Blackburn Rovers 2-1 Birmingham City: result and report

Championship · Saturday 22 October 2022

Result

Blackburn Rovers 2-1 Birmingham City

Championship · Saturday 22 October 2022, 14:00 UTC · half-time 2-0

Blackburn Rovers · Birmingham City · Championship predictions

Blackburn Rovers 2-1 Birmingham City: match report

Blackburn Rovers beat Birmingham City 2-1 in the Championship on Saturday 22 October 2022. It was 2-0 at half-time.

Sam Gallagher opened the scoring in the 17th minute. Blackburn Rovers's goals came from Sam Gallagher (17') and A. Wharton (42'). Birmingham City scored through Scott Hogan (80').

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

Going into the game Blackburn Rovers were 2nd on 27 points from 16 and Birmingham City 14th on 20 points from 15. Blackburn Rovers went on to finish that season 7th with 69 points, and Birmingham City 17th with 53.

Blackburn Rovers lined up in a 3-4-1-2 and Birmingham City in a 3-5-2. The highest match rating in our data went to Juninho Bacuna of Birmingham City (8.4), ahead of Lukas Jutkiewicz (8.1).

Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 4 Blackburn Rovers wins, 4 draws and 2 for Birmingham City.

Data as of 4 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 17'Goal · Sam GallagherBlackburn Rovers · 1-0
  • 42'Goal · A. WhartonBlackburn Rovers · 2-0
  • 48'Yellow card · Dion SandersonBirmingham City
  • 80'Goal · Scott HoganBirmingham City · 2-1
  • 90+3'Yellow card · J. ValeBlackburn Rovers

Head-to-head

10 meetings: Blackburn Rovers 4, draws 4, Birmingham City 2.

Team news

Blackburn Rovers line-up (3-4-1-2)

Thomas Kaminski, Hayden Carter, Dominic Hyam, Scott Wharton, Ryan Hedges, Lewis Travis, Tyler Morton, Harry Pickering, Adam Wharton, Ben Brereton Díaz, Sam Gallagher

Birmingham City line-up (3-5-2)

John Ruddy, Dion Sanderson, Harlee Dean, Auston Trusty, Maxime Colin, George Hall, Krystian Bielik, Juninho Bacuna, Emmanuel Longelo, Scott Hogan, Tahith Chong