Blackburn Rovers 4-1 Bolton Wanderers: result and report

Championship · Saturday 31 August 2013

Result

Blackburn Rovers 4-1 Bolton Wanderers

Championship · Saturday 31 August 2013, 14:00 UTC · half-time 2-1

Blackburn Rovers · Bolton Wanderers · Championship predictions

Blackburn Rovers 4-1 Bolton Wanderers: match report

Blackburn Rovers beat Bolton Wanderers 4-1 in the Championship on Saturday 31 August 2013. It was 2-1 at half-time.

David Dunn opened the scoring in the 27th minute. Blackburn Rovers's goals came from David Dunn (27'), Jordan Rhodes (28'), Corry Evans (70') and Jordan Rhodes (83'). Bolton Wanderers scored through A. Baptiste (45+1').

Discipline: Blackburn Rovers received 1 yellow card; Bolton Wanderers received 2 yellow cards.

Going into the game Blackburn Rovers were 15th on 4 points from 4 and Bolton Wanderers 21st on 2 points from 4. Blackburn Rovers went on to finish that season 8th with 70 points, and Bolton Wanderers 14th with 57.

Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 3 Blackburn Rovers wins, 2 draws and 5 for Bolton Wanderers.

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

Data as of 4 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 27'Goal · David DunnBlackburn Rovers · 1-0
  • 28'Goal · Jordan RhodesBlackburn Rovers · 2-0
  • 45+1'Goal · A. BaptisteBolton Wanderers · 2-1
  • 52'Yellow card · Grant HanleyBlackburn Rovers
  • 70'Goal · Corry EvansBlackburn Rovers · 3-1
  • 83'Goal · Jordan RhodesBlackburn Rovers · 4-1
  • 89'Yellow card · Craig DaviesBolton Wanderers
  • 90+4'Yellow card · André MoritzBolton Wanderers

Head-to-head

10 meetings: Blackburn Rovers 3, draws 2, Bolton Wanderers 5.

Team news

Blackburn Rovers expected line-up (4-5-1)

J. Kean, Scott Dann, Grant Hanley, Todd Kane, Tommy Spurr, Jason Lowe, Danny Murphy, Joshua King, Alan Judge, J. Rhodes, Colin Kazim-Richards

Bolton Wanderers expected line-up

Ádám Bogdán, Zat Knight, Marcos Alonso, Craig Dawson, Chung-yong Lee, Darren Pratley, Jay Spearing, Chris Eagles, David N'Gog, Craig Davies, Samuel Ricketts