Coventry City 3-0 Blackburn Rovers: result and report

Championship · Tuesday 1 October 2024

Result

Coventry City 3-0 Blackburn Rovers

Championship · Tuesday 1 October 2024, 18:45 UTC · half-time 1-0

Coventry City · Blackburn Rovers · Championship predictions

Coventry City 3-0 Blackburn Rovers: match report

Coventry City beat Blackburn Rovers 3-0 in the Championship on Tuesday 1 October 2024. It was 1-0 at half-time.

Jake Bidwell opened the scoring in the 11th minute. Coventry City's goals came from Jake Bidwell (11'), Haji Wright (48') and Brandon Thomas-Asante (84'). Blackburn Rovers did not score.

Discipline: Coventry City received 1 yellow card; Blackburn Rovers received 6 yellow cards.

Going into the game Coventry City were 21st on 5 points from 7 and Blackburn Rovers 2nd on 15 points from 7. Coventry City went on to finish that season 5th with 72 points, and Blackburn Rovers 7th with 66.

Coventry 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 Jake Bidwell of Coventry City (7.9), level with Jack Rudoni (7.9).

Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 2 Coventry City wins, 5 draws and 1 for Blackburn Rovers.

Data as of 4 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 11'Goal · Jake BidwellCoventry City · 1-0
  • 48'Goal · Haji WrightCoventry City · 2-0
  • 58'Yellow cardBlackburn Rovers
  • 58'Yellow cardCoventry City
  • 60'Yellow cardBlackburn Rovers
  • 61'Yellow card · Todd CantwellBlackburn Rovers
  • 67'Yellow card · Hayden CarterBlackburn Rovers
  • 81'Yellow cardBlackburn Rovers
  • 81'Yellow card · John BuckleyBlackburn Rovers
  • 84'Goal · Brandon Thomas-AsanteCoventry City · 3-0

Head-to-head

8 meetings: Coventry City 2, draws 5, Blackburn Rovers 1.

Team news

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

Ben Wilson, Milan van Ewijk, Bobby Thomas, Liam Kitching, Jake Bidwell, Josh Eccles, Ben Sheaf, Tatsuhiro Sakamoto, Jack Rudoni, Haji Wright, Brandon Thomas-Asante

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

Aynsley Pears, Hayden Carter, Danny Batth, Dominic Hyam, Harry Pickering, Sondre Tronstad, Lewis Travis, Andreas Weimann, Todd Cantwell, Tyrhys Dolan, Yuki Ohashi