Blackburn Rovers 1-0 Preston North End: result and report
Championship · Saturday 4 December 2021
Result
Blackburn Rovers 1-0 Preston North End
Championship · Saturday 4 December 2021, 15:00 UTC · half-time 0-0
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Blackburn Rovers 1-0 Preston North End: match report
Blackburn Rovers beat Preston North End 1-0 in the Championship on Saturday 4 December 2021. It was 0-0 at half-time.
The only goal came from B. Brereton of Blackburn Rovers in the 53rd minute.
Discipline: Blackburn Rovers received 4 yellow cards; Preston North End received 2 yellow cards.
Going into the game Blackburn Rovers were 5th on 33 points from 20 and Preston North End 18th on 25 points from 20. Blackburn Rovers went on to finish that season 8th with 69 points, and Preston North End 13th with 64.
Blackburn Rovers lined up in a 3-4-1-2 and Preston North End in a 3-4-1-2. The highest match rating in our data went to Darragh Lenihan of Blackburn Rovers (7.5), ahead of Lewis Travis (7.3).
Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 2 Blackburn Rovers wins, 2 draws and 6 for Preston North End.
Going into the match Blackburn Rovers's last five read W-W-D-W-L and Preston North End's D-W-L-L-W.
Key events
- 15'Yellow card · Darragh Lenihan
- 16'Yellow card · Tony Mowbray
- 53'Goal · B. Brereton
- 65'Yellow card · J. van Hecke
- 65'Yellow card · Emil Riis
- 68'Yellow card · Lewis Travis
- 83'Yellow card · Ched Evans
Head-to-head
Team news
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Blackburn Rovers line-up (3-4-1-2)
Aynsley Pears, Darragh Lenihan, Jan Paul van Hecke, Scott Wharton, Ryan Nyambe, Lewis Travis, Joe Rothwell, Harry Pickering, John Buckley, Ben Brereton Díaz, Reda Khadra
Preston North End line-up (3-4-1-2)
Daniel Iversen, Jordan Storey, Liam Lindsay, G. Cunningham, Matthew Olosunde, Ali McCann, Ben Whiteman, Josh Earl, Alan Browne, Ched Evans, Emil Riis