Blackburn Rovers 1-4 Norwich City: result and report
Championship · Saturday 6 August 2016
Result
Blackburn Rovers 1-4 Norwich City
Championship · Saturday 6 August 2016, 14:00 UTC · half-time 0-3
Blackburn Rovers 1-4 Norwich City: match report
Blackburn Rovers lost to Norwich City 1-4 in the Championship on Saturday 6 August 2016. The half-time score was 0-3.
Jacob Murphy opened the scoring in the 12th minute. Blackburn Rovers's goal came from Anthony Stokes (67'). Norwich City scored through Jacob Murphy (12'), Wesley Hoolahan (17'), Cameron Jerome (25') and S. Naismith (58').
Discipline: Blackburn Rovers received 3 yellow cards; Norwich City received 3 yellow cards.
Blackburn Rovers went on to finish that season 22nd with 51 points, and Norwich City 8th with 70.
Blackburn Rovers lined up in a 4-4-2 and Norwich City in a 4-2-3-1.
Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 3 Blackburn Rovers wins, 2 draws and 2 for Norwich City.
Key events
- 12'Goal · Jacob Murphy
- 16'Yellow card · Elliott Bennett
- 17'Goal · Wesley Hoolahan
- 25'Goal · Cameron Jerome
- 58'Goal · S. Naismith
- 67'Goal · Anthony Stokes
- 69'Yellow card · Cameron Jerome
- 76'Yellow card · Gordon Greer
- 76'Yellow card · Gordon Greer
- 80'Yellow card · Youssouf Mulumbu
- 80'Yellow card · Youssouf Mulumbu
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
Norwich City expected line-up (4-2-3-1)
John Ruddy, Martin Olsson, Ivo Pinto, Ryan Bennett, Russell Martin, Gary O'Neil, Jonathan Howson, Nathan Redmond, Dieumerci Mbokani