Watford 3-1 Blackburn Rovers: result and report
Championship · Wednesday 21 October 2020
Result
Watford 3-1 Blackburn Rovers
Championship · Wednesday 21 October 2020, 18:45 UTC · half-time 2-1
Watford 3-1 Blackburn Rovers: match report
Watford defeated Blackburn Rovers 3-1 in the Championship on Wednesday 21 October 2020. It was 2-1 at half-time.
João Pedro opened the scoring in the 13th minute. Watford's goals came from João Pedro (13'), Tom Cleverley (17') and an own goal by Darragh Lenihan (49'). Blackburn Rovers scored through B. Brereton (28').
Discipline: Watford received 3 yellow cards; Blackburn Rovers received no yellow cards.
Going into the game Watford were 6th on 10 points from 5 and Blackburn Rovers 13th on 7 points from 5. Watford went on to finish that season 3rd with 91 points, and Blackburn Rovers 15th with 57.
Watford lined up in a 3-5-2 and Blackburn Rovers in a 4-3-3. The highest match rating in our data went to Ben Foster of Watford (8.2), ahead of Lewis Holtby (8.1).
Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 3 Watford wins, 2 draws and 3 for Blackburn Rovers.
Key events
- 13'Goal · João Pedro
- 17'Goal · Tom Cleverley
- 22'Yellow card · Christian Kabasele
- 28'Goal · B. Brereton
- 49'Own goal · Darragh Lenihan
- 69'Missed penalty · Adam Armstrong
- 75'Yellow card · Jeremy Ngakia
- 84'Yellow card · João Pedro
Head-to-head
Team news
Unavailable
- Troy Deeney
- Derrick Williams
- Tom Dele-Bashiru
- Andre Gray
- Jarrad Branthwaite
- Bradley Dack
- Daniel Butterworth
- Isaac Success
- Joe Rothwell
- Sam Gallagher
- Lewis Travis
- Adam Masina
- Elliott Bennett
Watford line-up (3-5-2)
Ben Foster, Craig Cathcart, Christian Kabasele, Ben Wilmot, Kiko Femenía, James Garner, Nathaniel Chalobah, Tom Cleverley, Ken Sema, Ismaïla Sarr, João Pedro
Blackburn Rovers line-up (4-3-3)
Thomas Kaminski, Ryan Nyambe, Darragh Lenihan, Yuki Takahashi, Amari'i Bell, Lewis Holtby, Josef Dvornik, Bradley Johnson, Harvey Elliott, Adam Armstrong, Ben Brereton Díaz