Blackburn Rovers 2-3 Birmingham City: result and report

Championship · Sunday 29 December 2013

Result

Blackburn Rovers 2-3 Birmingham City

Championship · Sunday 29 December 2013, 15:00 UTC · half-time 0-3

Blackburn Rovers · Birmingham City · Championship predictions

Blackburn Rovers 2-3 Birmingham City: match report

Blackburn Rovers were beaten by Birmingham City 2-3 in the Championship on Sunday 29 December 2013. It was 0-3 at half-time.

Lee Novak opened the scoring in the 12th minute. Blackburn Rovers's goals came from Jordan Rhodes (66') and Jordan Rhodes (72'). Birmingham City scored through Lee Novak (12'), Lee Novak (18') and C. Burke (36').

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

Going into the game Blackburn Rovers were 11th on 31 points from 22 and Birmingham City 15th on 26 points from 22. Blackburn Rovers went on to finish that season 8th with 70 points, and Birmingham City 21st with 45.

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

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

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

Data as of 4 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 12'Goal · Lee NovakBirmingham City · 0-1
  • 18'Goal · Lee NovakBirmingham City · 0-2
  • 35'Yellow card · Lee NovakBirmingham City
  • 36'Goal · C. BurkeBirmingham City · 0-3
  • 40'Yellow card · L. WilliamsonBlackburn Rovers
  • 66'Goal · Jordan RhodesBlackburn Rovers · 1-3
  • 67'Yellow card · Nikola ZigicBirmingham City
  • 72'Goal · Jordan RhodesBlackburn Rovers · 2-3
  • 90+1'Yellow card · Jason LoweBlackburn Rovers

Head-to-head

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

Team news

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

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