This would’ve won in eight of Bristol City’s nine matches this season. Only twice this season have Bristol City scored more than once in a game and the average goals per game in matches involving them this season is 2.55. If we ignore the freakish 4-3 scoreline against Millwall than the average drops to 2 goals per game.

Cardiff’s matches have been more volatile but a change of manager coincided with their first league clean sheet of the season on Tuesday against Millwall. Cardiff have scored just three league goals this season and are the lowest scoring team in the division.

This would’ve have been a winner in seventeen of the nineteen total matches that Bristol City and Cardiff have played in this season.

The only exception has been Cardiff’s 5-3 defeat to Southampton in the Carabao Cup and their 4-1 defeat to Hull in the league. Bristol City haven’t scored a first half goal since George Tanner’s strike against Coventry on the 24th August – six matches ago.

Nobody playing in this fixture has committed more fouls this season than Bristol City’s Joe Williams. He has forced the referee to bring the whistle to his lips on twelve occasions so far this season.

He has been booked four times, and three of these have come from a foul preventing the opposition from transitioning into a counter attack scenario.

Bristol City have won two matches this season, both times by a solitary goal. For this leg of the bet builder to lose, even if Cardiff don’t get on the scoresheet it requires Bristol City to score twice and they’ve done that just twice in nine matches.

Cardiff kept their first clean sheet of the season in their last match and will be looking to back that up by finding a more consistent, solid look.

This bet would’ve won in every Bristol City match this season barring the 4-3 with Millwall on the 17th August and it would only have lost three times in Cardiff ten matches in all competitions this season despite them conceding twenty-two goals in those ten games.

The other M4 cross border match this season between Swansea and Bristol City was a low margin, slow burner match as was the Swansea v Cardiff derby. This game has a similar feel and should follow the trend.

Sykes has committed a single foul in every match he’s played this season. Seven matches, seven fouls. No change, whether he’s a starter or a used substitute.

He has picked up four yellow cards this season, three in the his last three matches. He plays with an edge to his game and picks up his fouls by way of mistimed tackles and a lack of discipline. In a notoriously feisty fixture he can be expected to add to his tally.

Twine has taken eighteen shots in the Championship this season for a total xG of 2.14, scoring once. Six of his eighteen shots have been on target and they include direct free-kicks from range.

In a match that is likely to be of few chances and a battle in midfield, set-pieces could prove to be vital in the match outcome and Twine is well known for his long range shooting and dead ball skills.

Colwill finally seems to have established himself in the Cardiff starting XI and has quickly shown himself to be a threat in the final third of the pitch. He has played the 90 minutes+ in the last four matches, taking eights shots in total, at least one in each game.

He’s had a shot on target in each fixture also – three on target from three shots in the midweek 1-0 win versus Millwall.