Blackburn Rovers 1-0 Birmingham City: result and report

Championship · Tuesday 21 October 2014

Result

Blackburn Rovers 1-0 Birmingham City

Championship · Tuesday 21 October 2014, 18:45 UTC · half-time 0-0

Blackburn Rovers · Birmingham City · Championship predictions

Blackburn Rovers 1-0 Birmingham City: match report

Blackburn Rovers defeated Birmingham City 1-0 in the Championship on Tuesday 21 October 2014. The half-time score was 0-0.

The only goal came from Ben Marshall of Blackburn Rovers in the 51st minute.

Discipline: Blackburn Rovers received 2 yellow cards; Birmingham City received 2 yellow cards and 1 red card.

Going into the game Blackburn Rovers were 13th on 16 points from 12 and Birmingham City 21st on 11 points from 12. Blackburn Rovers went on to finish that season 9th with 67 points, and Birmingham City 10th with 63.

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-D-L-D-W and Birmingham City's L-D-W-L-D.

Data as of 4 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 28'Yellow card · Rudy GestedeBlackburn Rovers
  • 51'Goal · Ben MarshallBlackburn Rovers · 1-0
  • 51'Yellow card · Paul CaddisBirmingham City
  • 52'Yellow card · N. EardleyBirmingham City
  • 60'Second yellow · N. EardleyBirmingham City
  • 74'Yellow card · Shane DuffyBlackburn 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