Blackburn Rovers 3-0 Nottingham Forest: result and report
Championship · Tuesday 1 January 2013
Result
Blackburn Rovers 3-0 Nottingham Forest
Championship · Tuesday 1 January 2013, 15:00 UTC · half-time 0-0
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Blackburn Rovers 3-0 Nottingham Forest: match report
Blackburn Rovers defeated Nottingham Forest 3-0 in the Championship on Tuesday 1 January 2013. The half-time score was 0-0.
Rubén Rochina opened the scoring in the 48th minute. Blackburn Rovers's goals came from Rubén Rochina (48'), Jordan Rhodes (75') and Colin Kazim-Richards (78'). Nottingham Forest did not score.
Discipline: Blackburn Rovers received 2 yellow cards; Nottingham Forest received 1 yellow card.
Going into the game Blackburn Rovers were 15th on 32 points from 24 and Nottingham Forest 7th on 37 points from 25. Blackburn Rovers went on to finish that season 17th with 58 points, and Nottingham Forest 8th with 67.
Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 0 Blackburn Rovers wins, 1 draw and 0 for Nottingham Forest.
Going into the match Blackburn Rovers's last five read W-L-L-L-D and Nottingham Forest's D-W-L-D-W.
Key events
- 33'Yellow card · Nicolás Frutos
- 48'Goal · Rubén Rochina
- 71'Yellow card · Danny Murphy
- 75'Goal · Jordan Rhodes
- 78'Goal · Colin Kazim-Richards
- 79'Yellow card · Colin Kazim-Richards
Head-to-head
Team news
Blackburn Rovers expected line-up
Paul Robinson, Martin Olsson, Scott Dann, Grant Hanley, Adam Henley, Mauro Formica, Danny Murphy, J. Rhodes
Nottingham Forest expected line-up
Danny Collins, Elliott Ward, Alan Hutton, Greg Halford, Andy Reid, Chris Cohen, Adlène Guédioura, Patrick McCarthy, Dexter Blackstock, Lee Camp, Dan Harding