Blackburn Rovers 2–1 Middlesbrough

BLABlackburn

2–1

Full Time

MIDMiddlesbrough

Hope Akpan 47′ · assist Matt Grimes
Danny Graham 83′ · assist S. Jackson

A. Forshaw 90+1′ · assist G. Ramírez

Tuesday 1 March at 19:45 · Ewood Park · Referee Andy Madley

Match stats

48%Possession52%

9Shots18

3Shots on target5

3Corners4

431Passes454

66%Pass accuracy74%

How it happened

47′Hope Akpan · assist Matt Grimes · home
52′Adam Clayton on for Grant Leadbitter · away
59′Tommy Spurr · home
64′G. Ramírez on for Stewart Downing · away
66′S. Jackson on for Tony Watt · home
69′Darragh Lenihan · home
78′Elliott Bennett on

Line-ups

Blackburn4-4-24-2-3-1Middlesbrough

Next meetingBlackburn Rovers v MiddlesbroughSat, 16 Sept 2023

Previous meetings · last 5

1

Blackburn

4

Draws

0

Middlesbrough

4Saves1

1Offsides1

3Yellow cards1

for Jordi Gómez

· home

81′Craig Conway on for Matt Grimes · home

83′Danny Graham · assist S. Jackson · home

86′Cristhian Stuani on for David Nugent · away

90+1′A. Forshaw · assist G. Ramírez · away

90+2′S. Jackson · home

90+3′Cristhian Stuani · away

BLABlackburn4-4-2

30Jason Steele
10Ben Marshall
22Shane Duffy
5Grant Hanley
3Tommy Spurr
14Jordi Gómez
26Darragh Lenihan
21Hope Akpan
16Matt GrimesA▾ 81′ (Conway on)
8Tony Watt▾ 66′ (Jackson on)
12Danny Graham

31Elliott Bennett▴ 78′ for Gómez

35Simeon JacksonA▴ 66′ for Watt

Bench: Adam Henley, Chris Brown, Elliott Ward, Craig Conway, David Raya

MIDMiddlesbrough4-2-3-1

1Dimitris Konstantopoulos
5Ritchie De Laet
22Dael Fry
6Ben Gibson
3George Friend
34Adam Forshaw
7Grant Leadbitter
27Albert Adomah
35David Nugent
19Stewart Downing▾ 64′ (Ramírez on)
9J. Rhodes

8Adam Clayton▴ 52′ for Leadbitter

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Blackburn Rovers

Nov 2013Blackburn Rovers1–0Middlesbrough

We go again

18

Cristhian Stuani

▴ 86′ for Nugent

21G. RamírezA▴ 64′ for Downing

Bench: Carlos de Pena, Tomas Mejías, Emilio Nsue, Tomas Kalas