Blackburn Rovers 1-1 Wolverhampton Wanderers: result and report

Championship · Saturday 29 October 2016

Result

Blackburn Rovers 1-1 Wolverhampton Wanderers

Championship · Saturday 29 October 2016, 16:30 UTC · half-time 1-0

Blackburn Rovers · Wolverhampton Wanderers · Championship predictions

Blackburn Rovers 1-1 Wolverhampton Wanderers: match report

Blackburn Rovers drew with Wolverhampton Wanderers 1-1 in the Championship on Saturday 29 October 2016. It was 1-0 at half-time.

Sam Gallagher opened the scoring in the 13th minute. Blackburn Rovers's goal came from Sam Gallagher (13'). Wolverhampton Wanderers scored through D. Edwards (78').

Discipline: Blackburn Rovers received 2 yellow cards; Wolverhampton Wanderers received 2 yellow cards.

Going into the game Blackburn Rovers were 23rd on 12 points from 14 and Wolverhampton Wanderers 20th on 16 points from 14. Blackburn Rovers went on to finish that season 22nd with 51 points, and Wolverhampton Wanderers 14th with 58.

Blackburn Rovers lined up in a 4-4-2 and Wolverhampton Wanderers in a 4-3-3. The highest match rating in our data went to Sam Gallagher of Blackburn Rovers (7.8), level with Conor Coady (7.8).

Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 3 Blackburn Rovers wins, 2 draws and 5 for Wolverhampton Wanderers.

Data as of 4 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 13'Goal · Sam GallagherBlackburn Rovers · 1-0
  • 26'Yellow card · D. BatthWolverhampton Wanderers
  • 58'Yellow card · Ben MarshallBlackburn Rovers
  • 67'Yellow card · João TeixeiraWolverhampton Wanderers
  • 75'Yellow card · Danny GuthrieBlackburn Rovers
  • 78'Goal · D. EdwardsWolverhampton Wanderers · 1-1

Head-to-head

10 meetings: Blackburn Rovers 3, draws 2, Wolverhampton Wanderers 5.

Team news

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

Jason Steele, Jason Lowe, Gordon Greer, Darragh Lenihan, Charlie Mulgrew, Ben Marshall, Danny Guthrie, Josef Dvornik, Craig Conway, Sam Gallagher, Marvin Emnes

Wolverhampton Wanderers line-up (4-3-3)

Carl Ikeme, Matt Doherty, Danny Batth, Kortney Hause, Cameron Borthwick-Jackson, Conor Coady, Romain Saïss, Dave Edwards, Hélder Costa, J. Böðvarsson, Jed Wallace