Huddersfield Town 2-1 Blackburn Rovers: result and report
Championship · Tuesday 29 December 2020
Result
Huddersfield Town 2-1 Blackburn Rovers
Championship · Tuesday 29 December 2020, 19:45 UTC · half-time 0-0
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Huddersfield Town 2-1 Blackburn Rovers: match report
Huddersfield Town beat Blackburn Rovers 2-1 in the Championship on Tuesday 29 December 2020. It was 0-0 at half-time.
Naby Sarr opened the scoring in the 53rd minute. Huddersfield Town's goals came from Naby Sarr (53') and Naby Sarr (90'). Blackburn Rovers scored through Sam Gallagher (86').
Discipline: Huddersfield Town received 3 yellow cards; Blackburn Rovers received 2 yellow cards.
Going into the game Huddersfield Town were 14th on 28 points from 21 and Blackburn Rovers 11th on 29 points from 21. Huddersfield Town went on to finish that season 20th with 49 points, and Blackburn Rovers 15th with 57.
Huddersfield Town lined up in a 4-2-3-1 and Blackburn Rovers in a 4-3-3. The highest match rating in our data went to Naby Sarr of Huddersfield Town (8.9), ahead of Pipa (8.1).
Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 2 Huddersfield Town wins, 7 draws and 1 for Blackburn Rovers.
Key events
- 41'Yellow card · Pipa
- 50'Yellow card · Darragh Lenihan
- 53'Goal · Naby Sarr
- 55'Yellow card · Fraizer Campbell
- 67'Yellow card · Jonathan Hogg
- 86'Goal · Sam Gallagher
- 89'Yellow card · Lewis Holtby
- 90'Goal · Naby Sarr
Head-to-head
Team news
Unavailable
- Derrick Williams
- Christopher Schindler
- Joe Rankin-Costello
- Daniel Butterworth
- Lewis Travis
- Elliott Bennett
Huddersfield Town line-up (4-2-3-1)
Ryan Schofield, Pipa, Rarmani Edmonds-Green, Naby Sarr, Harry Toffolo, Carel Eiting, Jonathan Hogg, Isaac Mbenza, Juninho Bacuna, Lewis O'Brien, Fraizer Campbell
Blackburn Rovers line-up (4-3-3)
Thomas Kaminski, Ryan Nyambe, Darragh Lenihan, Yuki Takahashi, Amari'i Bell, Joe Rothwell, Tom Trybull, Bradley Johnson, Harvey Elliott, Adam Armstrong, Ben Brereton Díaz