Newcastle United 0-1 Blackburn Rovers: result and report
Championship · Saturday 26 November 2016
Result
Newcastle United 0-1 Blackburn Rovers
Championship · Saturday 26 November 2016, 15:00 UTC · half-time 0-0
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Newcastle United 0-1 Blackburn Rovers: match report
Newcastle United were beaten by Blackburn Rovers 0-1 in the Championship on Saturday 26 November 2016. It was 0-0 at half-time.
The only goal came from Charlie Mulgrew of Blackburn Rovers in the 75th minute.
Discipline: Newcastle United received 1 yellow card; Blackburn Rovers received 3 yellow cards.
Going into the game Newcastle United were 1st on 41 points from 17 and Blackburn Rovers 22nd on 16 points from 17. Newcastle United went on to finish that season 1st with 95 points, and Blackburn Rovers 22nd with 51.
Newcastle United lined up in a 4-4-1-1 and Blackburn Rovers in a 4-4-2. The highest match rating in our data went to Charlie Mulgrew of Blackburn Rovers (8.5), ahead of Darragh Lenihan (8.1).
Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 3 Newcastle United wins, 1 draw and 6 for Blackburn Rovers.
Going into the match Newcastle United's last five read W-W-W-W-W and Blackburn Rovers's W-L-D-L-W.
Key events
- 24'Yellow card · Craig Conway
- 68'Yellow card · Jason Lowe
- 75'Goal · Charlie Mulgrew
- 83'Yellow card · Isaac Hayden
- 90+1'Yellow card · Ben Marshall
Head-to-head
Team news
Newcastle United line-up (4-4-1-1)
Karl Darlow, DeAndre Yedlin, Chancel Mbemba, Ciaran Clark, Jesús Gámez, Matt Ritchie, Isaac Hayden, Jonjo Shelvey, Christian Atsu, Ayoze Pérez, Aleksandar Mitrović
Blackburn Rovers line-up (4-4-2)
Jason Steele, Ben Marshall, Darragh Lenihan, Charlie Mulgrew, Derrick Williams, Liam Feeney, Jason Lowe, Josef Dvornik, Craig Conway, Sam Gallagher, Danny Graham