Birmingham City 2-4 Blackburn Rovers: result and report

Championship · Monday 21 April 2014

Result

Birmingham City 2-4 Blackburn Rovers

Championship · Monday 21 April 2014, 14:00 UTC · half-time 0-4

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Birmingham City 2-4 Blackburn Rovers: match report

Birmingham City were beaten by Blackburn Rovers 2-4 in the Championship on Monday 21 April 2014. It was 0-4 at half-time.

Rudy Gestede opened the scoring in the 10th minute. Birmingham City's goals came from Nikola Zigic (63') and Demarai Gray (84'). Blackburn Rovers scored through Rudy Gestede (10'), Rudy Gestede (20'), Todd Kane (24') and Rudy Gestede (45+3').

Discipline: Birmingham City received 3 yellow cards; Blackburn Rovers received 1 yellow card.

Going into the game Birmingham City were 18th on 44 points from 42 and Blackburn Rovers 11th on 61 points from 43. Birmingham City went on to finish that season 21st with 45 points, and Blackburn Rovers 8th with 70.

Birmingham City lined up in a 4-5-1 and Blackburn Rovers in a 4-4-1-1.

Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 4 Birmingham City wins, 3 draws and 3 for Blackburn Rovers.

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

Data as of 4 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 10'Goal · Rudy GestedeBlackburn Rovers · 0-1
  • 20'Goal · Rudy GestedeBlackburn Rovers · 0-2
  • 24'Goal · Todd KaneBlackburn Rovers · 0-3
  • 45+3'Goal · Rudy GestedeBlackburn Rovers · 0-4
  • 60'Yellow card · Federico MachedaBirmingham City
  • 63'Goal · Nikola ZigicBirmingham City · 1-4
  • 70'Yellow card · C. ReillyBirmingham City
  • 74'Yellow card · Grant HanleyBlackburn Rovers
  • 84'Goal · Demarai GrayBirmingham City · 2-4
  • 88'Yellow card · Nikola ZigicBirmingham City

Head-to-head

10 meetings: Birmingham City 4, draws 3, Blackburn Rovers 3.

Team news

Birmingham City expected line-up (4-5-1)

Darren Randolph, Paul Robinson, Dan Burn, Paul Caddis, Jesse Lingard, C. Burke, Tom Adeyemi, Andrew Shinnie, Oliver Lee, Nikola Zigic

Blackburn Rovers expected line-up (4-4-1-1)

J. Kean, Scott Dann, Grant Hanley, Jason Lowe, Tommy Spurr, Todd Kane, Tom Cairney, J. Rhodes, Joshua King, Leon Best