Birmingham City 1-2 Blackburn Rovers: result and report

Championship · Saturday 7 May 2022

Result

Birmingham City 1-2 Blackburn Rovers

Championship · Saturday 7 May 2022, 11:30 UTC · half-time 0-2

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Birmingham City 1-2 Blackburn Rovers: match report

Birmingham City were beaten by Blackburn Rovers 1-2 in the Championship on Saturday 7 May 2022. It was 0-2 at half-time.

J. Buckley opened the scoring in the 29th minute. Birmingham City's goal came from Kristian Pedersen (78'). Blackburn Rovers scored through J. Buckley (29') and B. Brereton (45').

Discipline: Birmingham City received no yellow cards; Blackburn Rovers received 1 yellow card.

Going into the game Birmingham City were 21st on 47 points from 45 and Blackburn Rovers 9th on 66 points from 45. Birmingham City went on to finish that season 21st with 47 points, and Blackburn Rovers 8th with 69.

Birmingham City lined up in a 4-1-4-1 and Blackburn Rovers in a 4-2-3-1. The highest match rating in our data went to Kristian Pedersen of Birmingham City (7.8), ahead of Ben Brereton Díaz (7.7).

Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 2 Birmingham City wins, 4 draws and 4 for Blackburn Rovers.

Data as of 4 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 29'Goal · J. BuckleyBlackburn Rovers · 0-1
  • 43'Yellow card · T. EdunBlackburn Rovers
  • 45'Goal · B. BreretonBlackburn Rovers · 0-2
  • 78'Goal · Kristian PedersenBirmingham City · 1-2

Head-to-head

10 meetings: Birmingham City 2, draws 4, Blackburn Rovers 4.

Team news

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Birmingham City line-up (4-1-4-1)

Neil Etheridge, Maxime Colin, M. Roberts, Nico Gordon, Kristian Pedersen, Ivan Šunjić, Tahith Chong, Jordan James, Juninho Bacuna, Onel Hernández, Lyle Taylor

Blackburn Rovers line-up (4-2-3-1)

Thomas Kaminski, James Brown, Yuki Takahashi, Scott Wharton, Harry Pickering, Lewis Travis, Tayo Edun, Ryan Hedges, John Buckley, Ben Brereton Díaz, Sam Gallagher