Blackburn Rovers 3-3 Nottingham Forest: result and report

Championship · Saturday 18 April 2015

Result

Blackburn Rovers 3-3 Nottingham Forest

Championship · Saturday 18 April 2015, 14:00 UTC · half-time 2-2

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Blackburn Rovers 3-3 Nottingham Forest: match report

Blackburn Rovers drew with Nottingham Forest 3-3 in the Championship on Saturday 18 April 2015. The half-time score was 2-2.

Rudy Gestede opened the scoring in the 3rd minute. Blackburn Rovers's goals came from Rudy Gestede (3'), Rudy Gestede (35') and Rudy Gestede (82'). Nottingham Forest scored through Michail Antonio (7'), Nicolás Frutos (45') and Michail Antonio (88').

Discipline: Blackburn Rovers received 1 yellow card; Nottingham Forest received 1 yellow card.

Going into the game Blackburn Rovers were 9th on 59 points from 42 and Nottingham Forest 10th on 58 points from 43. Blackburn Rovers went on to finish that season 9th with 67 points, and Nottingham Forest 14th with 59.

Blackburn Rovers lined up in a 4-4-2 and Nottingham Forest in a 4-1-4-1.

Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 2 Blackburn Rovers wins, 1 draw and 2 for Nottingham Forest.

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

Data as of 4 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 3'Goal · Rudy GestedeBlackburn Rovers · 1-0
  • 7'Goal · Michail AntonioNottingham Forest · 1-1
  • 35'Goal · Rudy GestedeBlackburn Rovers · 2-1
  • 45'Goal · Nicolás FrutosNottingham Forest · 2-2
  • 62'Yellow card · D. VaughanNottingham Forest
  • 82'Goal · Rudy GestedeBlackburn Rovers · 3-2
  • 88'Goal · Michail AntonioNottingham Forest · 3-3
  • 90'Yellow card · L. WilliamsonBlackburn Rovers

Head-to-head

5 meetings: Blackburn Rovers 2, draws 1, Nottingham Forest 2.

Team news

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Blackburn Rovers expected line-up (4-4-2)

Grant Hanley, Tommy Spurr, Todd Kane, Scott Dann, Ben Marshall, Jason Lowe, Alan Judge, J. Rhodes, Joshua King

Nottingham Forest expected line-up (4-1-4-1)

Karl Darlow, Eric Lichaj, Danny Fox, Jack Hobbs, Kelvin Wilson, Henri Lansbury, Michael Mancienne, C. Burke, Michail Antonio, Britt Assombalonga