Blackburn Rovers 1-1 Sheffield Wednesday: result and report

Championship · Saturday 26 December 2020

Result

Blackburn Rovers 1-1 Sheffield Wednesday

Championship · Saturday 26 December 2020, 15:00 UTC · half-time 0-1

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Blackburn Rovers 1-1 Sheffield Wednesday: match report

Blackburn Rovers drew with Sheffield Wednesday 1-1 in the Championship on Saturday 26 December 2020. It was 0-1 at half-time.

Adam Reach opened the scoring in the 41st minute. Blackburn Rovers's goal came from Joe Rothwell (76'). Sheffield Wednesday scored through Adam Reach (41').

Discipline: Blackburn Rovers received 1 yellow card; Sheffield Wednesday received no yellow cards.

Going into the game Blackburn Rovers were 11th on 28 points from 20 and Sheffield Wednesday 20th on 18 points from 20. Blackburn Rovers went on to finish that season 15th with 57 points, and Sheffield Wednesday 21st with 47.

Blackburn Rovers lined up in a 4-3-3 and Sheffield Wednesday in a 5-4-1. The highest match rating in our data went to Joe Rothwell of Blackburn Rovers (7.8), ahead of Yuki Takahashi (7.3).

Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 4 Blackburn Rovers wins, 1 draw and 5 for Sheffield Wednesday.

Data as of 4 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 41'Goal · Adam ReachSheffield Wednesday · 0-1
  • 76'Goal · Joe RothwellBlackburn Rovers · 1-1
  • 79'Yellow card · Darragh LenihanBlackburn Rovers

Head-to-head

10 meetings: Blackburn Rovers 4, draws 1, Sheffield Wednesday 5.

Team news

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

Thomas Kaminski, Ryan Nyambe, Darragh Lenihan, Yuki Takahashi, B. Douglas, Lewis Holtby, Bradley Johnson, Joe Rothwell, Harvey Elliott, Sam Gallagher, Adam Armstrong

Sheffield Wednesday line-up (5-4-1)

Keiren Westwood, Liam Palmer, Tom Lees, Chey Dunkley, Joost van Aken, Moses Odubajo, Adam Reach, Joey Pelupessy, Callum Paterson, Barry Bannan, Josh Windass