
Kenneth ZOHORE  14  Leon CLARKE
Aron GUNNARSSON  15  Morgan DE SANCTIS
Stuart O'KEEFE  16  Rey VOLPATO
 
Middlesbrough
 
League position: 21
Away league form: LLLL
Overall league form: WLLLXLOL
Formation: 4-3-3

Statistics
Cardiff City 3 Middlesbrough 1
(Half-time: 2-0, Attendance: 15,494, Stadium: Cardiff City Stadium, Referee: Graham Salisbury 6)

Berbatov 5¹, Berbatov 6¹, Berbatov 45²
Scorers
Substitutions
Sent off
Bookings
Corners
Fouls
Offsides
Shots on
Shots off
Total shots
Shots saved
Possession
Doumbia 10² (pen)
  
  
 Reach 38¹
10
198
116
75
147
2112
44
55%45%
Man of the match: Mathieu Bodmer