Queens Park Rangers 1-3 Blackburn Rovers: result and report

Championship · Saturday 25 February 2023

Result

Queens Park Rangers 1-3 Blackburn Rovers

Championship · Saturday 25 February 2023, 15:00 UTC · half-time 1-2

Queens Park Rangers · Blackburn Rovers · Championship predictions

Queens Park Rangers 1-3 Blackburn Rovers: match report

Queens Park Rangers were beaten by Blackburn Rovers 1-3 in the Championship on Saturday 25 February 2023. It was 1-2 at half-time.

Sam Gallagher opened the scoring in the 14th minute. Queens Park Rangers's goal came from T. Iroegbunam (24'). Blackburn Rovers scored through Sam Gallagher (14'), S. Szmodics (45+2') and Sam Gallagher (60').

Discipline: Queens Park Rangers received 4 yellow cards; Blackburn Rovers received no yellow cards.

Going into the game Queens Park Rangers were 18th on 39 points from 33 and Blackburn Rovers 4th on 52 points from 33. Queens Park Rangers went on to finish that season 21st with 50 points, and Blackburn Rovers 7th with 69.

Queens Park Rangers lined up in a 4-3-3 and Blackburn Rovers in a 4-2-3-1. The highest match rating in our data went to Sam Gallagher of Blackburn Rovers (8.2), ahead of Callum Brittain (7.8).

Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 3 Queens Park Rangers wins, 0 draws and 7 for Blackburn Rovers.

Data as of 4 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 14'Goal · Sam GallagherBlackburn Rovers · 0-1
  • 24'Goal · T. IroegbunamQueens Park Rangers · 1-1
  • 37'Yellow card · Stefan JohansenQueens Park Rangers
  • 45+2'Goal · S. SzmodicsBlackburn Rovers · 1-2
  • 57'Yellow card · Osman KakayQueens Park Rangers
  • 59'Yellow card · Sam FieldQueens Park Rangers
  • 60'Goal · Sam GallagherBlackburn Rovers · 1-3
  • 66'Yellow card · Jamal LoweQueens Park Rangers

Head-to-head

10 meetings: Queens Park Rangers 3, draws 0, Blackburn Rovers 7.

Team news

Queens Park Rangers line-up (4-3-3)

Seny Dieng, Osman Kakay, Rob Dickie, Jimmy Dunne, Kenneth Paal, Tim Iroegbunam, Stefan Johansen, Sam Field, Jamal Lowe, Chris Martin, Ilias Chair

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

Aynsley Pears, Joe Rankin-Costello, Hayden Carter, Dominic Hyam, Callum Brittain, Lewis Travis, John Buckley, Sorba Thomas, Sammie Szmodics, Tyrhys Dolan, Sam Gallagher