Blackburn Rovers 1-1 Birmingham City: result and report
Championship · Saturday 21 January 2017
Result
Blackburn Rovers 1-1 Birmingham City
Championship · Saturday 21 January 2017, 15:00 UTC · half-time 1-1
Blackburn Rovers · Birmingham City · Championship predictions
Blackburn Rovers 1-1 Birmingham City: match report
Blackburn Rovers drew with Birmingham City 1-1 in the Championship on Saturday 21 January 2017. The half-time score was 1-1.
Lukas Jutkiewicz opened the scoring in the 3rd minute. Blackburn Rovers's goal came from Danny Graham (45+3'). Birmingham City scored through Lukas Jutkiewicz (3', penalty).
Discipline: Blackburn Rovers received 1 yellow card; Birmingham City received 3 yellow cards.
Going into the game Blackburn Rovers were 22nd on 24 points from 26 and Birmingham City 12th on 36 points from 26. Blackburn Rovers went on to finish that season 22nd with 51 points, and Birmingham City 19th with 53.
Blackburn Rovers lined up in a 4-4-2 and Birmingham City in a 4-1-4-1. The highest match rating in our data went to Jonathan Grounds of Birmingham City (7.7), ahead of Darragh Lenihan (7.5).
Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 3 Blackburn Rovers wins, 5 draws and 2 for Birmingham City.
Key events
- 3'Penalty goal · Lukas Jutkiewicz
- 39'Yellow card · Michael Morrison
- 45+3'Goal · Danny Graham
- 49'Yellow card · Darragh Lenihan
- 53'Yellow card · David Davis
- 55'Yellow card · Stephen Gleeson
Head-to-head
Team news
Blackburn Rovers line-up (4-4-2)
Jason Steele, Darragh Lenihan, Gordon Greer, Charlie Mulgrew, Derrick Williams, Liam Feeney, Jason Lowe, Hope Akpan, Elliott Bennett, Sam Gallagher, Danny Graham
Birmingham City line-up (4-1-4-1)
Tomasz Kuszczak, Josh Dacres-Cogley, Michael Morrison, Ryan Shotton, Jonathan Grounds, Stephen Gleeson, David Cotterill, David Davis, Craig Gardner, Ché Adams, Lukas Jutkiewicz