Blackburn Rovers 3-1 Reading: result and report

Championship · Saturday 1 November 2014

Result

Blackburn Rovers 3-1 Reading

Championship · Saturday 1 November 2014, 15:00 UTC · half-time 1-1

Blackburn Rovers · Reading · Championship predictions

Blackburn Rovers 3-1 Reading: match report

Blackburn Rovers defeated Reading 3-1 in the Championship on Saturday 1 November 2014. It was 1-1 at half-time.

Rudy Gestede opened the scoring in the 17th minute. Blackburn Rovers's goals came from Rudy Gestede (17'), Ben Marshall (55') and Rudy Gestede (68'). Reading scored through Glenn Murray (44').

Discipline: Blackburn Rovers received 2 yellow cards; Reading received 3 yellow cards.

Going into the game Blackburn Rovers were 8th on 22 points from 14 and Reading 17th on 17 points from 14. Blackburn Rovers went on to finish that season 9th with 67 points, and Reading 20th with 49.

Blackburn Rovers lined up in a 4-4-1-1 and Reading in a 4-4-2.

Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 3 Blackburn Rovers wins, 3 draws and 0 for Reading.

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

Data as of 4 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 17'Goal · Rudy GestedeBlackburn Rovers · 1-0
  • 44'Goal · Glenn MurrayReading · 1-1
  • 52'Yellow card · Jordan ObitaReading
  • 55'Goal · Ben MarshallBlackburn Rovers · 2-1
  • 65'Yellow card · Hope AkpanReading
  • 68'Goal · Rudy GestedeBlackburn Rovers · 3-1
  • 71'Yellow card · Corry EvansBlackburn Rovers
  • 79'Yellow card · Jake CooperReading
  • 90+6'Yellow card · Luke VarneyBlackburn Rovers

Head-to-head

6 meetings: Blackburn Rovers 3, draws 3, Reading 0.

Team news

Blackburn Rovers expected line-up (4-4-1-1)

J. Kean, Scott Dann, Grant Hanley, Jason Lowe, Tommy Spurr, Todd Kane, Tom Cairney, J. Rhodes, Joshua King, Leon Best

Reading expected line-up (4-4-2)

Alex Simon McCarthy, Chris Gunter, Sean Morrison, Stephen Kelly, Alex Pearce, Jordan Obita, Jem Karacan, Hal Robson-Kanu, Garath McCleary