Cardiff City 0-1 Blackburn Rovers: result and report
Championship · Saturday 15 January 2022
Result
Cardiff City 0-1 Blackburn Rovers
Championship · Saturday 15 January 2022, 12:30 UTC · half-time 0-1
Cardiff City 0-1 Blackburn Rovers: match report
Cardiff City lost to Blackburn Rovers 0-1 in the Championship on Saturday 15 January 2022. The half-time score was 0-1.
The only goal came from Joe Rothwell of Blackburn Rovers in the 14th minute.
Discipline: Cardiff City received 5 yellow cards; Blackburn Rovers received 5 yellow cards and 1 red card.
Going into the game Cardiff City were 22nd on 23 points from 24 and Blackburn Rovers 3rd on 46 points from 25. Cardiff City went on to finish that season 19th with 53 points, and Blackburn Rovers 8th with 69.
Cardiff City lined up in a 5-3-2 and Blackburn Rovers in a 3-4-1-2. The highest match rating in our data went to Jan Paul van Hecke of Blackburn Rovers (7.8), level with Joe Ralls (7.8).
Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 2 Cardiff City wins, 6 draws and 2 for Blackburn Rovers.
Going into the match Cardiff City's last five read D-L-D-L-W and Blackburn Rovers's D-W-W-W-W.
Key events
- 14'Goal · Joe Rothwell
- 40'Yellow card · C. Drameh
- 42'Yellow card · J. van Hecke
- 50'Yellow card · Lewis Travis
- 56'Yellow card · Darragh Lenihan
- 59'Yellow card · P. Ng
- 60'Yellow card · Ryan Nyambe
- 73'Yellow card · James Collins
- 76'Second yellow · Ryan Nyambe
- 90+2'Yellow card · Thomas Kaminski
- 90+4'Yellow card · Marlon Pack
- 90+5'Yellow card · Marlon Pack
Head-to-head
Team news
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Cardiff City line-up (5-3-2)
Alex Smithies, Cody Drameh, Mark McGuinness, Aden Flint, Curtis Nelson, Perry Ng, Will Vaulks, Ryan Wintle, Joe Ralls, James Collins, Mark Harris
Blackburn Rovers line-up (3-4-1-2)
Thomas Kaminski, Darragh Lenihan, Jan Paul van Hecke, Scott Wharton, Ryan Nyambe, Joe Rothwell, Lewis Travis, Tayo Edun, John Buckley, Reda Khadra, Ben Brereton Díaz