Barnsley 1-3 Blackburn Rovers: result and report

Championship · Saturday 29 December 2012

Result

Barnsley 1-3 Blackburn Rovers

Championship · Saturday 29 December 2012, 15:00 UTC · half-time 0-2

Barnsley · Blackburn Rovers · Championship predictions

Barnsley 1-3 Blackburn Rovers: match report

Barnsley lost to Blackburn Rovers 1-3 in the Championship on Saturday 29 December 2012. The half-time score was 0-2.

Joshua King opened the scoring in the 29th minute. Barnsley's goal came from Stephen Dawson (76'). Blackburn Rovers scored through Joshua King (29'), Rubén Rochina (44') and Jordan Rhodes (90+8').

Discipline: Barnsley received 1 yellow card; Blackburn Rovers received 2 yellow cards.

Going into the game Barnsley were 23rd on 21 points from 24 and Blackburn Rovers 17th on 29 points from 23. Barnsley went on to finish that season 21st with 55 points, and Blackburn Rovers 17th with 58.

Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 0 Barnsley wins, 0 draws and 1 for Blackburn Rovers.

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

Data as of 4 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 29'Goal · Joshua KingBlackburn Rovers · 0-1
  • 32'Yellow card · Joshua KingBlackburn Rovers
  • 44'Goal · Rubén RochinaBlackburn Rovers · 0-2
  • 45+2'Yellow card · Simon VukcevicBlackburn Rovers
  • 49'Yellow card · Jim McNultyBarnsley
  • 76'Goal · Stephen DawsonBarnsley · 1-2
  • 90+8'Goal · Jordan RhodesBlackburn Rovers · 1-3

Head-to-head

1 meetings: Barnsley 0, draws 0, Blackburn Rovers 1.

Team news

Barnsley expected line-up (4-4-2)

Luke Steele, Stephen Foster, Scott Golbourne, Martin Cranie, John Stones, Stephen Dawson, Jonathan Greening, Tomasz Cywka, Ákos Buzsáky, Jim O'Brien, Marcus Tudgay

Blackburn Rovers expected line-up

Paul Robinson, Martin Olsson, Scott Dann, Grant Hanley, Adam Henley, Mauro Formica, Danny Murphy, J. Rhodes