Blackburn Rovers 0-2 Middlesbrough: result and report

Championship · Friday 4 April 2025

Result

Blackburn Rovers 0-2 Middlesbrough

Championship · Friday 4 April 2025, 19:00 UTC · half-time 0-2

Blackburn Rovers · Middlesbrough · Championship predictions

Blackburn Rovers 0-2 Middlesbrough: match report

Blackburn Rovers were beaten by Middlesbrough 0-2 in the Championship on Friday 4 April 2025. It was 0-2 at half-time.

Tommy Conway opened the scoring in the 2nd minute. Blackburn Rovers did not score. Middlesbrough scored through Tommy Conway (2') and Samuel Iling-Junior (8').

Discipline: Blackburn Rovers received 2 yellow cards; Middlesbrough received no yellow cards.

Going into the game Blackburn Rovers were 11th on 52 points from 39 and Middlesbrough 7th on 57 points from 39. Blackburn Rovers went on to finish that season 7th with 66 points, and Middlesbrough 10th with 64.

Blackburn Rovers lined up in a 4-2-3-1 and Middlesbrough in a 4-2-3-1. The highest match rating in our data went to Samuel Iling-Junior of Middlesbrough (8.0), ahead of Anfernee Dijksteel (7.8).

Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 5 Blackburn Rovers wins, 4 draws and 1 for Middlesbrough.

Going into the match Blackburn Rovers's last five read L-L-L-L-D and Middlesbrough's W-D-W-L-W.

Data as of 4 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 2'Goal · Tommy ConwayMiddlesbrough · 0-1
  • 8'Goal · Samuel Iling-JuniorMiddlesbrough · 0-2
  • 23'Yellow card · Makhtar GueyeBlackburn Rovers
  • 62'Yellow card · John BuckleyBlackburn Rovers

Head-to-head

10 meetings: Blackburn Rovers 5, draws 4, Middlesbrough 1.

Team news

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

Aynsley Pears, Joe Rankin-Costello, Dominic Hyam, Danny Batth, Yuri Ribeiro, John Buckley, Lewis Travis, Tyrhys Dolan, Todd Cantwell, Ryan Hedges, Makhtar Gueye

Middlesbrough line-up (4-2-3-1)

Mark Travers, Anfernee Dijksteel, Jonathan Howson, Neto Borges, Samuel Iling-Junior, Aidan Morris, Hayden Hackney, Delano Burgzorg, Kelechi Iheanacho, Finn Azaz, Tommy Conway