Blackburn Rovers 2-3 Brentford: result and report

Championship · Tuesday 17 March 2015

Result

Blackburn Rovers 2-3 Brentford

Championship · Tuesday 17 March 2015, 19:45 UTC · half-time 2-1

Blackburn Rovers · Brentford · Championship predictions

Blackburn Rovers 2-3 Brentford: match report

Blackburn Rovers were beaten by Brentford 2-3 in the Championship on Tuesday 17 March 2015. It was 2-1 at half-time.

Rudy Gestede opened the scoring in the 5th minute. Blackburn Rovers's goals came from Rudy Gestede (5') and C. Taylor (45+3'). Brentford scored through Chris Long (44'), Jota Peleteiro (52') and Andre Gray (84').

Discipline: Blackburn Rovers received no yellow cards; Brentford received 2 yellow cards.

Going into the game Blackburn Rovers were 10th on 54 points from 37 and Brentford 6th on 62 points from 37. Blackburn Rovers went on to finish that season 9th with 67 points, and Brentford 5th with 79.

Blackburn Rovers lined up in a 4-4-2 and Brentford in a 4-2-3-1.

Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 0 Blackburn Rovers wins, 0 draws and 1 for Brentford.

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

Data as of 4 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 5'Goal · Rudy GestedeBlackburn Rovers · 1-0
  • 35'Yellow card · Petr BadloBrentford
  • 44'Goal · Chris LongBrentford · 1-1
  • 45+3'Goal · C. TaylorBlackburn Rovers · 2-1
  • 47'Yellow card · Harlee DeanBrentford
  • 52'Goal · Jota PeleteiroBrentford · 2-2
  • 84'Goal · Andre GrayBrentford · 2-3

Head-to-head

1 meetings: Blackburn Rovers 0, draws 0, Brentford 1.

Team news

Unavailable

  • Scott HoganBrentford · injury (Cruciate Ligament Rupture)

Blackburn Rovers expected line-up (4-4-2)

Grant Hanley, Tommy Spurr, Todd Kane, Scott Dann, Ben Marshall, Jason Lowe, Alan Judge, J. Rhodes, Joshua King

Brentford expected line-up (4-2-3-1)

David Button, Tony Craig, Moses Odubajo, Harlee Dean, Jake Bidwell, Alan Judge, Jonathan Douglas, Alex Pritchard, Andre Gray