Blackburn Rovers 2-0 Reading: result and report
Championship · Saturday 23 October 2021
Result
Blackburn Rovers 2-0 Reading
Championship · Saturday 23 October 2021, 14:00 UTC · half-time 0-0
Blackburn Rovers 2-0 Reading: match report
Blackburn Rovers defeated Reading 2-0 in the Championship on Saturday 23 October 2021. The half-time score was 0-0.
Sam Gallagher opened the scoring in the 61st minute. Blackburn Rovers's goals came from Sam Gallagher (61') and Tyrhys Dolan (64'). Reading did not score.
Discipline: Blackburn Rovers received 4 yellow cards; Reading received 2 yellow cards.
Going into the game Blackburn Rovers were 13th on 17 points from 13 and Reading 9th on 19 points from 13. Blackburn Rovers went on to finish that season 8th with 69 points, and Reading 22nd with 47.
Blackburn Rovers lined up in a 4-3-3 and Reading in a 4-3-3. The highest match rating in our data went to Sam Gallagher of Blackburn Rovers (8.7), ahead of Tyrhys Dolan (8.3).
Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 3 Blackburn Rovers wins, 1 draw and 6 for Reading.
Going into the match Blackburn Rovers's last five read L-D-L-L-W and Reading's L-W-W-L-W.
Key events
- 38'Yellow card · J. Buckley
- 56'Yellow card · John Swift
- 61'Goal · Sam Gallagher
- 64'Goal · Tyrhys Dolan
- 72'Yellow card · J. van Hecke
- 79'Yellow card · Ian Poveda
- 90+1'Yellow card · Bradley Johnson
- 90+2'Yellow card · Danny Drinkwater
Head-to-head
Team news
Unavailable
- Junior Hoilett
- Andrew Farai Rinomhota
- Ethan Bristow
- Alen Halilovic
- Dejan Tetek
- Michael Morrison
- Yakou Méïté
- Bradley Dack
- Marc McNulty
- Lucas João
- Felipe Araruna
- Tom McIntyre
Blackburn Rovers line-up (4-3-3)
Thomas Kaminski, Ryan Nyambe, Darragh Lenihan, Yuki Takahashi, Tayo Edun, John Buckley, Lewis Travis, Joe Rothwell, Tyrhys Dolan, Sam Gallagher, Ben Brereton Díaz
Reading line-up (4-3-3)
Luke Southwood, Andy Yiadom, Liam Moore, Scott Dann, Abdul Rahman Baba, Danny Drinkwater, Josh Laurent, Ovie Ejaria, Femi Azeez, Tom Dele-Bashiru, John Swift