Week 40 brings us a match on Apr 2nd, where Cardiff City will host Swansea City at Cardiff City Stadium in a Championship match. The game day is forecasted to be a cloudy and cold day, with daytime temperatures of only 3 degrees, so hopefuly the match makes up for the weather. Cardiff City sits at 17th place in the tables. In their last match they recorded a 2-1 win against Stoke City. Lewis Baker scored the first goal for Stoke City in the 23rd minute, but Thomas Doyle got the equalizer for Cardiff City in the 39th minute But fortunately they were able to complete the comaback in the 43rd minute on a goal by Jordan Hugill. With 17 points in their last 10 matches Cardiff City should be reasonably happy with their performance, while 16th placed Swansea City is fresh off their 0-0 scoreless draw against Birmingham City. Neither Swansea City nor Birmingham City could manage to put one past the goalie. They had 10 and 16 shots on net respectively, but no one could score, and the match ended in a 0 – 0 draw,. Swansea City is looking for direction having 5 win and 4 losses in their last 10 matches.
On Oct 17th, Swansea City hosted Cardiff City in their last match together. Swansea City was victorious by a score of 3 to 0. Jamie Paterson struck first for Swansea City in the 29th minute, then Joel Piroe added another in the 60th minute on a feed from Jamie Paterson At the end of 90 a dissapointed Cardiff City couldn’t manage to score, and Swansea City took the shutout win.
Michael Obafemi has been on a hot streak lately. In the last five games, the attacker has scored 4 goals for Swansea City. Uche Ikpeazu and Rubin Colwill are the top scorers for Cardiff City in the last five matches, but unfortunately they only have one goal.