Sheffield United 2-0 Cardiff City — Result, Statistics & Match Review — England - Championship, 18 Apr 2025

📅18/04/2025 · 🕒19:30 Istanbul · GMT+3
Top 2 Score Predictions
1st Score 1-1 2nd Score 2-1
MODEL iddaakolik · Our Predictions
Probability per market · Global + League + Team blend
⏱ Odds and predictions are pre-match — updates freeze from ~20 minutes before kick-off.
Match Result
Home
49%
1.53
Draw
27%
3.94
Away
24%
4.85
Under/Over 2.5
Under
50%
2.0
Over
50%
1.74
Both Teams to Score
Yes Pick
52%
1.82
No
48%
1.88
Total Goals
0-1
26%
3.66
2-3
39%
1.82
4-5
23%
3.19
6+
12%
10.95
Half Time / Full Time
1/1
28%
1.94
1/2
6%
35.0
1/X
6%
15.95
X/1
12%
4.05
X/2
9%
11.5
X/X
15%
5.88
2/1
8%
22.0
2/2
10%
9.42
2/X
6%
18.0
Value flag · 2/1 at 22.0 — our 8% vs market 2.3%. Did not land — edges play out over many matches, not one.
PRO iddaakolik · Analysis Engine
Model vs Market · Probabilities · Discipline
Our Pick
BTTS Yes — 52%
Fair price · no betting value
The bookmaker priced every market fairly — no dependable value at these odds, so skipping is the disciplined play.
Our Pick is our best estimate of the outcome; a value flag is a separate, rarer judgement about the price.
STRENGTH Home Win BTTS Yes — pattern-based signals at fair odds; informational, not a sized bet.
Model vs Market — where we differ
iddaakolik Market EU Bookmakers
49%
Home Win
61%
-11.9pp
27%
Draw
22%
+4.7pp
24%
Away Win
17%
+7.2pp
50%
Under 2.5
46%
+3.3pp
50%
Over 2.5
54%
-3.3pp
52%
BTTS Yes
51%
+0.8pp
48%
BTTS No
49%
-0.8pp
gold — our model green — our served pick grey — EU market (margin removed: each group sums to 100%)
Edge (pp): green = we see more probability than the market · gold = essentially even (±0.5pp) · red = we see less. The Decision above outranks any single row: the engine backs well-supported edges, not merely big ones.
PREVIEW Match Preview Engine
iddaakolik Team Elo · Form · Goals signals
HOME Sheffield United EU Bookmakers 65%
Head to Head
AWAY Cardiff City EU Bookmakers 21%
+0% / +5% Team Performance vs MarketAll History / Recent Form · above/below bookmaker expectations +7% / +14%
1.71/0.78 Expected GoalsScored / Conceded 0.95/1.47
-12% / +28% Attack / Defense(vs League Avg.) +16% / +1%
58% Ball Possession 42%
15 Total Shots 10
6 Shots on Target 4
7 Corners 4
399 · 78% PassesSuccessful · Accuracy 229 · 69%
29.9 Box TouchesOpposition Penalty Area 15.4
22.3 Crosses 14.0
2.0 Yellow Cards 2.0
H2H Past Meetings
Real recorded figures, averaged over these meetings
HOME Sheffield United
5W-0D-1L
AWAY Cardiff City
1.83 Avg Goals (FT) 0.67
1.62 xG 0.86
58% Ball Possession 43%
12 Total Shots 10
6 Shots on Target 3
4 Corners 5
420 Passes 273
82% Pass Accuracy 74%
24 Box Touches 14
16 Crosses 17
1 Yellow Cards 2
09.01.2025 Sheffield United Sheffield United 0-1 HT 0-1 Cardiff City Cardiff City FAK
21.12.2024 Cardiff City Cardiff City 0-2 HT 0-0 Sheffield United Sheffield United İNCL
15.04.2023 Sheffield United Sheffield United 4-1 HT 1-1 Cardiff City Cardiff City İNCL
12.11.2022 Cardiff City Cardiff City 0-1 HT 0-0 Sheffield United Sheffield United İNCL
23.04.2022 Sheffield United Sheffield United 1-0 HT 0-0 Cardiff City Cardiff City İNCL
04.12.2021 Cardiff City Cardiff City 2-3 HT 1-0 Sheffield United Sheffield United İNCL
RESULT Match Result
Real recorded figures from this match
HOME Sheffield United
2-0
AWAY Cardiff City
1.34 xG 0.70
55% Ball Possession 45%
15 Total Shots 11
5 Shots on Target 3
6 Corners 1
377 Passes 276
83% Pass Accuracy 76%
31 Box Touches 16
13 Crosses 20
1 Yellow Cards 1
POST-MATCH Sheffield United vs Cardiff City
iddaakolik Post-Match Analysis — what we said & what happened

Sheffield United got the better of Cardiff City 2-0. Half-time: 1-0.

As we highlighted before kick-off, our model had Sheffield United as the likeliest winner at 49%, and the 2-0 landed on that lead.

Over 2.5 goals sat near a coin-flip at 50% and both teams to score was close to even at 52%.

On the day, Sheffield United had 55% of the ball to Cardiff City's 45%, shots finished 15-11, expected goals 1.34 to 0.70.

For context: across their last 6 meetings in our records, Sheffield United had the better of it with 5 wins. Those games averaged 1.83 goals for Sheffield United and 0.67 for Cardiff City.

What was the final score of Sheffield United vs Cardiff City?

Sheffield United 2-0 Cardiff City in the England - Championship on 18/04/2025. The analysis above shows what our model predicted before kick-off next to what actually happened.

What did the model predict for Sheffield United vs Cardiff City?

Before kick-off our model rated a Sheffield United win the most likely single outcome at about 49%, with the full match-result split Sheffield United 49%, draw 27%, Cardiff City 24%. The final score 2-0 confirmed our model's pre-match leads on Match Result (Sheffield United) — while BTTS Yes went the other way.

✓ Match Result (Sheffield United) ✗ BTTS Yes
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