Coventry City 2-0 Blackburn Rovers: result and report
Championship · Saturday 18 October 2025
Result
Coventry City 2-0 Blackburn Rovers
Championship · Saturday 18 October 2025, 14:00 UTC · half-time 0-0
Coventry City 2-0 Blackburn Rovers: match report
Coventry City defeated Blackburn Rovers 2-0 in the Championship on Saturday 18 October 2025. It was 0-0 at half-time.
Victor Torp opened the scoring in the 57th minute. Coventry City's goals came from Victor Torp (57') and Brandon Thomas-Asante (59'). Blackburn Rovers did not score.
Discipline: Coventry City received no yellow cards; Blackburn Rovers received 2 yellow cards.
Going into the game Coventry City were 2nd on 19 points from 9 and Blackburn Rovers 22nd on 7 points from 8. Coventry City went on to finish that season 1st with 95 points, and Blackburn Rovers 22nd with 52.
Coventry City lined up in a 4-2-3-1 and Blackburn Rovers in a 3-4-1-2. The highest match rating in our data went to Brandon Thomas-Asante of Coventry City (8.1), ahead of Victor Torp (7.8).
Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 4 Coventry City wins, 5 draws and 1 for Blackburn Rovers.
Key events
- 18'Yellow card · Sondre Tronstad
- 56'Yellow card · Ryan Hedges
- 57'Goal · Victor Torp
- 59'Goal · Brandon Thomas-Asante
Head-to-head
Team news
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Coventry City line-up (4-2-3-1)
Carl Rushworth, Milan van Ewijk, Bobby Thomas, Liam Kitching, Jay Dasilva, Victor Torp, Matt Grimes, Tatsuhiro Sakamoto, Brandon Thomas-Asante, Ephron Mason-Clark, Haji Wright
Blackburn Rovers line-up (3-4-1-2)
Balázs Tóth, Lewis Miller, Scott Wharton, Sean McLoughlin, Ryan Alebiosu, Sondre Tronstad, Taylor Gardner-Hickman, Ryan Hedges, Axel Henriksson, Yuki Ohashi, Andri Gudjohnsen