Norwich City 4-2 Cardiff City — Result, Statistics & Match Review — England - Championship, 3 May 2025

📅03/05/2025 · 🕒14:30 Istanbul · GMT+3
Top 2 Score Predictions
1st Score 2-1 2nd Score 3-1
MODEL iddaakolik · Our Predictions
Authentic Intelligence™ · Probability per market
⏱ Odds and predictions are pre-match — updates freeze from ~20 minutes before kick-off.
Match Result
Home Pick
64%
1.53
Draw
20%
4.08
Away
16%
4.75
Under/Over 2.5
Under
40%
2.21
Over
60%
1.64
Both Teams to Score
Yes
55%
1.69
No
45%
2.05
Total Goals
0-1
19%
2-3
45%
4-5
28%
6+
8%
Half Time / Full Time
1/1
40%
1/2
1%
1/X
4%
X/1
20%
X/2
6%
X/X
12%
2/1
4%
2/2
9%
2/X
4%
STRENGTH — green bars inside a box show the pattern support behind that selection, from Good · Strong · Very strong to Great — the deeper the historical record, the fuller the bar; informational, not a sized bet.
Our Pick = the most likely outcome, not a value bet.
SIGNALS Team Signals — the why behind the numbers
iddaakolik predictions — not real match figures
HOME Norwich City The Market 65%
Head to Head
AWAY Cardiff City The Market 21%
Average Team Performanceagainst Market Expectation Strong
2.45 xG Scorediddaakolik model prediction 1.01
0.91 xG Concedediddaakolik model prediction 1.65
Strong Attack Strength Average
Weak Defense Strength Strong
59% Ball Possession 41%
16 Total Shots 9
6 Shots on Target 3
7 Corners 3
423 · 81% PassesSuccessful · Accuracy 269 · 73%
28 Box TouchesOpposition Penalty Area 16
22 Crosses 15
1 Yellow Cards 2
H2H Past Meetings
Real recorded figures, averaged over these meetings
HOME Norwich City
4W-0D-2L
AWAY Cardiff City
2.00 Avg Goals (FT) 1.17
1.93 xG 0.62
57% Ball Possession 43%
16 Total Shots 10
6 Shots on Target 4
6 Corners 2
431 Passes 296
83% Pass Accuracy 77%
22 Box Touches 18
17 Crosses 16
1 Yellow Cards 3
02.11.2024 Cardiff City Cardiff City 2-1 HT 0-0 Norwich City Norwich City İNCL
17.02.2024 Norwich City Norwich City 4-1 HT 2-1 Cardiff City Cardiff City İNCL
11.11.2023 Cardiff City Cardiff City 2-3 HT 2-1 Norwich City Norwich City İNCL
25.02.2023 Norwich City Norwich City 2-0 HT 2-0 Cardiff City Cardiff City İNCL
30.07.2022 Cardiff City Cardiff City 1-0 HT 0-0 Norwich City Norwich City İNCL
16.01.2021 Cardiff City Cardiff City 1-2 HT 0-2 Norwich City Norwich City İNCL
RESULT Match Result
Real recorded figures from this match
HOME Norwich City
4 - 2
AWAY Cardiff City
2.97 xG 1.85
64% Ball Possession 36%
22 Total Shots 19
8 Shots on Target 6
6 Corners 9
511 Passes 264
92% Pass Accuracy 86%
33 Box Touches 30
17 Crosses 17
3 Yellow Cards 2
REVIEW Norwich City vs Cardiff City
IDDAAKOLIK POST-MATCH REVIEW

Norwich City had too much for Cardiff City 4-2. Half-time: 3-0. A 6-goal game — the defences never settled.

As we said in the preview, our model had Norwich City as the likeliest winner at 63%, and the 4-2 landed on that lead. We had also flagged over 2.5 goals (60%), both teams to score (55%), and both reads landed as well.

By the numbers, Norwich City had 64% of the ball to Cardiff City's 36%, shots finished 22-19, expected goals 2.97 to 1.85.

The head-to-head backdrop: across their last 6 meetings in our records, Norwich City had the better of it with 4 wins. Those games averaged 2.00 goals for Norwich City and 1.17 for Cardiff City.

Norwich City vs Cardiff City Result & Final Score

Norwich City 4 - 2 Cardiff City in the England - Championship on 03/05/2025. The analysis above shows what our model predicted before kick-off next to what actually happened.

Norwich City vs Cardiff City Prediction vs Result

Before kick-off our model rated a Norwich City win the most likely single outcome at about 63%, with the full match-result split Norwich City 63%, draw 20%, Cardiff City 16%. The final score 4-2 confirmed our model's pre-match leads on Match Result (Norwich City), Over 2.5, BTTS Yes — a clean sweep of the main markets.

✓ Match Result (Norwich City) ✓ Over 2.5 ✓ BTTS Yes
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