Blackburn Rovers 2-1 Watford: result and report
Championship · Saturday 26 April 2025
Result
Blackburn Rovers 2-1 Watford
Championship · Saturday 26 April 2025, 14:00 UTC · half-time 0-0
Blackburn Rovers 2-1 Watford: match report
Blackburn Rovers won against Watford 2-1 in the Championship on Saturday 26 April 2025. It was 0-0 at half-time.
Mattie Pollock opened the scoring in the 47th minute. Blackburn Rovers's goals came from Todd Cantwell (59') and Tyrhys Dolan (74'). Watford scored through Mattie Pollock (47').
Discipline: Blackburn Rovers received 5 yellow cards; Watford received 5 yellow cards.
Going into the game Blackburn Rovers were 9th on 62 points from 44 and Watford 12th on 56 points from 44. Blackburn Rovers went on to finish that season 7th with 66 points, and Watford 14th with 57.
Blackburn Rovers lined up in a 4-2-3-1 and Watford in a 3-4-3. The highest match rating in our data went to Todd Cantwell of Blackburn Rovers (8.7), ahead of Imrân Louza (7.7).
Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 2 Blackburn Rovers wins, 3 draws and 5 for Watford.
Going into the match Blackburn Rovers's last five read W-W-W-D-L and Watford's L-L-L-W-L.
Key events
- 16'Yellow card · Imrân Louza
- 24'Yellow card · James Abankwah
- 34'Yellow card · Ryan Hedges
- 44'Yellow card · Tyrhys Dolan
- 45+1'Yellow card · James Morris
- 47'Goal · Mattie Pollock
- 59'Goal · Todd Cantwell
- 65'Yellow card · Mamadou Doumbia
- 74'Goal · Tyrhys Dolan
- 85'Yellow card · Edo Kayembe
- 90+3'Yellow card · Emmanuel Dennis
- 90+6'Yellow card · Lewis Travis
- 90+8'Yellow card · Adam Forshaw
Head-to-head
Team news
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Blackburn Rovers line-up (4-2-3-1)
Balázs Tóth, Callum Brittain, Dominic Hyam, Danny Batth, Yuri Ribeiro, Sondre Tronstad, Lewis Travis, Tyrhys Dolan, Todd Cantwell, Ryan Hedges, Yuki Ohashi
Watford line-up (3-4-3)
Egil Selvik, James Abankwah, Mattie Pollock, James Morris, Jeremy Ngakia, Imrân Louza, Tom Dele-Bashiru, Caleb Wiley, Edo Kayembe, Mamadou Doumbia, Rocco Vata