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Match report
English Footie
FA Cup: Round 1 (setup 4, season 35)
Forest Green
v.
Blackburn Rovers
Formation:
4-3-3
Overall form:
Home form:
James SHEA17Thomas KAMINSKI
Formation:
4-3-3
League position:
24
Overall form:
Home form:
Carl WINCHESTER27JORGE Filipe Avelino TEIXEIRA
Harry TOFFOLO3Tyrhys DOLAN
Romaine SAWYERS84John BUCKLEY
Liam KITCHING57Vegard FORREN
Niall MASON66Hayden CARTER
Romal PALMER776Kasey PALMER
Ryan GILES8Reda KHADRA
Jamille MATT9Ben BRERETON DÍAZ
Andreas WEIMANN10Sam GALLAGHER
Liam MILLAR117Adam ARMSTRONG
Manager
Udoka GODWIN-MALIFE12Rhys WILLIAMS
Andreas VAIKLA13Angus GUNN
David WHEELER14Dan BUTTERWORTH
Dominic BERNARD15Ian POVEDA
Harry PICKERING168Tyler MORTON

Forest Green 1 Blackburn Rovers 2
(Half-time: 1-1, Attendance: 5,132, Stadium: The New Lawn, Referee: Trevor KETTLE 6½)
40p MattScorers36 Armstrong, 53 Khadra
50 Winchester <=> PickeringSubstitutions47 Buckley <=> Morton
Sendings off
72 SheaBookings74 Carter, 81 Jorge Teixeira
0Corners2
5Fouls17
0Offsides2
5Shots on6
7Shots off6
12Total shots12
4Shots saved3
53%Possession47%
Man of the match: Romaine SAWYERS
1MATT's shot was well held by KAMINSKI.
1BUCKLEY made space on the left and dragged the ball to KHADRA who rasped the ball over.
4ARMSTRONG was put clear by BUCKLEY and he beat the Forest Green 'keeper but drilled his shot wide.
15GILES headed just beyond the near post.
18A fine ball from MASON on the left found GILES who scuffed his shot inches over.
20A strike from GILES held no problem for KAMINSKI.
20A drive from PALMER seemed a certain goal but the 'keeper managed to palm the ball away.
23BUCKLEY worked the ball to FORREN, BRERETON DÍAZ latched onto his pass and nodded the ball within easy reach of the Forest Green 'keeper.
27A wonderful save prevented KHADRA from scoring a great goal.
30A header by PALMER at the near post was comfortably collected by the Forest Green 'keeper.
36GOAL!! An inswinging corner was booted clear only for ARMSTRONG to blast the ball home. (1-0 Blackburn Rovers)
40GOAL!! Forest Green were awarded a penalty after a foul on WEIMANN, and MATT put it past the 'keeper.
 
50SAWYERS brought the ball round DOLAN and flicked a poor shot into the crowd.
51An outswinging corner was touched into the arms of KAMINSKI by MATT.
53GOAL!! A free-kick was palmed away by the Forest Green 'keeper, BRERETON DÍAZ was first to the loose ball and knocked the ball to KHADRA to tuck home. (2-1 Blackburn Rovers)
59A good effort from WEIMANN scraped the outside of the lefthand post.
65PALMER beat a number of Blackburn Rovers players and drove a shot inches over.
72SHEA booked for a bad foul.
74A bad challenge on WEIMANN by CARTER results in a booking.
75PALMER shot over.
81A bad challenge gets JORGE TEIXEIRA a yellow card.
87CARTER nodded the ball wide from the edge of the box.