Millwall 2-2 Cardiff City — Result, Statistics & Match Review — England - Championship, 21 Jan 2025

📅21/01/2025 · 🕒23:00 Istanbul · GMT+3
Top 2 Score Predictions
1st Score 0-0 2nd Score 1-0
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
35%
2.12
Draw
32%
2.83
Away
33%
3.48
Under/Over 2.5
Under Pick
68%
1.36
Over
32%
2.96
Both Teams to Score
Yes
35%
2.44
No
65%
1.49
Total Goals
0-1
43%
1.82
2-3
39%
1.85
4-5
13%
7.17
6+
5%
34.5
Half Time / Full Time
1/1
18%
3.23
1/2
4%
34.5
1/X
4%
15.5
X/1
13%
4.41
X/2
19%
6.89
X/X
24%
3.14
2/1
4%
34.5
2/2
10%
6.32
2/X
4%
16.5
PRO iddaakolik · Analysis Engine
Model vs Market · Probabilities · Discipline
Our Pick
Under 2.5 — 68%
Fair price · no betting value
Every market fairly priced — no value edge at these odds. Our Pick = the most likely outcome, not a value bet.
Model vs Market — where we differ
iddaakolik Selection The Market
35%
Home Win
43%
-7.9pp
32%
Draw
32%
+0.1pp
33%
Away Win
25%
+7.9pp
68%
Under 2.5
70%
-1.5pp
32%
Over 2.5
30%
+1.5pp
35%
BTTS Yes
37%
-1.9pp
65%
BTTS No
63%
+1.9pp
gold — our model green — our served pick grey — the 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 Millwall The Market 47%
Head to Head
AWAY Cardiff City The Market 29%
-1% / +2% Team Performance vs MarketAll History / Recent Form · above/below bookmaker expectations +10% / +4%
1.34/0.88 Expected GoalsScored / Conceded 1.01/1.34
-5% / +10% Attack / Defense(vs League Avg.) +9% / +15%
53% Ball Possession 47%
12 Total Shots 8
4 Shots on Target 3
5 Corners 4
343 · 79% PassesSuccessful · Accuracy 298 · 76%
22.8 Box TouchesOpposition Penalty Area 17.3
22.7 Crosses 15.6
1.7 Yellow Cards 2.0
H2H Past Meetings
Real recorded figures, averaged over these meetings
HOME Millwall
4W-0D-2L
AWAY Cardiff City
1.33 Avg Goals (FT) 0.67
1.27 xG 1.07
48% Ball Possession 52%
13 Total Shots 12
5 Shots on Target 4
5 Corners 5
264 Passes 300
70% Pass Accuracy 73%
20 Box Touches 19
17 Crosses 19
2 Yellow Cards 1
01.10.2024 Cardiff City Cardiff City 1-0 HT 1-0 Millwall Millwall İNCL
13.04.2024 Millwall Millwall 3-1 HT 2-1 Cardiff City Cardiff City İNCL
09.12.2023 Cardiff City Cardiff City 1-0 HT 0-0 Millwall Millwall İNCL
21.01.2023 Cardiff City Cardiff City 0-1 HT 0-1 Millwall Millwall İNCL
03.09.2022 Millwall Millwall 2-0 HT 0-0 Cardiff City Cardiff City İNCL
12.02.2022 Millwall Millwall 2-1 HT 0-0 Cardiff City Cardiff City İNCL
RESULT Match Result
Real recorded figures from this match
HOME Millwall
2-2
AWAY Cardiff City
0.68 xG 1.00
42% Ball Possession 58%
7 Total Shots 13
3 Shots on Target 5
4 Corners 2
203 Passes 321
64% Pass Accuracy 72%
13 Box Touches 19
17 Crosses 14
POST-MATCH Millwall vs Cardiff City
iddaakolik Post-Match Analysis — what we said & what happened

Millwall and Cardiff City couldn't be separated, finishing 2-2. It was 2-1 at half-time, meaning the result turned around in the second half.

We called this one close before kick-off — 35% / 32% / 33% — and a draw is about as on-script as that read gets. The goals read — under 2.5 goals (68%), no to both teams scoring (65%) — went the other way, though.

On the day, Millwall had 42% of the ball to Cardiff City's 58%, shots finished 7-13, expected goals 0.68 to 1.00.

Coming into the game, across their last 6 meetings in our records, Millwall had the better of it with 4 wins. Those games averaged 1.33 goals for Millwall and 0.67 for Cardiff City.

What was the final score of Millwall vs Cardiff City?

Millwall 2-2 Cardiff City in the England - Championship on 21/01/2025. The analysis above shows what our model predicted before kick-off next to what actually happened.

What did the model predict for Millwall vs Cardiff City?

Before kick-off our model rated a Millwall win the most likely single outcome at about 35%, with the full match-result split Millwall 35%, draw 32%, Cardiff City 33%. The final score 2-2 went against our main leads this time — single matches are noisy by nature; our accuracy is measured across thousands of predictions, not one result.

✗ Match Result (Millwall) ✗ Under 2.5 ✗ BTTS No
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