Blackburn Rovers 1-4 Leicester City: result and report

Championship · Sunday 1 October 2023

Result

Blackburn Rovers 1-4 Leicester City

Championship · Sunday 1 October 2023, 11:00 UTC · half-time 1-2

Blackburn Rovers · Leicester City · Championship predictions

Blackburn Rovers 1-4 Leicester City: match report

Blackburn Rovers lost to Leicester City 1-4 in the Championship on Sunday 1 October 2023. The half-time score was 1-2.

Wout Faes opened the scoring in the 4th minute. Blackburn Rovers's goal came from Sammie Szmodics (9'). Leicester City scored through Wout Faes (4'), Jamie Vardy (28'), Kelechi Iheanacho (82', penalty) and Kiernan Dewsbury-Hall (88').

Discipline: Blackburn Rovers received 2 yellow cards; Leicester City received 3 yellow cards.

Going into the game Blackburn Rovers were 17th on 10 points from 8 and Leicester City 2nd on 21 points from 8. Blackburn Rovers went on to finish that season 19th with 53 points, and Leicester City 1st with 97.

Blackburn Rovers lined up in a 4-2-3-1 and Leicester City in a 4-3-3. The highest match rating in our data went to Kiernan Dewsbury-Hall of Leicester City (8.2), ahead of Sammie Szmodics (8.1).

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

Data as of 4 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 4'Goal · Wout FaesLeicester City · 0-1
  • 9'Goal · Sammie SzmodicsBlackburn Rovers · 1-1
  • 15'Yellow card · Abdul Fatawu IssahakuLeicester City
  • 28'Goal · Jamie VardyLeicester City · 1-2
  • 30'Yellow card · Stephy MavididiLeicester City
  • 46'Yellow card · Jannik VestergaardLeicester City
  • 48'Yellow card · Hayden CarterBlackburn Rovers
  • 70'Yellow card · Adam WhartonBlackburn Rovers
  • 82'Penalty goal · Kelechi IheanachoLeicester City · 1-3
  • 88'Goal · Kiernan Dewsbury-HallLeicester City · 1-4

Head-to-head

8 meetings: Blackburn Rovers 2, draws 2, Leicester City 4.

Team news

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

Aynsley Pears, Callum Brittain, Hayden Carter, Dominic Hyam, Harry Pickering, Lewis Travis, Adam Wharton, Dilan Markanday, A. Moran, Arnór Sigurdsson, Sammie Szmodics

Leicester City line-up (4-3-3)

Mads Hermansen, Ricardo Pereira, Wout Felix Lina Faes, Jannik Vestergaard, James Justin, Wilfred Ndidi, Harry Winks, Kiernan Dewsbury-Hall, Abdul Fatawu Issahaku, Jamie Vardy, Stephy Alvaro Mavididi