Blackburn Rovers 0-2 Norwich City: result and report

Championship · Saturday 30 August 2025

Result

Blackburn Rovers 0-2 Norwich City

Championship · Saturday 30 August 2025, 14:00 UTC · half-time 0-1

Blackburn Rovers · Norwich City · Championship predictions

Blackburn Rovers 0-2 Norwich City: match report

Blackburn Rovers lost to Norwich City 0-2 in the Championship on Saturday 30 August 2025. The half-time score was 0-1.

Josh Sargent opened the scoring in the 45th minute. Blackburn Rovers did not score. Norwich City scored through Josh Sargent (45', penalty) and Josh Sargent (90+1').

Discipline: Blackburn Rovers received 2 yellow cards and 1 red card; Norwich City received no yellow cards.

Going into the game Blackburn Rovers were 17th on 3 points from 3 and Norwich City 18th on 3 points from 3. Blackburn Rovers went on to finish that season 22nd with 52 points, and Norwich City 9th with 65.

Blackburn Rovers lined up in a 4-2-3-1 and Norwich City in a 3-4-2-1. The highest match rating in our data went to Josh Sargent of Norwich City (7.7), ahead of Harry Darling (7.6).

Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 2 Blackburn Rovers wins, 4 draws and 4 for Norwich City.

Data as of 4 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 44'Red card · Sean McLoughlinBlackburn Rovers
  • 45'Penalty goal · Josh SargentNorwich City · 0-1
  • 52'Yellow card · Sondre TronstadBlackburn Rovers
  • 81'Yellow card · Todd CantwellBlackburn Rovers
  • 90+1'Goal · Josh SargentNorwich City · 0-2

Head-to-head

10 meetings: Blackburn Rovers 2, draws 4, Norwich City 4.

Team news

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

Balázs Tóth, Ryan Alebiosu, Dominic Hyam, Sean McLoughlin, Yuri Ribeiro, Sondre Tronstad, Sidnei Tavares, Augustus Kargbo, Todd Cantwell, Ryan Hedges, Yuki Ohashi

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

Vladan Kovacevic, Jakov Medic, Harry Darling, Ben Chrisene, Kellen Fisher, Mirko Topic, Kenny McLean, Papa Amadou Diallo, Ante Crnac, Mathias Kvistgaarden, Josh Sargent