Blackburn Rovers 1-2 Leeds United: result and report
Championship · Saturday 12 March 2016
Result
Blackburn Rovers 1-2 Leeds United
Championship · Saturday 12 March 2016, 12:30 UTC · half-time 0-1
Blackburn Rovers 1-2 Leeds United: match report
Blackburn Rovers lost to Leeds United 1-2 in the Championship on Saturday 12 March 2016. The half-time score was 0-1.
Sol Bamba opened the scoring in the 34th minute. Blackburn Rovers's goal came from Simeon Jackson (89'). Leeds United scored through Sol Bamba (34') and Mirco Antenucci (69').
Discipline: Blackburn Rovers received 1 yellow card; Leeds United received 4 yellow cards.
Going into the game Blackburn Rovers were 15th on 43 points from 35 and Leeds United 18th on 42 points from 35. Blackburn Rovers went on to finish that season 15th with 55 points, and Leeds United 14th with 57.
Blackburn Rovers lined up in a 4-4-2 and Leeds United in a 4-3-3.
Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 6 Blackburn Rovers wins, 2 draws and 2 for Leeds United.
Going into the match Blackburn Rovers's last five read W-L-W-W-L and Leeds United's W-W-L-D-D.
Key events
- 34'Goal · Sol Bamba
- 69'Goal · Mirco Antenucci
- 70'Yellow card · Mirco Antenucci
- 80'Yellow card · Gaetano Berardi
- 80'Yellow card · Grant Hanley
- 81'Yellow card · Giuseppe Bellusci
- 89'Goal · Simeon Jackson
- 90+2'Yellow card · Lewis Cook
Head-to-head
Team news
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
Leeds United expected line-up (4-3-3)
Marco Silvestri, Sam Byram, Sol Bamba, Liam Cooper, Charlie Taylor, Gaetano Berardi, Alex Mowatt, Lewis Cook