Cardiff unbeaten at home, winless away in Championship
3 wins and 3 draws at home against 0 wins and 2 draws on the road leave Cardiff 16th on 14 points.
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Cardiff beat Birmingham 1-0 on Saturday 24 October to close matchday 12 with a first win in 1W — and to keep intact a split that is starting to define their season.
At home the record reads 3 wins, 3 draws, 0 defeats from 6 games. Away it reads 0 wins, 2 draws, 4 defeats from 6. Same team, same eleven-odd weeks, two different clubs.
The table says 16th, points from 12 matches, 19 scored and 17 conceded for a goal difference of 2. That is a side scoring at a decent rate and paying for it at the other end.
Look at the goals again. 19 in 12 games is top-half output. 17 is not. Whatever is happening on the road, it is happening in both boxes.
Cardiff await on Saturday 31 October in matchday 13, at Wolverhampton. A ground where the home side sit 4th on 21 points with a goal difference of +4. Not the softest place to go looking for a first away win.
Then again, Cardiff have already drawn twice on their travels. They are not being blown away every other week. Four defeats in 6 is the problem, and one of those came against Birmingham's neighbours in the table rather than the division's best.
At the top, Middlesbrough lead on 25, with Swansea on 23 and West Ham on 22. The gap between Cardiff and the summit is 25 minus 14 points. That is not a collapse. It is a team stuck in neutral.
Jack Moylan has 6 of the 19, level with Jarrod Bowen of West Ham and behind William Lankshear, Andri Guðjohnsen and Cyle Larin. Fine company. It also means the supply is there.
So here is the question for Cardiff: how long can a club win every home game it does not draw and lose every away game it does not draw? Six home matches, no defeats. Six away, no wins. The next away trip will tell us plenty.