Middlesbrough 0-0 Blackburn Rovers: result and report
Championship · Friday 26 December 2025
Result
Middlesbrough 0-0 Blackburn Rovers
Championship · Friday 26 December 2025, 15:00 UTC · half-time 0-0
Middlesbrough 0-0 Blackburn Rovers: match report
Middlesbrough drew with Blackburn Rovers 0-0 in the Championship on Friday 26 December 2025. It was 0-0 at half-time.
Neither side found the net.
Discipline: Middlesbrough received 2 yellow cards; Blackburn Rovers received 2 yellow cards.
Going into the game Middlesbrough were 2nd on 42 points from 22 and Blackburn Rovers 20th on 25 points from 21. Middlesbrough went on to finish that season 5th with 82 points, and Blackburn Rovers 22nd with 52.
Middlesbrough lined up in a 4-2-2-2 and Blackburn Rovers in a 3-4-1-2. The highest match rating in our data went to Sondre Tronstad of Blackburn Rovers (7.8), ahead of Luke Ayling (7.7).
Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 2 Middlesbrough wins, 3 draws and 5 for Blackburn Rovers.
Going into the match Middlesbrough's last five read L-W-W-W-W and Blackburn Rovers's W-L-D-D-D.
Key events
- 31'Yellow card · Alex Gilbert
- 57'Yellow card · Ryoya Morishita
- 80'Yellow card
- 80'Yellow card
Head-to-head
Team news
Unavailable
Middlesbrough line-up (4-2-2-2)
Sol Brynn, Callum Brittain, Luke Ayling, Alfie Jones, Matt Targett, Alex Gilbert, Hayden Hackney, Morgan Whittaker, Micah Hamilton, David Strelec, Tommy Conway
Blackburn Rovers line-up (3-4-1-2)
Aynsley Pears, Lewis Miller, Sean McLoughlin, George Pratt, Matty Litherland, Ryoya Morishita, Sondre Tronstad, Ryan Hedges, Todd Cantwell, Axel Henriksson, Yuki Ohashi