Blackburn Rovers 1-1 Coventry City: result and report

Championship · Saturday 27 February 2021

Result

Blackburn Rovers 1-1 Coventry City

Championship · Saturday 27 February 2021, 15:00 UTC · half-time 1-0

Blackburn Rovers · Coventry City · Championship predictions

Blackburn Rovers 1-1 Coventry City: match report

Blackburn Rovers drew with Coventry City 1-1 in the Championship on Saturday 27 February 2021. The half-time score was 1-0.

B. Brereton opened the scoring in the 27th minute. Blackburn Rovers's goal came from B. Brereton (27'). Coventry City scored through Matty James (50').

Discipline: Blackburn Rovers received 1 yellow card; Coventry City received 1 yellow card and 1 red card.

Going into the game Blackburn Rovers were 16th on 39 points from 31 and Coventry City 20th on 34 points from 32. Blackburn Rovers went on to finish that season 15th with 57 points, and Coventry City 16th with 55.

Blackburn Rovers lined up in a 4-3-3 and Coventry City in a 3-4-1-2. The highest match rating in our data went to Matty James of Coventry City (7.8), level with Sam McCallum (7.8).

Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 2 Blackburn Rovers wins, 0 draws and 0 for Coventry City.

Data as of 4 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 27'Goal · B. BreretonBlackburn Rovers · 1-0
  • 50'Goal · Matty JamesCoventry City · 1-1
  • 61'Yellow card · Barry DouglasBlackburn Rovers
  • 69'Yellow card · L. ØstigårdCoventry City
  • 83'Second yellow · L. ØstigårdCoventry City

Head-to-head

2 meetings: Blackburn Rovers 2, draws 0, Coventry City 0.

Team news

Unavailable

  • Lewis HoltbyBlackburn Rovers · injury (Tear in a joint capsule)

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

Thomas Kaminski, Ryan Nyambe, Darragh Lenihan, Jarrad Branthwaite, B. Douglas, Josef Dvornik, Lewis Travis, Joe Rothwell, Harvey Elliott, Adam Armstrong, Ben Brereton Díaz

Coventry City line-up (3-4-1-2)

Ben Wilson, Leo Østigård, Kyle McFadzean, Dominic Hyam, Fankaty Dabo, Liam Kelly, Jordan Shipley, Sam McCallum, Matty James, Tyler Walker, Maxime Biamou