{"id":858893,"date":"2026-08-17T21:36:12","date_gmt":"2026-08-17T21:36:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/858893\/"},"modified":"2026-08-17T21:36:12","modified_gmt":"2026-08-17T21:36:12","slug":"cardiff-city-vs-wrexham-championship-stats-head-to-head","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/858893\/","title":{"rendered":"Cardiff City vs Wrexham: Championship stats &#038; head-to-head"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Rubin Colwill rattled in a 98th-minute free-kick as Cardiff City salvaged a draw in a dramatic Welsh derby against Wrexham in their opening game of the new Championship season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Wrexham looked set for a hard-fought away victory after former Cardiff striker Kieffer Moore silenced the home crowd with a smart finish from a tight angle early on.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Veteran Wales international Moore was taunted by Bluebirds fans inside the opening exchanges in the Welsh capital \u2013 and immediately responded with what looked being the decisive moment of a tense contest.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Moore later headed against the woodwork before Wrexham defender Callum Doyle&#8217;s drive cannoned off the post.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">For all their endeavour, Cardiff looked like lacking the quality to find an equaliser until Wrexham wobbled in added time.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Phil Parkinson&#8217;s side thought they had escaped when a scrambling Dom Hyam headed Ronan Kpakio&#8217;s cross against his own bar.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">But after Joel Colwill was tripped by George Dobson right on the edge of the Wrexham penalty area, Rubin Colwill&#8217;s fierce set-piece found the target despite a touch from the Red Dragons&#8217; debutant keeper Anthony Patterson.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">More to  follow. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rubin Colwill rattled in a 98th-minute free-kick as Cardiff City salvaged a draw in a dramatic Welsh derby&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":858894,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[563],"tags":[64,63,596,85],"class_list":["post-858893","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-football","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/858893","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=858893"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/858893\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/858894"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=858893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=858893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=858893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}