Cardiff City 1-3 Blackburn Rovers: result and report

Championship · Saturday 9 November 2024

Result

Cardiff City 1-3 Blackburn Rovers

Championship · Saturday 9 November 2024, 12:30 UTC · half-time 0-1

Cardiff City · Blackburn Rovers · Championship predictions

Cardiff City 1-3 Blackburn Rovers: match report

Cardiff City were beaten by Blackburn Rovers 1-3 in the Championship on Saturday 9 November 2024. It was 0-1 at half-time.

Andreas Weimann opened the scoring in the 15th minute. Cardiff City's goal came from David Turnbull (73'). Blackburn Rovers scored through Andreas Weimann (15'), Andreas Weimann (54') and Lewis Baker (86').

Discipline: Cardiff City received no yellow cards; Blackburn Rovers received 3 yellow cards.

Going into the game Cardiff City were 21st on 15 points from 14 and Blackburn Rovers 10th on 19 points from 14. Cardiff City went on to finish that season 24th with 44 points, and Blackburn Rovers 7th with 66.

Cardiff City lined up in a 4-2-3-1 and Blackburn Rovers in a 4-2-3-1. The highest match rating in our data went to Andreas Weimann of Blackburn Rovers (8.8), ahead of Aynsley Pears (8.7).

Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 1 Cardiff City win, 3 draws and 6 for Blackburn Rovers.

Data as of 4 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 15'Goal · Andreas WeimannBlackburn Rovers · 0-1
  • 37'Yellow card · Aynsley PearsBlackburn Rovers
  • 54'Goal · Andreas WeimannBlackburn Rovers · 0-2
  • 72'Yellow card · Joe Rankin-CostelloBlackburn Rovers
  • 73'Missed penalty · David TurnbullCardiff City
  • 73'Goal · David TurnbullCardiff City · 1-2
  • 86'Goal · Lewis BakerBlackburn Rovers · 1-3
  • 90+4'Yellow card · John BuckleyBlackburn Rovers

Head-to-head

10 meetings: Cardiff City 1, draws 3, Blackburn Rovers 6.

Team news

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Cardiff City line-up (4-2-3-1)

Jak Alnwick, Perry Ng, Dimitrios Goutas, Jesper Daland, Callum O'Dowda, Alex Robertson, David Turnbull, Ollie Tanner, Rubin Colwill, Anwar El Ghazi, Chris Willock

Blackburn Rovers line-up (4-2-3-1)

Aynsley Pears, Callum Brittain, Dominic Hyam, Danny Batth, Harry Pickering, Lewis Travis, Sondre Tronstad, Andreas Weimann, Todd Cantwell, Ryan Hedges, Yuki Ohashi