Cardiff City 0-2 Sheffield United — Result, Statistics & Match Review — England - Championship, 21 Dec 2024

Cardiff City
0-2 HT 0-0
Sheffield United
📅21/12/2024 · 🕒18:00 Istanbul · GMT+3
Top 2 Score Predictions
1st Score 0-1 ✗ 2nd Score 1-0 ✗
England - Championship – 2024/2025

Cardiff City vs Sheffield United Prediction — Model Probabilities

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
34%
2.8
Draw
27%
3.11
Away
39%
2.32
Under/Over 2.5
Under Pick
58%
1.68
Over
42%
2.07
Both Teams to Score
Yes
45%
1.82
No
55%
1.88
Total Goals
0-1 ✗
32%
2.72
2-3
40%
1.74
4-5
19%
4.02
6+
9%
19.25
Value flag · 0-1 at 2.72 — our 32% vs market 29.9%. Did not land — edges play out over many matches, not one.
Half Time / Full Time
1/1
14%
4.55
1/2
6%
30.0
1/X
6%
13.65
X/1
14%
6.12
X/2
13%
5.0
X/X
15%
4.17
2/1
6%
34.5
2/2
20%
3.41
2/X
6%
13.45
PRO iddaakolik · Analysis Engine
Model vs Market · Probabilities · Discipline
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Our Pick
Under 2.5 — 58% ✓
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 Under 2.5 — pattern-based signals at fair odds; informational, not a sized bet.
Model vs Market — where we differ
iddaakolik Market EU Bookmakers
33%
Home Win
32%
+1.4pp
27%
Draw
29%
-1.3pp
39%
Away Win
39%
-0.1pp
58%
Under 2.5
56%
+2.2pp
42%
Over 2.5
44%
-2.2pp
45%
BTTS Yes
51%
-6.4pp
55%
BTTS No
49%
+6.4pp
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.

Cardiff City v Sheffield United — Team-Based Signals

PREVIEW Match Preview Engine
iddaakolik Team Elo · Form · Goals signals
HOME Cardiff City EU Bookmakers 36%
Head to Head
AWAY Sheffield United EU Bookmakers 43%
-10% / -10% Team Performance vs MarketAll History / Recent Form · above/below bookmaker expectations +1% / +14%
0.83/1.29 Expected GoalsScored / Conceded 1.21/1.03
-32% / -3% Attack / Defense(vs League Avg.) -6% / +38%
44% Ball Possession 56%
12 Total Shots 12
4 Shots on Target 4
5 Corners 5
255 · 71% PassesSuccessful · Accuracy 352 · 77%
17.2 Box TouchesOpposition Penalty Area 24.3
17.8 Crosses 18.4
2.0 Yellow Cards 2.2

Cardiff City vs Sheffield United Head-to-Head — Last 6 Meetings

H2H Past Meetings
Real recorded figures, averaged over these meetings
HOME Cardiff City
1W-1D-4L
AWAY Sheffield United
1.00 Avg Goals (FT) 1.67
0.92 xG 1.99
43% Ball Possession 57%
12 Total Shots 12
4 Shots on Target 6
5 Corners 5
246 Passes 363
69% Pass Accuracy 77%
19 Box Touches 26
18 Crosses 17
2 Yellow Cards 1
The Meetings
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
02.04.2018 Sheffield United Sheffield United 1-1 HT 1-0 Cardiff City Cardiff City İNCL
15.08.2017 Cardiff City Cardiff City 2-0 HT 1-0 Sheffield United Sheffield United İNCL

Cardiff City 0-2 Sheffield United — Actual Match Statistics

RESULT Match Result
Real recorded figures from this match
HOME Cardiff City
0-2
AWAY Sheffield United
0.33 xG 0.78
39% Ball Possession 61%
8 Total Shots 12
2 Shots on Target 5
3 Corners 5
314 Passes 545
83% Pass Accuracy 90%
13 Box Touches 19
12 Crosses 12
3 Yellow Cards 1
POST-MATCH Cardiff City vs Sheffield United
iddaakolik Post-Match Analysis — what we said & what happened

Sheffield United beat Cardiff City 2-0 away from home. The game was level at 0-0 at the break, so the decisive goals came after it.

Our pre-match split (33% / 27% / 39%) promised a tight game; Sheffield United found the edge the numbers couldn't. We had also flagged under 2.5 goals (58%), no to both teams scoring (55%), and both reads landed as well.

On the day, Cardiff City had 39% of the ball to Sheffield United's 61%, shots finished 8-12, expected goals 0.33 to 0.78.

Coming into the game, across their last 6 meetings in our records, Sheffield United led the recent series with 4 wins, 1 drawn. Those games averaged 1.00 goals for Cardiff City and 1.67 for Sheffield United.

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

Cardiff City 0-2 Sheffield United in the England - Championship on 21/12/2024. The analysis above shows what our model predicted before kick-off next to what actually happened.

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

Before kick-off our model rated an Sheffield United win the most likely single outcome at about 39%, with the full match-result split Cardiff City 33%, draw 27%, Sheffield United 39%. The final score 0-2 confirmed our model's pre-match leads on Match Result (Sheffield United), Under 2.5, BTTS No — a clean sweep of the main markets.

✓ Match Result (Sheffield United) ✓ Under 2.5 ✓ BTTS No
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