Tranmere Rovers 1-1 Burton Albion: result and report

Carabao Cup · Tuesday 19 August 2025

Result

Tranmere Rovers 1-1 Burton Albion

Carabao Cup · Tuesday 19 August 2025, 18:45 UTC · half-time 1-1

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Tranmere Rovers 1-1 Burton Albion: match report

Tranmere Rovers drew with Burton Albion 1-1 in the Carabao Cup on Tuesday 19 August 2025. The half-time score was 1-1.

Ben Whitfield opened the scoring in the 10th minute. Tranmere Rovers's goal came from Charlie Whitaker (37'). Burton Albion scored through Ben Whitfield (10').

Discipline: Tranmere Rovers received 1 yellow card; Burton Albion received 2 yellow cards.

This fixture belongs to an earlier Carabao Cup season and is kept for reference.

Tranmere Rovers lined up in a 3-4-2-1 and Burton Albion in a 4-3-2-1. The highest match rating in our data went to Jordan Turnbull of Tranmere Rovers (7.5), ahead of Nathan Smith (7.3).

Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 1 Tranmere Rovers win, 0 draws and 3 for Burton Albion.

Data as of 5 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 10'Goal · Ben WhitfieldBurton Albion · 0-1
  • 37'Goal · Charlie WhitakerTranmere Rovers · 1-1
  • 41'Yellow card · Connor JenningsTranmere Rovers
  • 72'Yellow card · J. NewallBurton Albion
  • 90+7'Yellow card · Toby SibbickBurton Albion

Head-to-head

4 meetings: Tranmere Rovers 1, draws 0, Burton Albion 3.

Team news

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

Luke McGee, Jason Lowe, Nathan Smith, Jordan Turnbull, Cameron Norman, Billy Blacker, Richard Smallwood, Ethan Bristow, Charlie Whitaker, Sol Solomon, Connor Jennings

Burton Albion line-up (4-3-2-1)

Kamil Dudek, N. Akoto, G. Bajrami, Finn Delap, J. Taroni, Ben Whitfield, Ciaran Gilligan, Dylan Williams, Julian Larsson, Jack Newall, Tyrese Shade