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Cardiff City face a trip to Charlton Athletic at The Valley on Saturday afternoon, needing to turn around their fortunes at the ground. The Bluebirds will be hoping to improve upon a record which has seen them lose 19 and win only 4 of the 33 games.
The most recent encounter between these two sides was just last season, in November 2007, with Charlton Ath. running out comfortable 3 - 0 winners in a Championship match.
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| Recent encounters between the teams: | |||||
| 2008/2009 | Sat 18 Oct | Cardiff City | 2 - 0 | Charlton Ath. | CHMP |
| 2007/2008 | Tue 04 Dec | Cardiff City | 0 - 2 | Charlton Ath. | CHMP |
| 2007/2008 | Sat 10 Nov | Charlton Ath. | 3 - 0 | Cardiff City | CHMP |
| 1984/1985 | Tue 05 Mar | Charlton Ath. | 1 - 4 | Cardiff City | CHMP |
| 1984/1985 | Sat 25 Aug | Cardiff City | 0 - 3 | Charlton Ath. | CHMP |
| 1983/1984 | Tue 31 Jan | Cardiff City | 2 - 1 | Charlton Ath. | CHMP |
| 1983/1984 | Sat 27 Aug | Charlton Ath. | 2 - 0 | Cardiff City | CHMP |
Recent respective form guides
Charlton Athletic have only collected 1 win and 3 draws from the last six home games played. The Addicks's have scored 7 goals in these games, but conceded an alarming 9.
Cardiff City's away form is none too clever either, unbeaten in the last six, but with four of them resulting in draws. The games have constituted a decent return of 10 goals for the Bluebirds, and 0 goals against.
Charlton Ath. find themselves stuck right at the bottom of the division. Their 31 games have yielded only 22 points. Cardiff City's total of 51 points from their 29 games sees them sitting in the playoff places in Coca-Cola Championship.
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| Current form guides: | P | W | D | L | F | A | P |
| Charlton Ath. | 6 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 6 | 10 | 6 |
| Cardiff City | 6 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 8 | 1 | 14 |
FootyMad's prediction ...
Cardiff City are in reasonable form away from home coming into this match, and the Madmen are quite confident that they should come away with a comfortable victory from this contest. Away win
| Sequence statistics: | |
| Charlton Ath. | Latest 2 games ended in defeat. Not won in the 2 most recent games. |
| Cardiff City | Undefeated in last 6 away games. 14 games since last defeat. |