Huddersfield Town 3-0 Blackburn Rovers: result and report

Championship · Tuesday 26 December 2023

Result

Huddersfield Town 3-0 Blackburn Rovers

Championship · Tuesday 26 December 2023, 15:00 UTC · half-time 1-0

Huddersfield Town · Blackburn Rovers · Championship predictions

Huddersfield Town 3-0 Blackburn Rovers: match report

Huddersfield Town won against Blackburn Rovers 3-0 in the Championship on Tuesday 26 December 2023. It was 1-0 at half-time.

Jaheim Headley opened the scoring in the 28th minute. Huddersfield Town's goals came from Jaheim Headley (28'), Sorba Thomas (55') and Delano Burgzorg (68'). Blackburn Rovers did not score.

Discipline: Huddersfield Town received 1 yellow card; Blackburn Rovers received 4 yellow cards.

Going into the game Huddersfield Town were 21st on 22 points from 23 and Blackburn Rovers 14th on 31 points from 23. Huddersfield Town went on to finish that season 23rd with 45 points, and Blackburn Rovers 19th with 53.

Huddersfield Town lined up in a 3-5-2 and Blackburn Rovers in a 4-1-3-2. The highest match rating in our data went to Delano Burgzorg of Huddersfield Town (8.3), ahead of Sorba Thomas (8.0).

Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 3 Huddersfield Town wins, 5 draws and 2 for Blackburn Rovers.

Data as of 4 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 28'Goal · Jaheim HeadleyHuddersfield Town · 1-0
  • 35'Yellow card · Hayden CarterBlackburn Rovers
  • 49'Yellow card · Tom LeesHuddersfield Town
  • 51'Yellow card · Adam WhartonBlackburn Rovers
  • 55'Goal · Sorba ThomasHuddersfield Town · 2-0
  • 68'Goal · Delano BurgzorgHuddersfield Town · 3-0
  • 90+1'Yellow card · Callum BrittainBlackburn Rovers
  • 90+5'Yellow card · Lewis TravisBlackburn Rovers

Head-to-head

10 meetings: Huddersfield Town 3, draws 5, Blackburn Rovers 2.

Team news

Huddersfield Town line-up (3-5-2)

Chris Maxwell, Tom Lees, Michal Helik, Yuta Nakayama, David Kasumu, Ben Wiles, Jonathan Hogg, Jack Rudoni, Jaheim Headley, Sorba Thomas, Delano Burgzorg

Blackburn Rovers line-up (4-1-3-2)

Leopold Wahlstedt, Callum Brittain, Hayden Carter, Dominic Hyam, Harry Pickering, Sondre Tronstad, A. Moran, Adam Wharton, Arnór Sigurdsson, Niall Ennis, Sammie Szmodics