Cardiff City – Burnley match report
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Burnley let a lead slip and lost 5-4 to Cardiff City at Cardiff City Stadium. Yousef Salech scored twice for Cardiff City. Player of the match: Rubin Colwill of Cardiff City, with a ScoreMondo rating of 9.7. Saturday 7 November, Cardiff City Stadium (Cardiff): Cardiff City against Burnley on matchday 15, kick-off 15:00. 19,462 spectators were at Cardiff City Stadium.
How the match unfolded
Burnley took the lead on 15 minutes thanks to Andreas Hountondji, set up by Lucas Pires. Marcus Edwards made it 2-0 for Burnley after 25 minutes, set up by Jaydon Banel. Cardiff City pulled one back to make it 1-2 on 41 minutes thanks to Ollie Tanner. It was Cardiff City 1-2 Burnley at half-time.
Burnley extended their lead to 3-1 on 55 minutes thanks to Largie Ramazani. Burnley extended their lead to 4-1 on 62 minutes thanks to an own goal from Alex Robertson. Cardiff City pulled one back to make it 2-4 on 65 minutes thanks to Yousef Salech, set up by Cian Ashford. Cardiff City pulled one back to make it 3-4 in the 75th minute with Jack Moylan from the penalty spot. Cardiff City drew level at 4-4 in the 82nd minute through Yousef Salech, set up by Rubin Colwill.
Late on, in the 90th minute, Cardiff City completed the turnaround at 5-4.
Match statistics
On target it was 8-9, from 17 and 11 attempts respectively. Cardiff City won 5 corners, Burnley 6. The referee showed 7 yellow cards, 4 to Cardiff City and 3 to Burnley. Cardiff City produced 59 dangerous attacks to Burnley's 33. Fouls: 8 by Cardiff City, 12 by Burnley; offsides 0-1.
Booked for Cardiff City: Krystian Bielik (50'), Joel Bagan (79'), Rubin Colwill (101') and Yousef Salech (103'). Burnley's yellow cards went to Largie Ramazani in the 79th minute, Kyle Walker in the 99th minute and Josh Laurent in the 101st minute.
Ratings and substitutions
Behind him, Largie Ramazani at 9.5, Alex Robertson at 8.6 and Chris Willock at 8.5 were next in the ScoreMondo ratings. Cardiff City made 4 changes: Yousef Salech for Ollie Tanner (63'), Calum Scanlon for Krystian Bielik (71'), Joel Colwill for Chris Willock (96') and Ronan Kpakio for Jack Moylan (96'). From the Burnley bench came Aaron Ramsey on 58 minutes, Josh Cullen on 58 minutes, Connor Roberts on 64 minutes and Oliver Sonne on 64 minutes, among 5 changes.
Before the match
The table had Cardiff City 18th (15 points) and Burnley 22nd (10 points) going into the game. Before kick-off, Cardiff City's last 5 matches had brought 2 wins, 2 draws and 1 defeat. Cardiff City drew 3-3 with West Ham United last time out. Burnley came into the match with 3 draws and 2 defeats from their last 5 matches — 5 without a win. Burnley were held 1-1 by Queens Park Rangers in their latest outing. The record between them over the last 10 matches reads 1-4-5 from Cardiff City's point of view. When they last met, on 23 September 2025, Cardiff City won 2-1. There have been 27 goals in the 10 meetings, 2.7 a game. Referee Oliver Langford showed 7 yellow cards; the average in our records is 3.4 yellows per game over 65 matches.
The bigger picture
The result lifts Cardiff City to 14th with 18 points, up from 18th. Burnley stay 22nd on 10 points. Burnley have now gone 6 matches without a win.
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