Leeds United 3-3 Blackburn Rovers: result and report
Championship · Saturday 1 September 2012
Result
Leeds United 3-3 Blackburn Rovers
Championship · Saturday 1 September 2012, 14:00 UTC · half-time 1-2
Leeds United 3-3 Blackburn Rovers: match report
Leeds United drew with Blackburn Rovers 3-3 in the Championship on Saturday 1 September 2012. It was 1-2 at half-time.
Marcus Olsson opened the scoring in the 19th minute. Leeds United's goals came from El-Hadji Diouf (41'), Ross McCormack (56') and L. Becchio (65'). Blackburn Rovers scored through Marcus Olsson (19'), Nuno Gomes (27') and Rubén Rochina (84').
Discipline: Leeds United received 2 yellow cards; Blackburn Rovers received 3 yellow cards.
Going into the game Leeds United were 6th on 6 points from 3 and Blackburn Rovers 3rd on 7 points from 3. Leeds United went on to finish that season 12th with 61 points, and Blackburn Rovers 17th with 58.
Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 4 Leeds United wins, 0 draws and 2 for Blackburn Rovers.
Going into the match Leeds United's last five read W-L-W and Blackburn Rovers's W-W-D.
Key events
- 19'Goal · Marcus Olsson
- 27'Goal · Nuno Gomes
- 28'Yellow card · Mauro Formica
- 33'Yellow card · Adam Drury
- 41'Goal · El-Hadji Diouf
- 47'Yellow card · Luke Varney
- 56'Goal · Ross McCormack
- 64'Yellow card · Grant Hanley
- 65'Goal · L. Becchio
- 84'Goal · Rubén Rochina
- 85'Yellow card · Dickson Etuhu
Head-to-head
Team news
Leeds United line-up
Paddy Kenny, Lee Peltier, Adam Drury, Tom Lees, Jason Pearce, Rodolph Austin, David Norris, Luciano Becchio, Luke Varney, El-Hadji Diouf, Ross McCormack
Blackburn Rovers line-up
Paul Robinson, Gaël Givet-Viaros, Marcus Olsson, Scott Dann, Mauro Formica, Morten Gamst Pedersen, Danny Murphy, Dickson Etuhu, Bruno Ribeiro, J. Rhodes, Nuno Gomes