Last Games & 1X2 prediction: Let's have a look at the past performance of both teams. Bournemouth has got 4 wins, 1 draws and 3 losses in the last 8 games. Their last 4 at home shows us 3 wins, 0 draws and 1 losses and the most recent one was on 17. February against Rotherham, resulting in home win (1-0). Meanwhile, last 8 matches of Cardiff shows us 5 wins, 2 draws and 1 losses. Their last 4 away shows us 3 wins, 1 draws and 0 losses and the latest one was on 16. February against Luton ending up as away win (0-2). From this data, we expect two teams with very similar performance and a possible DRAW. Football prediction for 1X2: pick DRAW!
Ranking analysis & 1X2 prediction: It's a game game between Medium ranking Bournemouth and High ranking Cardiff. Bournemouth's last 10 at home against High ranking teams shows us 6 wins, 3 draws and 1 losses. Meanwhile, Cardiff's away performance against Medium rank teams shows us 3 wins, 4 draws and 3 losses. Bournemouth's strike power is 1.7 goals per game vs 1.2 for Cardiff. While looking at the defensive side, Bournemouth is performing 0.9 and Cardiff 1.1 conceded per game. Taking all the ranking-based facts into account, expect Bournemouth being somewhat superior and probably wins the match. Football prediction for 1X2: Bournemouth to win!
Over Under 2.5 prediction: Last 8 games of Bournemouth shows us 5 games going over and 3 under 2.5 goals. Last 8 matches of Cardiff have seen 5 overs and 3 unders. Ranking-based O/U stats of Bournemouth shows us 4 overs and 6 unders during the last 10 at home against teams who perform similar to Cardiff. Meanwhile, Cardiff had 3 overs and 7 unders in their last 10 away encounters against teams with ranking nearly the same as Bournemouth. Bournemouth is averaging 1.75 goals at their home games while Cardiff scores about 2 away. Taking both numbers together, we get 3.75 goals between the two teams. On the defensive side, Bournemouth concedes 1.25 an average and Cardiff 0.75. When we get both teams´s stats combined, we expect a total of 2 goals conceded per match. With all of these statistics combined, we predict a total 2.9 goals for this match. One additional fact: history shows that 62.5% of games end up over 2.5 for Bournemouth and 62.5% for Cardiff. Soccer tip for under over 2.5: back OVER 2.5!.
BTS prediction: Will both teams score or not? Bournemouth's last 8 matches shows us 5 games where both teams scored and 3 where only one team or none of the two scored. From Cardiff's last 8 games, 5 have seen Yes's and 3 No's. Ranking-based BTS stats of Bournemouth shows us 5 Yes's and 5 No's and for Cardiff, we see 5 Yes and 5 No. There is a 87.5% chance of Bournemouth and 100% chance for Cardiff to score today. Probability of conceding a goal is 62.5% for Bournemouth and 62.5% for Cardiff. Football prediction for BTS: bet on Yes!