Blackburn Rovers 3-1 Sheffield United: result and report
Championship · Saturday 6 November 2021
Result
Blackburn Rovers 3-1 Sheffield United
Championship · Saturday 6 November 2021, 15:00 UTC · half-time 1-1
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Blackburn Rovers 3-1 Sheffield United: match report
Blackburn Rovers defeated Sheffield United 3-1 in the Championship on Saturday 6 November 2021. It was 1-1 at half-time.
R. Brewster opened the scoring in the 2nd minute. Blackburn Rovers's goals came from R. Khadra (37'), B. Brereton (59') and Ian Poveda (70'). Sheffield United scored through R. Brewster (2').
Discipline: Blackburn Rovers received 1 yellow card; Sheffield United received 3 yellow cards.
Going into the game Blackburn Rovers were 12th on 23 points from 16 and Sheffield United 16th on 19 points from 16. Blackburn Rovers went on to finish that season 8th with 69 points, and Sheffield United 5th with 78.
Blackburn Rovers lined up in a 4-4-1-1 and Sheffield United in a 4-2-3-1. The highest match rating in our data went to Ian Poveda of Blackburn Rovers (8.7), ahead of John Buckley (7.7).
Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 1 Blackburn Rovers win, 1 draw and 3 for Sheffield United.
Key events
- 2'Goal · R. Brewster
- 5'Yellow card · Jayden Bogle
- 24'Yellow card · John Fleck
- 37'Goal · R. Khadra
- 59'Goal · B. Brereton
- 70'Goal · Ian Poveda
- 76'Yellow card · Darragh Lenihan
- 80'Yellow card · Oliver Norwood
Head-to-head
Team news
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Blackburn Rovers line-up (4-4-1-1)
Thomas Kaminski, Ryan Nyambe, Darragh Lenihan, Scott Wharton, Tayo Edun, Ian Poveda, Lewis Travis, Jacob Davenport, Reda Khadra, John Buckley, Ben Brereton Díaz
Sheffield United line-up (4-2-3-1)
Robin Olsen, Jayden Bogle, Chris Basham, John Egan, Enda Stevens, Oliver Norwood, John Fleck, Rhian Brewster, Morgan Gibbs-White, Ben Osborn, Patrick McCarthy