EFL Cup · ENG · Round 1

Cardiff City
2 - 0 Full time
Bristol Rovers

Cardiff City Stadium · Cardiff (Caerdydd)

Lineups

Cardiff City4-2-3-1
JA21Alnwick
RK44Kpakio
MM5⚽↓77'McGuinness
JB23Bagan
LG49Giles
AR35Rinomhota
EK24King
RC36↓60'Conte
AR18↓60'Robertson
RC27⚽Colwill
WK15↓60'Kanga
JG1Griffiths
JS2Senior
CT17Taylor
MF25Forbes
CM6↓61'Mola
JG14Garrett
LT11Thomas
JL29↓77'Lindsay
LM23↓77'McCormick
SS7↓62'Sinclair
PO9↓61'Omochere
Bristol Rovers4-1-4-1

Cardiff City substitutes

25 Kieron Evans 7.6 ↑60'
46 Michael Reindorf 6.9 ↑60'
32 Ollie Tanner 7.9 ↑60'
31 Malachi Walcott 6.2 ↑77'
41 Matthew Turner
48 Dylan Lawlor
43 Adeteye Gbadehan

Coach: Erol Bulut

Bristol Rovers substitutes

27 Bryant Bilongo 6.2 ↑61'
37 Kofi Shaw 6.9 ↑61'
21 Micah Anthony 6.3 ↑62'
22 Kamil Conteh 6.4 ↑77'
10 Ruel Sotiriou 6.1 ↑77'
35 Matt Hall
5 James Wilson
4 Taylor Moore
19 Isaac Hutchinson

Coach: Matt Taylor

Match events

32'Mark McGuinness
Second half
60'↑ Kieron Evans ↓ Raheem Conte⇄
60'↑ Michael Reindorf ↓ Wilfried Kanga⇄
60'↑ Ollie Tanner ↓ Alex Robertson⇄
61'↑ Kofi Shaw ↓ Promise Omochere⇄
61'↑ Bryant Bilongo ↓ Clinton Mola⇄
62'↑ Micah Anthony ↓ Scott Sinclair⇄
68'Mark McGuinness assist: Ollie Tanner 1 - 0⚽
77'↑ Kamil Conteh ↓ Jamie Lindsay⇄
77'↑ Ruel Sotiriou ↓ Luke McCormick⇄
77'↑ Malachi Walcott ↓ Mark McGuinness⇄
77'Micah Anthony
90+1'Rubin Colwill assist: Kieron Evans 2 - 0⚽

Where to watch

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Match details

CompetitionEFL Cup
Kick-off (UTC)Tuesday, 13 August 2024, 18:45 UTC — shown in your local time at the top of this page
StatusFinished

Line-ups, match events and the head-to-head record for this fixture are shown on this page where the data feed publishes them.

Head to head

2Cardiff City wins1Draws1Bristol Rovers wins

4 past meetings on record. Biggest Cardiff City win: Cardiff City 1–0 Bristol Rovers (2023). Biggest Bristol Rovers win: Bristol Rovers 0–2 Cardiff City (2024).

3 Aug 2024Bristol Rovers 0 - 2 Cardiff CityClub Friendlies
11 Jul 2023Cardiff City 1 - 0 Bristol RoversClub Friendlies
11 Jul 2023Cardiff City 1 - 1 Bristol RoversClub Friendlies
11 Aug 2016Bristol Rovers 1 - 0 Cardiff CityEFL Cup