Cardiff City 3-0 Blackburn Rovers: result and report
Championship · Monday 1 April 2013
Result
Cardiff City 3-0 Blackburn Rovers
Championship · Monday 1 April 2013, 14:00 UTC · half-time 1-0
Cardiff City 3-0 Blackburn Rovers: match report
Cardiff City defeated Blackburn Rovers 3-0 in the Championship on Monday 1 April 2013. The half-time score was 1-0.
Fraizer Campbell opened the scoring in the 40th minute. Cardiff City's goals came from Fraizer Campbell (40'), Joe Mason (86') and Peter Whittingham (90+6', penalty). Blackburn Rovers did not score.
Discipline: Cardiff City received no yellow cards; Blackburn Rovers received 4 yellow cards.
Going into the game Cardiff City were 1st on 75 points from 38 and Blackburn Rovers 18th on 47 points from 38. Cardiff City went on to finish that season 1st with 87 points, and Blackburn Rovers 17th with 58.
Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 2 Cardiff City wins, 0 draws and 0 for Blackburn Rovers.
Going into the match Cardiff City's last five read L-W-D-D-L and Blackburn Rovers's D-D-L-L-L.
Key events
- 33'Yellow card · Leon Best
- 40'Goal · Fraizer Campbell
- 40'Yellow card · Jake Kean
- 79'Yellow card · Colin Kazim-Richards
- 86'Goal · Joe Mason
- 90+4'Yellow card · S. Dann
- 90+6'Penalty goal · Peter Whittingham
Head-to-head
Team news
Cardiff City line-up
Txiki Acaz, Andrew Taylor, Ben Turner, Matthew Connolly, Leon Barnett, Craig Conway, Bo-kyung Kim, Aron Gunnarsson, Jordon Mutch, Craig Bellamy, Fraizer Campbell
Blackburn Rovers line-up
Scott Dann, Todd Kane, Grant Hanley, Morten Gamst Pedersen, Danny Murphy, Josh Morris, Daniel Bentley, Leon Best, Colin Kazim-Richards, J. Kean, David Jones