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Match report
English Footie
League 1: Round 8 (setup 4, season 34)
Blackburn Rovers
v.
Birmingham City
Formation:
4-3-3
League position:
22
Overall form:
Home form:
Mamadou SAMASSA616Lee CAMP
Formation:
4-3-3
League position:
1
Overall form:
Home form:
Amari'i BELL627Maxime COLIN
Barry DOUGLAS83Juan FAMILIA-CASTILLO
Kasey PALMER48Jérémie BOGA
Vegard FORREN57Marc ROBERTS
JORGE Filipe Avelino TEIXEIRA766Jake CLARKE-SALTER
Jack RODWELL77Maikel KIEFTENBELD
Bradley JOHNSON88Marko ARNAUTOVIC
Ben BRERETON DÍAZ97Kemar ROOFE
Jacob DAVENPORT6106Lewis GRABBAN
Dan BUTTERWORTH116Scott HOGAN
Manager
Dominic SAMUEL12Isaac VASSELL
Ørjan Håskjold NYLAND13Milos VESIC
Sam HART14Lukas JUTKIEWICZ
Rhys WILLIAMS15Gary GARDNER
Harry CHAPMAN16Jefferson Antonio MONTERO Vite

Blackburn Rovers 3 Birmingham City 3
(Half-time: 1-1, Attendance: 27,412, Stadium: Ewood Park, Referee: Phil CROSSLEY 7½)
10 Brereton Díaz, 52 Brereton Díaz, 57 JohnsonScorers8 Arnautovic, 50 Roofe, 83 Boga
Substitutions50 Roberts <=> Jutkiewicz
Sendings off
33 Rodwell, 65 JohnsonBookings38 Grabban
2Corners2
10Fouls13
2Offsides1
5Shots on6
10Shots off3
15Total shots9
2Shots saved3
53%Possession47%
Man of the match: Jérémie BOGA
8GOAL!! A wonderful dummy from KIEFTENBELD allowed ROBERTS to lay a low ball off to ARNAUTOVIC who rammed the ball into the net. (1-0 Birmingham City)
10GOAL!! A great twenty yard shot from RODWELL hit the upright and in the ensuing meleé the ball was kicked into the net by BRERETON DÍAZ. (1-1)
27A weak strike from JOHNSON trickled agonisingly wide.
33RODWELL booked by CROSSLEY for a late tackle.
35A penalty box meleé resulted in BRERETON DÍAZ tapping the ball over.
37GRABBAN floated the ball to CLARKE-SALTER who nodded it wide.
38A clinical challenge gets GRABBAN a yellow card.
40PALMER ran onto a delightful ball from DAVENPORT but pulled his shot wide of the goal.
41The Birmingham City 'keeper was able to claw away a weak shot from JOHNSON.
45A great effort from JOHNSON scraped the outside of the righthand post.
 
50GOAL!! With his back to goal ROOFE wrong-footed the defence and flicked the ball past SAMASSA. (2-1 Birmingham City)
52GOAL!! Blackburn Rovers's BRERETON DÍAZ beat two defenders before firing just inside CAMP's far post. (2-2)
53ROOFE stabbed an easy chance past the lefthand post.
57GOAL!! An inswinging corner was booted clear only for JOHNSON to hammer the ball home. (3-2 Blackburn Rovers)
60SAMASSA saved a neatly crafted shot from ROOFE.
65The referee books JOHNSON.
69A header by FAMILIA-CASTILLO at the near post was comfortably collected by SAMASSA.
78A great save prevented BRERETON DÍAZ from scoring an exceptional goal.
79A useful ball from JUTKIEWICZ on the left bobbled toward KIEFTENBELD who mishit his shot just wide.
83GOAL!! A great shot from CLARKE-SALTER was punched clear by the 'keeper only as far as BOGA who drove the ball past the stranded SAMASSA. (3-3)
88RODWELL rushed an easy chance.
90+1A mix up in the Birmingham City defence enabled RODWELL to fire an effort inches over.