Blackburn Rovers 2-0 Birmingham City: result and report
Championship · Tuesday 8 March 2016
Result
Blackburn Rovers 2-0 Birmingham City
Championship · Tuesday 8 March 2016, 19:45 UTC · half-time 2-0
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Blackburn Rovers 2-0 Birmingham City: match report
Blackburn Rovers defeated Birmingham City 2-0 in the Championship on Tuesday 8 March 2016. The half-time score was 2-0.
Tony Watt opened the scoring in the 20th minute. Blackburn Rovers's goals came from Tony Watt (20') and Danny Graham (23'). Birmingham City did not score.
Discipline: Blackburn Rovers received 4 yellow cards; Birmingham City received 1 yellow card.
Going into the game Blackburn Rovers were 16th on 40 points from 34 and Birmingham City 9th on 53 points from 34. Blackburn Rovers went on to finish that season 15th with 55 points, and Birmingham City 10th with 62.
Blackburn Rovers lined up in a 4-4-2 and Birmingham City in a 4-2-3-1. The highest match rating in our data went to Diego Fabbrini of Birmingham City (7.1), ahead of Tomasz Kuszczak (6.9).
Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 3 Blackburn Rovers wins, 5 draws and 2 for Birmingham City.
Key events
- 20'Goal · Tony Watt
- 23'Goal · Danny Graham
- 45+1'Yellow card · Elliott Bennett
- 45+1'Yellow card · Jonathan Grounds
- 45+1'Yellow card · Jordi Gómez
- 60'Yellow card · Corry Evans
- 73'Yellow card · Darragh Lenihan
Head-to-head
Team news
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Blackburn Rovers expected line-up (4-4-2)
Grant Hanley, Shane Duffy, Tommy Spurr, Jason Lowe, Ben Marshall, Josef Dvornik, Tom Cairney, Ryan Tunnicliffe, J. Rhodes, Craig Conway, Rudy Gestede
Birmingham City line-up (4-2-3-1)
Tomasz Kuszczak, Paul Caddis, Michael Morrison, Paul Robinson, Jonathan Grounds, Stephen Gleeson, Maikel Kieftenbeld, David Cotterill, Jon Toral, Jacques Maghoma, Clayton Donaldson