Blackburn Rovers 1-0 Swansea City: result and report

Championship · Saturday 18 February 2023

Result

Blackburn Rovers 1-0 Swansea City

Championship · Saturday 18 February 2023, 15:00 UTC · half-time 0-0

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Blackburn Rovers 1-0 Swansea City: match report

Blackburn Rovers defeated Swansea City 1-0 in the Championship on Saturday 18 February 2023. It was 0-0 at half-time.

The only goal came from Daniel Ayala of Blackburn Rovers in the 89th minute.

Discipline: Blackburn Rovers received 4 yellow cards; Swansea City received 2 yellow cards.

Going into the game Blackburn Rovers were 8th on 46 points from 31 and Swansea City 12th on 42 points from 31. Blackburn Rovers went on to finish that season 7th with 69 points, and Swansea City 10th with 66.

Blackburn Rovers lined up in a 4-2-3-1 and Swansea City in a 3-4-1-2. The highest match rating in our data went to Ryan Manning of Swansea City (8.9), ahead of Yuki Takahashi (7.8).

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

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

Data as of 4 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 15'Yellow card · Sorba ThomasBlackburn Rovers
  • 45'Yellow card · Lewis TravisBlackburn Rovers
  • 51'Yellow card · Joel LatibeaudiereSwansea City
  • 88'Yellow card · Jay FultonSwansea City
  • 89'Goal · Daniel AyalaBlackburn Rovers · 1-0
  • 90+4'Yellow card · Daniel AyalaBlackburn Rovers
  • 90+5'Yellow card · Tyrhys DolanBlackburn Rovers

Head-to-head

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

Team news

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

Aynsley Pears, Sorba Thomas, Hayden Carter, Yuki Takahashi, Dominic Hyam, Harry Pickering, Tyrhys Dolan, John Buckley, Lewis Travis, Ben Brereton Díaz, Sam Gallagher

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

Andy Fisher, Ben Cabango, Nathan Wood, Harry Darling, Joel Latibeaudiere, Joe Allen, Matt Grimes, Ryan Manning, Jay Fulton, Luke Cundle, Joël Piroe