Cardiff City 1-0 Blackburn Rovers: result and report
Championship · Saturday 2 January 2016
Result
Cardiff City 1-0 Blackburn Rovers
Championship · Saturday 2 January 2016, 15:00 UTC · half-time 0-0
Cardiff City 1-0 Blackburn Rovers: match report
Cardiff City beat Blackburn Rovers 1-0 in the Championship on Saturday 2 January 2016. It was 0-0 at half-time.
The only goal came from Joe Mason of Cardiff City in the 58th minute.
Discipline: Cardiff City received 1 yellow card; Blackburn Rovers received 2 yellow cards.
Going into the game Cardiff City were 10th on 34 points from 24 and Blackburn Rovers 16th on 28 points from 23. Cardiff City went on to finish that season 8th with 68 points, and Blackburn Rovers 15th with 55.
Cardiff City lined up in a 4-4-2 and Blackburn Rovers in a 4-4-2.
Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 3 Cardiff City wins, 3 draws and 0 for Blackburn Rovers.
Going into the match Cardiff City's last five read D-L-L-W-D and Blackburn Rovers's L-L-D-W-W.
Key events
- 39'Yellow card · Hope Akpan
- 58'Goal · Joe Mason
- 62'Yellow card · J. Ralls
- 67'Yellow card · Shane Duffy
Head-to-head
Team news
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Cardiff City expected line-up (4-4-2)
Txiki Acaz, Sean Morrison, Fábio, John Brayford, Peter Whittingham, Joe Ralls, Anthony Pilkington, Kenwyne Jones
Blackburn Rovers expected line-up (4-4-2)
Grant Hanley, Shane Duffy, Tommy Spurr, Jason Lowe, Ben Marshall, Josef Dvornik, Tom Cairney, Ryan Tunnicliffe, J. Rhodes, Craig Conway, Rudy Gestede