Swansea v Cardiff betting tips: Welsh derby is a real six-pointer

Cardiff have lost six of their 11 games, including heavy defeats in their last two, going down 5-1 at Blackburn before losing 4-0 at home to West Brom.

Two of their three wins have come on the road – at Blackpool and Nottingham Forest – but they are on a run of four successive defeats and Mick McCarthy’s side are 2/1 to win.

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Swansea v Cardiff head-to-head

Cardiff took the spoils in this fixture last season with Aden Flint’s eighth-minute strike proving the only goal of the game. It was the Bluebirds’ first win in five meetings, with Swansea having taken three of the previous four.

The last eight meetings have been won to nil and it is 3/4 that one or other team fail to score this time.

Cardiff have won just five of the last 22 meetings (D5 L11) and have only won back-to-back meetings once since 1988. It is 4/11 for Swansea to win or draw the game on the double chance market.

There have not been too many goals in recent meetings, with just three goals or more scored once in the last eight clashes. It is 8/15 that there will be under 2.5 goals scored on Sunday which is worth consideration for Swansea v Cardiff betting tips.

Swansea v Cardiff key battles

Cardiff need a better return from their strikers, particularly from former Luton man James Collins, whose pairing with Kieffer Moore looked to be fruitful in pre-season.

Collins has scored more than 10 league goals in each of his last five seasons – two of which saw him surpass the 20-mark – but he has failed to score in five starts.

Moore, whose goal gave Wales a 1-0 win in Estonia on Tuesday, has netted just once for the Bluebirds this term. Both could be of interest in the anytime goalscorer markets, as both are simply too good to have long barren spells and they will be a handful for the Cardiff defence.

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