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.

Data as of 4 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 2'Goal · R. BrewsterSheffield United · 0-1
  • 5'Yellow card · Jayden BogleSheffield United
  • 24'Yellow card · John FleckSheffield United
  • 37'Goal · R. KhadraBlackburn Rovers · 1-1
  • 59'Goal · B. BreretonBlackburn Rovers · 2-1
  • 70'Goal · Ian PovedaBlackburn Rovers · 3-1
  • 76'Yellow card · Darragh LenihanBlackburn Rovers
  • 80'Yellow card · Oliver NorwoodSheffield United

Head-to-head

5 meetings: Blackburn Rovers 1, draws 1, Sheffield United 3.

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