Cardiff City 3-0 Blackburn Rovers: result and report

Championship · Monday 1 April 2013

Result

Cardiff City 3-0 Blackburn Rovers

Championship · Monday 1 April 2013, 14:00 UTC · half-time 1-0

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Cardiff City 3-0 Blackburn Rovers: match report

Cardiff City defeated Blackburn Rovers 3-0 in the Championship on Monday 1 April 2013. The half-time score was 1-0.

Fraizer Campbell opened the scoring in the 40th minute. Cardiff City's goals came from Fraizer Campbell (40'), Joe Mason (86') and Peter Whittingham (90+6', penalty). Blackburn Rovers did not score.

Discipline: Cardiff City received no yellow cards; Blackburn Rovers received 4 yellow cards.

Going into the game Cardiff City were 1st on 75 points from 38 and Blackburn Rovers 18th on 47 points from 38. Cardiff City went on to finish that season 1st with 87 points, and Blackburn Rovers 17th with 58.

Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 2 Cardiff City wins, 0 draws and 0 for Blackburn Rovers.

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

Data as of 4 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 33'Yellow card · Leon BestBlackburn Rovers
  • 40'Goal · Fraizer CampbellCardiff City · 1-0
  • 40'Yellow card · Jake KeanBlackburn Rovers
  • 79'Yellow card · Colin Kazim-RichardsBlackburn Rovers
  • 86'Goal · Joe MasonCardiff City · 2-0
  • 90+4'Yellow card · S. DannBlackburn Rovers
  • 90+6'Penalty goal · Peter WhittinghamCardiff City · 3-0

Head-to-head

2 meetings: Cardiff City 2, draws 0, Blackburn Rovers 0.

Team news

Cardiff City line-up

Txiki Acaz, Andrew Taylor, Ben Turner, Matthew Connolly, Leon Barnett, Craig Conway, Bo-kyung Kim, Aron Gunnarsson, Jordon Mutch, Craig Bellamy, Fraizer Campbell

Blackburn Rovers line-up

Scott Dann, Todd Kane, Grant Hanley, Morten Gamst Pedersen, Danny Murphy, Josh Morris, Daniel Bentley, Leon Best, Colin Kazim-Richards, J. Kean, David Jones