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Match report
English Footie
League 1: Round 27 (setup 4, season 28)
Colchester United
v.
Blackburn Rovers
Formation:
4-3-3
League position:
24
Overall form:
Home form:
Jason STEELE516Mamadou SAMASSA
Formation:
4-3-3
League position:
23
Overall form:
Home form:
Cuco MARTINA26JORGE Filipe Avelino TEIXEIRA
Ben MEE837Patrick VAN AANHOLT
Steve SCHUMACHER4Rhys WILLIAMS
Florin GARDOS57Vegard FORREN
Marco 'Davide' FARAONI6Joost VAN AKEN
Don COWIE777Felipe TEIXEIRA
Kris COMMONS78Bryan OVIEDO Jiménez
Jay BOTHROYD98Sjoerd ARS
Igor VETOKELE6106Adam ARMSTRONG
Joe MASON611Gaizka SAIZAR Lekuona
Manager
Pat BALDWIN12Peter WHITTINGHAM
Sam WALKER13David RAYA Martin
Moses ASHIKODI146Jacob DAVENPORT
Theo ROBINSON15MIKEL ALONSO Olano
16Stephen O'LEARY

Colchester United 1 Blackburn Rovers 3
(Half-time: 1-1, Attendance: 7,426, Stadium: Community Stadium, Referee: Andy HALL 6½)
37p BothroydScorers11 Van Aanholt, 49 Ars, 90+1 Williams
56 Bothroyd <=> AshikodiSubstitutions82 Teixeira <=> Davenport
Sendings off
Bookings
3Corners3
3Fouls13
6Offsides7
6Shots on5
4Shots off5
10Total shots10
5Shots saved2
49%Possession51%
Man of the match: Rhys WILLIAMS
5Uncertainty in the Colchester United defence enabled JORGE TEIXEIRA to fire the ball over.
9A header by BOTHROYD at the far post was comfortably collected by the 'keeper.
11GOAL!! An imaginative VAN AKEN played a delightful ball down the middle to VAN AANHOLT who seemingly in an offside position went on to comfortably score. (1-0 Blackburn Rovers)
13COMMONS beat WILLIAMS and flicked the ball to BOTHROYD who fumbled his shot wide.
33STEELE was able to palm clear a poor header from ARS.
35BOTHROYD shot over.
37GOAL!! BOTHROYD poked a penalty beyond the Blackburn Rovers 'keeper after TEIXEIRA had handled just inside the area.
 
49GOAL!! After SAIZAR was tripped the referee waved play-on and ARS went on to easily score. (2-1 Blackburn Rovers)
53OVIEDO stabbed an easy chance past the far post.
54A fine piece of skill was ended by a good save by the advancing 'keeper.
57ARMSTRONG beat a number of Colchester United players and fired a golden opportunity just beyond the near post.
65COMMONS waltzed away from OVIEDO and stabbed a poor shot well wide.
76MASON clipped the ball through a ruck of players but SAMASSA was a match for it as he dived to his left.
78A cross from WILLIAMS left ARS in plenty of space but he fluffed his shot.
80A shot from GARDOS was smothered by the Blackburn Rovers 'keeper.
80OVIEDO ran onto a delightful ball from WILLIAMS but fumbled his effort wide.
82A wonderful save prevented ASHIKODI from scoring a good goal.
85A weak strike from GARDOS trickled agonisingly wide.
87A shot from FARAONI held little difficulty for SAMASSA.
90+1GOAL!! A delightful dribble from JORGE TEIXEIRA gave ARS space on the right and WILLIAMS flicked in his pin-point pass. (3-1 Blackburn Rovers)