Blackburn Rovers 1-2 Cardiff City: result and report

Championship · Saturday 15 March 2025

Result

Blackburn Rovers 1-2 Cardiff City

Championship · Saturday 15 March 2025, 15:00 UTC · half-time 1-1

Blackburn Rovers · Cardiff City · Championship predictions

Blackburn Rovers 1-2 Cardiff City: match report

Blackburn Rovers lost to Cardiff City 1-2 in the Championship on Saturday 15 March 2025. The half-time score was 1-1.

Yousef Salech opened the scoring in the 4th minute. Blackburn Rovers's goal came from Yuki Ohashi (16'). Cardiff City scored through Yousef Salech (4') and Yakou Méïté (73').

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

Going into the game Blackburn Rovers were 9th on 52 points from 37 and Cardiff City 21st on 36 points from 37. Blackburn Rovers went on to finish that season 7th with 66 points, and Cardiff City 24th with 44.

Blackburn Rovers lined up in a 4-2-3-1 and Cardiff City in a 3-1-4-2. The highest match rating in our data went to Yakou Méïté of Cardiff City (7.8), level with Dominic Hyam (7.8).

Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 6 Blackburn Rovers wins, 3 draws and 1 for Cardiff City.

Data as of 4 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 4'Goal · Yousef SalechCardiff City · 0-1
  • 13'Yellow card · Calum ChambersCardiff City
  • 16'Goal · Yuki OhashiBlackburn Rovers · 1-1
  • 73'Goal · Yakou MéïtéCardiff City · 1-2

Head-to-head

10 meetings: Blackburn Rovers 6, draws 3, Cardiff City 1.

Team news

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

Aynsley Pears, Joe Rankin-Costello, Hayden Carter, Dominic Hyam, Yuri Ribeiro, Sondre Tronstad, Lewis Travis, Tyrhys Dolan, Yuki Ohashi, Emmanuel Dennis, Makhtar Gueye

Cardiff City line-up (3-1-4-2)

Ethan Horvath, Perry Ng, Will Fish, Joel Bagan, Calum Chambers, Andrew Farai Rinomhota, Sivert Mannsverk, Joe Ralls, Callum O'Dowda, Yousef Salech, Callum Robinson