Blackburn Rovers 1-0 Middlesbrough: result and report
Championship · Monday 24 January 2022
Result
Blackburn Rovers 1-0 Middlesbrough
Championship · Monday 24 January 2022, 19:45 UTC · half-time 0-0
Blackburn Rovers 1-0 Middlesbrough: match report
Blackburn Rovers beat Middlesbrough 1-0 in the Championship on Monday 24 January 2022. The half-time score was 0-0.
The only goal came from Sam Gallagher of Blackburn Rovers in the 76th minute.
Discipline: Blackburn Rovers received 4 yellow cards; Middlesbrough received 6 yellow cards.
Going into the game Blackburn Rovers were 3rd on 49 points from 27 and Middlesbrough 7th on 42 points from 26. Blackburn Rovers went on to finish that season 8th with 69 points, and Middlesbrough 7th with 70.
Blackburn Rovers lined up in a 3-4-1-2 and Middlesbrough in a 3-5-2. The highest match rating in our data went to Sam Gallagher of Blackburn Rovers (8.1), ahead of Lewis Travis (7.7).
Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 3 Blackburn Rovers wins, 6 draws and 1 for Middlesbrough.
Going into the match Blackburn Rovers's last five read L-W-D-W-W and Middlesbrough's W-W-W-W-D.
Key events
- 4'Yellow card · Neil Taylor
- 15'Yellow card · Matt Crooks
- 26'Yellow card · A. Connolly
- 29'Yellow card · Marcus Tavernier
- 37'Yellow card · Ryan Nyambe
- 50'Yellow card · Lewis Travis
- 76'Goal · Sam Gallagher
- 90'Yellow card · S. Wharton
- 90+2'Yellow card · Paddy McNair
- 90+9'Yellow card · I. Jones
- 90+11'Yellow card · T. Edun
Head-to-head
Team news
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Blackburn Rovers line-up (3-4-1-2)
Thomas Kaminski, Darragh Lenihan, Jan Paul van Hecke, Scott Wharton, Ryan Nyambe, Lewis Travis, Bradley Johnson, Tayo Edun, John Buckley, Reda Khadra, Sam Gallagher
Middlesbrough line-up (3-5-2)
Joe Lumley, Anfernee Dijksteel, Dael Fry, Paddy McNair, Isaiah Jones, Matt Crooks, Jonathan Howson, Marcus Tavernier, Neil Taylor, Andraz Sporar, Aaron Connolly