Cardiff vs Swansea City Predictions

• Cardiff have won five of their last eight Championship home games.
• Swansea have lost four of their last six league away games.
• Cardiff have conceded just seven times in their last 11 Championship games.

Bluebirds will be singing on Saturday

Cardiff can leapfrog Swansea on Saturday’s south Wales derby and there’s no reason to suspect Steve Morison’s side won’t send their raucous fans home happy.

The Bluebirds bring good home form into the game, having won five of their last eight at Cardiff City Stadium, and their general form since the end of January stacks up well overall. Morison’s men have lost four games in the subsequent two month spell –  but those defeats were away to Liverpool, Millwall and Huddersfield and a narrow 1-0 home loss to table-toppers Fulham.

Swansea will bring nothing like the same quality and momentum that those four teams possessed to this contest. Russell Martin’s side are wobbly away from home and, as they did in a 5-1 drubbing by Fulham, can go under when the pressure is on.

Fulham results suggest how this could go for Swans

That home thrashing by Fulham came just a fortnight after the Cottagers had to settle for that narrow win against a much-disrupted Cardiff line-up in the Welsh capital. The Swans have lost four of their last six away games and have failed to score in six of their last nine league road trips.

It all points to a home win and we believe the odds of reward are good enoigh to take without overcomplicating matters. Swansea are known to be slow starters in games – they have trailed at half-time in five of their last nine away games, so there could be a route to better odds via the double result here too.

We’re expecting Cardiff to get on top of the visitors early and cruise to a 2-0 win with that forecast reflecting how stout their defence has become in conceding just seven goals in their last 11 league games.