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Match report
English Footie
League Trophy: Round 1 (setup 4, season 28)
Rushden&Diamonds
v.
Blackburn Rovers
Formation:
4-3-3
League position:
17
Overall form:
Home form:
Eric GRIMES1Mamadou SAMASSA
Formation:
4-3-3
League position:
23
Overall form:
Home form:
RAFAEL Pereira da Silva62JORGE Filipe Avelino TEIXEIRA
Alexander BUTTNER837Bryan OVIEDO Jiménez
KI Sung-yueng847Rhys WILLIAMS
Shkodran MUSTAFI857Vegard FORREN
Emanuel POGATETZ76Joost VAN AKEN
Jake LIVERMORE7Felipe TEIXEIRA
Andrew TAYLOR8Peter WHITTINGHAM
Georgios SAMARAS9Sjoerd ARS
Massimo MACCARONE610Nicolas MARIN
Isaac SUCCESS Ajayi711Gaizka SAIZAR Lekuona
Manager
Mauro BOSELLI12MIKEL ALONSO Olano
Will PATCHING13David RAYA Martin
Tom ELLIOTT14Keith TREACY
Paul LINWOOD156Stephen O'LEARY
Brian STOCK16Danny GRAHAM

Rushden&Diamonds 2 Blackburn Rovers 3
(Half-time: 1-3, Attendance: 6,557, Stadium: Nene Park, Referee: Graham LAWS 6½, TV: highlights)
44 Ki, 55 RafaelScorers8 Ars, 18 Whittingham, 20 Whittingham
75 Rafael <=> PatchingSubstitutions70 Oviedo <=> O'Leary
Sendings off
72 PogatetzBookings11 Forren, 30 Marin
0Corners3
6Fouls11
3Offsides3
6Shots on4
8Shots off2
14Total shots6
3Shots saved1
57%Possession43%
Man of the match: Will PATCHING
6TAYLOR's shot beat the Blackburn Rovers 'keeper but rebounded off the Blackburn Rovers crossbar.
8GOAL!! An imaginative WILLIAMS played a great ball down the right to ARS who seemingly in an offside position went on to comfortably score. (1-0 Blackburn Rovers)
11A bad challenge on MUSTAFI by FORREN results in a booking.
13A tame shot from LIVERMORE bounced agonisingly wide.
18GOAL!! A cross from FORREN was flicked away by POGATETZ only for SAIZAR to fire the ball back into the box for WHITTINGHAM to force over the line. (2-0 Blackburn Rovers)
20GOAL!! A one-fisted punch from the 'keeper enabled WHITTINGHAM to lob the ball into the empty net. (3-0 Blackburn Rovers)
28SAMASSA was able to claw away a tame header from SAMARAS.
30MARIN cautioned for a clinical tackle.
32SAMASSA saved a lovely strike from TAYLOR.
35ARS was put clear by SAIZAR and he nutmegged the Rushden&Diamonds 'keeper but struck his shot wide.
39SUCCESS beat two Blackburn Rovers players and fired a great chance over the bar.
40KI flicked an easy chance past the righthand post.
44GOAL!! As JORGE TEIXEIRA was trying to hold back POGATETZ the ball fell to KI who slammed the ball in off the post. (3-1 Blackburn Rovers)
 
48A fine ball from LIVERMORE on the right was collected by BUTTNER who mishit his effort inches wide.
55GOAL!! A tackle from ARS gave Rushden&Diamonds a free-kick thirty yards out which RAFAEL slammed past SAMASSA. (3-2 Blackburn Rovers)
58A right foot shot from ARS was stopped by the Rushden&Diamonds 'keeper.
68LIVERMORE made space on the left and pulled the ball to TAYLOR who touched the ball wide.
69TAYLOR headed inches wide.
70A accurate pass was collected by TAYLOR and his left foot shot went narrowly wide.
71A penalty box scramble resulted in TAYLOR tapping the ball wide.
72POGATETZ booked for dangerous play.
80SUCCESS's shot was well held by SAMASSA.
88A free-kick from TEIXEIRA went inches over.