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Cardiff to half West Brom’s promotion charge

Cardiff City vs West Bromwich - 28/01/2020

Cardiff to half West Brom’s promotion charge
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Slaven Bilic’s West Brom have emerged as one of the favourites for promotion this season from the Championship to the Premier League. The Baggies head into Tuesday’s trip to Cardiff top of the table and looking to extend their lead.

Despite a poor recent run of form, the visitors are a point clear of second-place Leeds and four points clear of Fulham in third-place. The priority is to stay in the league’s top-two to ensure automatic promotion.

However, things have not gone to plan in recent Championship matches for the visitors. In fact, Slaven Bilic’s team have now gone six league games without a win after a surprise 1-0 defeat at home to Stoke in their last outing. The loss to the Potters means that the visitors have failed to keep a clean sheet in their last nine matches in the English second tier.

A record of just one win in their last eight league outings is a record more associated with teams fighting for their lives, not teams looking to win promotion and even be crowned champions.

Cardiff may still have an outside chance of making the Championship play-offs this season. However, the Bluebirds have slipped seven points off the top-six after a poor recent run of form, much like the visitors in many ways.

Neil Harris’ team have won just once in their last eight league outings. Last time out, Birmingham City held the home side to a 1-1 draw at St Andrew's.

One positive for the team from the Welsh capital is their Championship form at the Cardiff City Stadium, as they have suffered just one home league defeat in 15 matches dating back to last season.

Forebet predicts that this game will provide more frustration for both teams, finishing in a low-scoring draw.

Home team
Away team
Probability %
1X2
Pred
Correct score
Avg. goals
Weather conditions
Coef.
Score
Live
coef.
CH
254233
X
1 - 1
2.65
3.22
3.02 3.22 2.50 -1 -1 1
FT
2 - 1(0 - 0)
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- - -
Championship Regular Season
OVERALL TABLE PTS GP W D L +/-
1
Leicester City 97 46 31 4 11 48
2
Ipswich Town 96 46 28 12 6 35
3
Leeds United 90 46 27 9 10 38
4
Southampton 87 46 26 9 11 24
5
West Bromwich 75 46 21 12 13 23
6
Norwich City 73 46 21 10 15 15
7
Hull City 70 46 19 13 14 8
8
Middlesbrough 69 46 20 9 17 9
9
Coventry City 64 46 17 13 16 11
10
Preston North End 63 46 18 9 19 -11
11
Bristol City 62 46 17 11 18 2
12
Cardiff City 62 46 19 5 22 -17
13
Millwall 59 46 16 11 19 -10
14
Swansea City 57 46 15 12 19 -6
15
Watford 56 46 13 17 16 0
16
Sunderland 56 46 16 8 22 -2
17
Stoke City 56 46 15 11 20 -11
18
QPR 56 46 15 11 20 -11
19
Blackburn Rovers 53 46 14 11 21 -14
20
Sheffield Wednesday 53 46 15 8 23 -24
21
Plymouth Argyle 51 46 13 12 21 -11
22
Birmingham City 50 46 13 11 22 -15
23
Huddersfield 45 46 9 18 19 -29
24
Rotherham 27 46 5 12 29 -52

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