Blackburn Rovers 2-3 Peterborough United: result and report

Championship · Saturday 2 March 2013

Result

Blackburn Rovers 2-3 Peterborough United

Championship · Saturday 2 March 2013, 15:00 UTC · half-time 0-3

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Blackburn Rovers 2-3 Peterborough United: match report

Blackburn Rovers lost to Peterborough United 2-3 in the Championship on Saturday 2 March 2013. The half-time score was 0-3.

Dwight Gayle opened the scoring in the 11th minute. Blackburn Rovers's goals came from Jordan Rhodes (73') and David Jones (90+2'). Peterborough United scored through Dwight Gayle (11'), Dwight Gayle (14') and Dwight Gayle (27').

Discipline: Blackburn Rovers received 2 yellow cards; Peterborough United received 1 yellow card.

Going into the game Blackburn Rovers were 11th on 45 points from 34 and Peterborough United 24th on 33 points from 33. Blackburn Rovers went on to finish that season 17th with 58 points, and Peterborough United 22nd with 54.

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

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

Data as of 4 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 11'Goal · Dwight GaylePeterborough United · 0-1
  • 14'Goal · Dwight GaylePeterborough United · 0-2
  • 27'Goal · Dwight GaylePeterborough United · 0-3
  • 55'Yellow card · Jason LoweBlackburn Rovers
  • 66'Yellow card · S. DannBlackburn Rovers
  • 70'Yellow card · Danny SwansonPeterborough United
  • 73'Goal · Jordan RhodesBlackburn Rovers · 1-3
  • 90+2'Goal · David JonesBlackburn Rovers · 2-3

Head-to-head

1 meetings: Blackburn Rovers 1, draws 0, Peterborough United 0.

Team news

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

Paul Robinson, Martin Olsson, Scott Dann, Grant Hanley, Adam Henley, Danny Murphy, Jason Lowe, Rubén Rochina, Mauro Formica, J. Rhodes, Joshua King

Peterborough United expected line-up

Robert Olejnik, Gabriel Zakuani, Mark Little, Michael Bostwick, George Boyd, Tommy Rowe, Dwight Gayle, Lee Tomlin, Grant McCann