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Match report
English Footie
FA Cup: Round 3 (setup 4, season 27)
Crewe Alexandra
v.
Blackburn Rovers
Formation:
4-3-3
League position:
11
Overall form:
Home form:
Alex McCARTHY1Mamadou SAMASSA
Formation:
4-3-3
League position:
23
Overall form:
Home form:
Adam SMITH2JORGE Filipe Avelino TEIXEIRA
Craig FORSYTH3Patrick VAN AANHOLT
Lewis COOK848Felipe TEIXEIRA
Harlee DEAN5Vegard FORREN
Kortney HAUSE66Rhys WILLIAMS
Kenny LUNT7Nicolas MARIN
Modou BARROW787Bryan OVIEDO Jiménez
Rowan VINE9Sjoerd ARS
Cole SKUSE6107David MEYLER
Ross McCORMACK611Gaizka SAIZAR Lekuona
Manager
Alex BRUCE12Stephen O'LEARY
Ali AL-HABSI13David RAYA Martin
Rolando AARONS14Peter WHITTINGHAM
Conor GRANT615Keith TREACY
LUIS Fernández Teijeiro16Danny GRAHAM

Crewe Alexandra 0 Blackburn Rovers 0
(Half-time: 0-0, Attendance: 9,859, Stadium: Gresty Road, Referee: Graham LAWS 7½)
Scorers
67 Barrow <=> GrantSubstitutions
Sendings off
11 McCormack, 21 Barrow, 60 McCarthy, 78 CookBookings27 Williams, 87 Meyler
4Corners2
12Fouls9
11Offsides11
10Shots on5
5Shots off4
15Total shots9
10Shots saved3
51%Possession49%
Man of the match: Lewis COOK
8A wonderful save prevented BARROW from scoring a great goal.
11A late challenge gets MCCORMACK a yellow card.
17VAN AANHOLT's shot beat the 'keeper but rebounded off the Crewe Alexandra post.
18BARROW flicked a simple chance past the near post.
21A bad challenge on VAN AANHOLT by BARROW results in a booking.
27WILLIAMS booked.
28COOK worked the ball to LUNT, VINE collected his pass and headed the ball within easy reach of the Blackburn Rovers 'keeper.
35A shot from VINE held little difficulty for the 'keeper.
37MEYLER fired the ball through a ruck of players but the Crewe Alexandra 'keeper was a match for it as he dived to his right.
41HAUSE beat two Blackburn Rovers players and blasted a shot wide.
 
50A fine dribble was ended by a good save by the advancing 'keeper.
51The Blackburn Rovers 'keeper saved a beautiful effort from FORSYTH.
60MCCARTHY booked for an off-the-ball incident.
62JORGE TEIXEIRA ran onto a great ball from MARIN but hit his effort wide.
67LUNT knocked the ball to FORSYTH who nodded it just beyond the near post.
68SMITH stormed through the Blackburn Rovers defence but shot straight at SAMASSA.
69SKUSE's shot was well saved by the 'keeper.
72The 'keeper parried a neatly crafted shot from TEIXEIRA.
77A right foot effort from MCCORMACK was blocked by SAMASSA.
78COOK receives a yellow card for a poor challenge on VAN AANHOLT.
83An outswinging corner was touched into the arms of SAMASSA by VINE.
87LAWS books MEYLER for a late tackle.