Blackburn Rovers 1-1 Watford: result and report
Championship · Saturday 24 January 2026
Result
Blackburn Rovers 1-1 Watford
Championship · Saturday 24 January 2026, 15:00 UTC · half-time 1-1
Blackburn Rovers 1-1 Watford: match report
Blackburn Rovers drew with Watford 1-1 in the Championship on Saturday 24 January 2026. It was 1-1 at half-time.
Edo Kayembe opened the scoring in the 26th minute. Blackburn Rovers's goal came from Lewis Miller (28'). Watford scored through Edo Kayembe (26').
Discipline: Blackburn Rovers received no yellow cards; Watford received 2 yellow cards.
Going into the game Blackburn Rovers were 22nd on 28 points from 27 and Watford 7th on 42 points from 27. Blackburn Rovers went on to finish that season 22nd with 52 points, and Watford 16th with 57.
Blackburn Rovers lined up in a 4-2-3-1 and Watford in a 4-2-3-1. The highest match rating in our data went to Edo Kayembe of Watford (8.0), ahead of Eiran Cashin (7.5).
Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 4 Blackburn Rovers wins, 1 draw and 5 for Watford.
Going into the match Blackburn Rovers's last five read L-L-D-L-D and Watford's D-L-W-W-W.
Key events
- 26'Goal · Edo Kayembe
- 28'Goal · Lewis Miller
- 45+2'Yellow card · Hector Kyprianou
- 90+3'Yellow card · Edo Kayembe
Head-to-head
Team news
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Blackburn Rovers line-up (4-2-3-1)
Balázs Tóth, Lewis Miller, Connor O'Riordan, Sean McLoughlin, Eiran Cashin, Adam Forshaw, Sondre Tronstad, Mathias Jørgensen, Todd Cantwell, Ryoya Morishita, Yuki Ohashi
Watford line-up (4-2-3-1)
Egil Selvik, Jeremy Ngakia, Kévin Keben, James Abankwah, Marc Bola, Hector Kyprianou, Edo Kayembe, Othmane Maamma, Mamadou Doumbia, Rocco Vata, Luca Kjerrumgaard