Swansea City 3-1 Blackburn Rovers: result and report
Championship · Tuesday 23 October 2018
Result
Swansea City 3-1 Blackburn Rovers
Championship · Tuesday 23 October 2018, 18:45 UTC · half-time 0-1
Swansea City 3-1 Blackburn Rovers: match report
Swansea City won against Blackburn Rovers 3-1 in the Championship on Tuesday 23 October 2018. The half-time score was 0-1.
Charlie Mulgrew opened the scoring in the 26th minute. Swansea City's goals came from an own goal by David Raya (64'), C. Roberts (68') and Bersant Celina (85'). Blackburn Rovers scored through Charlie Mulgrew (26', penalty).
Discipline: Swansea City received no yellow cards; Blackburn Rovers received 2 yellow cards.
Going into the game Swansea City were 15th on 17 points from 13 and Blackburn Rovers 7th on 21 points from 13. Swansea City went on to finish that season 10th with 65 points, and Blackburn Rovers 16th with 60.
Swansea City lined up in a 4-3-3 and Blackburn Rovers in a 4-2-3-1. The highest match rating in our data went to Bersant Celina of Swansea City (8.5), ahead of Daniel James (8.0).
Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 1 Swansea City win, 0 draws and 1 for Blackburn Rovers.
Key events
- 19'Yellow card · Charlie Mulgrew
- 26'Penalty goal · Charlie Mulgrew
- 42'Yellow card · Elliott Bennett
- 64'Own goal · David Raya
- 68'Goal · C. Roberts
- 85'Goal · Bersant Celina
Head-to-head
Team news
Swansea City line-up (4-3-3)
Kristoffer Nordfeldt, Connor Roberts, Mike van der Hoorn, Cameron Carter-Vickers, Martin Olsson, Kyle Naughton, Tom Carroll, Matt Grimes, Daniel James, Oli McBurnie, Bersant Celina
Blackburn Rovers line-up (4-2-3-1)
David Raya, Elliott Bennett, Darragh Lenihan, Charlie Mulgrew, Amari'i Bell, Josef Dvornik, Richard Smallwood, Harrison Reed, Bradley Dack, Adam Armstrong, Danny Graham