Blackburn Rovers 5-2 Birmingham City: result and report

Blackburn Rovers 5-2 Birmingham City

Championship · Saturday 8 May 2021, 11:30 UTC · half-time 2-1

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Blackburn Rovers beat Birmingham City 5-2 in the Championship on Saturday 8 May 2021. It was 2-1 at half-time.

Kristian Pedersen opened the scoring in the 22nd minute. Blackburn Rovers's goals came from Adam Armstrong (27', penalty), B. Brereton (45+1'), Adam Armstrong (71'), H. Elliott (83') and Adam Armstrong (85'). Birmingham City scored through Kristian Pedersen (22') and Lukas Jutkiewicz (50').

Discipline: Blackburn Rovers received no yellow cards; Birmingham City received 3 yellow cards.

Going into the game Blackburn Rovers were 15th on 54 points from 45 and Birmingham City 18th on 52 points from 45. Blackburn Rovers went on to finish that season 15th with 57 points, and Birmingham City 18th with 52.

Blackburn Rovers lined up in a 4-2-3-1 and Birmingham City in a 4-5-1. The highest match rating in our data went to Adam Armstrong of Blackburn Rovers (8.9), ahead of Josef Dvornik (8.2).

Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 2 Blackburn Rovers wins, 6 draws and 2 for Birmingham City.