Stoke City 1-0 Blackburn Rovers: result and report

Championship · Wednesday 12 March 2025

Result

Stoke City 1-0 Blackburn Rovers

Championship · Wednesday 12 March 2025, 20:00 UTC · half-time 1-0

Stoke City · Blackburn Rovers · Championship predictions

Stoke City 1-0 Blackburn Rovers: match report

Stoke City won against Blackburn Rovers 1-0 in the Championship on Wednesday 12 March 2025. The half-time score was 1-0.

The only goal came from Ali Al-Hamadi of Stoke City in the 19th minute.

Discipline: Stoke City received 2 yellow cards; Blackburn Rovers received 2 yellow cards.

Going into the game Stoke City were 20th on 36 points from 36 and Blackburn Rovers 9th on 52 points from 36. Stoke City went on to finish that season 18th with 51 points, and Blackburn Rovers 7th with 66.

Stoke City lined up in a 4-2-3-1 and Blackburn Rovers in a 3-4-3. The highest match rating in our data went to Ali Al-Hamadi of Stoke City (7.9), ahead of Ben Wilmot (7.6).

Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 5 Stoke City wins, 2 draws and 3 for Blackburn Rovers.

Going into the match Stoke City's last five read L-D-L-L-W and Blackburn Rovers's L-D-L-W-W.

Data as of 4 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 19'Goal · Ali Al-HamadiStoke City · 1-0
  • 46'Yellow card · Makhtar GueyeBlackburn Rovers
  • 78'Yellow card · Lewis TravisBlackburn Rovers
  • 82'Yellow card · Sam GallagherStoke City
  • 90+1'Yellow card · Jordan Andrew ThompsonStoke City

Head-to-head

10 meetings: Stoke City 5, draws 2, Blackburn Rovers 3.

Team news

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

Viktor Johansson, Junior Tchamadeu, Ashley Phillips, Ben Wilmot, Eric-Junior Bocat, Jordan Thompson, Wouter Burger, Million Manhoef, Lewis Baker, Jun-ho Bae, Ali Al-Hamadi

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

Aynsley Pears, Dion Sanderson, Dominic Hyam, Hayden Carter, Callum Brittain, Adam Forshaw, Lewis Travis, Yuri Ribeiro, Tyrhys Dolan, Makhtar Gueye, Todd Cantwell