Preston North End 1-2 Blackburn Rovers: result and report

Championship · Friday 21 November 2025

Result

Preston North End 1-2 Blackburn Rovers

Championship · Friday 21 November 2025, 20:00 UTC · half-time 1-1

Preston North End · Blackburn Rovers · Championship predictions

Preston North End 1-2 Blackburn Rovers: match report

Preston North End were beaten by Blackburn Rovers 1-2 in the Championship on Friday 21 November 2025. It was 1-1 at half-time.

Lewis Miller opened the scoring in the 45th minute. Preston North End's goal came from Alfie Devine (45+1'). Blackburn Rovers scored through Lewis Miller (45') and Andri Gudjohnsen (62').

Discipline: Preston North End received 1 yellow card; Blackburn Rovers received no yellow cards.

Going into the game Preston North End were 4th on 26 points from 15 and Blackburn Rovers 19th on 16 points from 14. Preston North End went on to finish that season 14th with 60 points, and Blackburn Rovers 22nd with 52.

Preston North End lined up in a 3-1-4-2 and Blackburn Rovers in a 3-4-1-2. The highest match rating in our data went to Alfie Devine of Preston North End (8.1), ahead of Ryoya Morishita (7.6).

Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 3 Preston North End wins, 3 draws and 4 for Blackburn Rovers.

Data as of 4 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 45'Goal · Lewis MillerBlackburn Rovers · 0-1
  • 45+1'Goal · Alfie DevinePreston North End · 1-1
  • 62'Goal · Andri GudjohnsenBlackburn Rovers · 1-2
  • 90+3'Yellow card · Ben WhitemanPreston North End

Head-to-head

10 meetings: Preston North End 3, draws 3, Blackburn Rovers 4.

Team news

Preston North End line-up (3-1-4-2)

Daniel Iversen, Jordan Storey, Liam Lindsay, Andrew Hughes, Ben Whiteman, O. Offiah, Alfie Devine, Stefán Teitur Thórdarson, Thierry Small, Michael Smith, Lewis Dobbin

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

Aynsley Pears, Lewis Miller, Sean McLoughlin, George Pratt, Ryan Alebiosu, Sondre Tronstad, Kristi Montgomery, Ryan Hedges, Ryoya Morishita, Yuki Ohashi, Andri Gudjohnsen