Wrexham 1-2 Cardiff City — Result, Statistics & Match Review — England - League Cup, 28 Oct 2025

📅28/10/2025 · 🕒23:00 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
39%
2.25
Draw
25%
3.18
Away
36%
2.9
Under/Over 2.5
Under
46%
1.82
Over
54%
1.9
Both Teams to Score
Yes Pick
59%
1.73
No
41%
1.99
Total Goals
0-1
25%
3.14
2-3
38%
1.76
4-5
25%
3.54
6+
12%
14.25
Half Time / Full Time
1/1
13%
3.33
1/2
7%
31.5
1/X
10%
12.75
X/1
15%
5.29
X/2
15%
6.34
X/X
11%
4.52
2/1
11%
27.0
2/2
13%
4.42
2/X
5%
13.1
Value flag · 2/1 at 27.0 — our 11% vs market 1.7%. Did not land — edges play out over many matches, not one.
PRO iddaakolik · Analysis Engine
Model vs Market · Probabilities · Discipline
Our Pick
BTTS Yes — 59%
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 — pattern-based signals at fair odds; informational, not a sized bet.
Model vs Market — where we differ
iddaakolik Market EU Bookmakers
39%
Home Win
41%
-1.7pp
25%
Draw
28%
-2.8pp
36%
Away Win
31%
+4.5pp
46%
Under 2.5
51%
-5.1pp
54%
Over 2.5
49%
+5.1pp
59%
BTTS Yes
54%
+5.0pp
41%
BTTS No
46%
-5.0pp
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 Wrexham EU Bookmakers 44%
Head to Head
AWAY Cardiff City EU Bookmakers 34%
-12% / -12% Team Performance vs MarketAll History / Recent Form · above/below bookmaker expectations +0% / +0%
1.95/0.52 Expected GoalsScored / Conceded 0.64/1.85
-100% / Attack / Defense(vs League Avg.) +85% / -55%
50% Ball Possession 50%
12 Total Shots 11
6 Shots on Target 5
6 Corners 5
309 · 75% PassesSuccessful · Accuracy 336 · 76%
22.0 Box TouchesOpposition Penalty Area 26.9
19.0 Crosses 13.9
3.0 Yellow Cards 3.0
H2H Past Meetings
Real recorded figures, averaged over these meetings
HOME Wrexham
0W-0D-2L
AWAY Cardiff City
1.50 Avg Goals (FT) 3.00
8 Total Shots 9
6 Shots on Target 5
7 Corners 6
22.03.2002 Cardiff City Cardiff City 3-2 HT 2-1 Wrexham Wrexham İN1
04.11.2001 Wrexham Wrexham 1-3 HT 1-2 Cardiff City Cardiff City İN1
RESULT Match Result
Real recorded figures from this match
HOME Wrexham
1-2
AWAY Cardiff City
1.14 xG 1.97
50% Ball Possession 50%
14 Total Shots 23
5 Shots on Target 9
3 Corners 10
374 Passes 370
83% Pass Accuracy 84%
16 Box Touches 29
17 Crosses 22
0 Yellow Cards 3
POST-MATCH Wrexham vs Cardiff City
iddaakolik Post-Match Analysis — what we said & what happened

Cardiff City edged past Wrexham 2-1 away from home. Half-time: 0-1.

We called this one close before kick-off — 39% / 25% / 36% — and on the day Cardiff City made the difference. The goals side of the card held up too — both teams to score (59%) came in.

On the day, Wrexham had 50% of the ball to Cardiff City's 50%, shots finished 14-23, expected goals 1.14 to 1.97.

Coming into the game, across their last 2 meetings in our records, Cardiff City led the recent series with 2 wins. Those games averaged 1.50 goals for Wrexham and 3.00 for Cardiff City.

What was the final score of Wrexham vs Cardiff City?

Wrexham 1-2 Cardiff City in the England - League Cup on 28/10/2025. The analysis above shows what our model predicted before kick-off next to what actually happened.

What did the model predict for Wrexham vs Cardiff City?

Before kick-off our model rated a Wrexham win the most likely single outcome at about 39%, with the full match-result split Wrexham 39%, draw 25%, Cardiff City 36%. The final score 1-2 confirmed our model's pre-match leads on Over 2.5, BTTS Yes — while Match Result (Wrexham) went the other way.

✗ Match Result (Wrexham) ✓ Over 2.5 ✓ BTTS Yes
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