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Commentary

4¹ BENNETT was put clear by BUTTNER and he stepped inside EASTWOOD but struck his shot wide. 10¹ A shot from GÖKHAN seemed a certain goal but EASTWOOD managed to palm the ball away. 12¹ DJURICIC beat BARNETTA and blasted the ball to FAZIO who fumbled his shot wide. 13¹ RIISE shot over. 18¹ GOAL!! A delightful piece of skill from BROADFOOT gave BENNETT space on the left and BUTTNER poked in his pin-point pass. (1-0 Colchester United) 25¹ A delightful save prevented AFELLAY from scoring an exceptional goal. 26¹ MILITO made space on the right and touched the ball to COATES who clipped the ball wide. 28¹ FLETCHER ran onto a wonderful ball from SHARBINI but blasted his effort wide of the goal. 33¹ GOAL!! An energetic AFELLAY ran down the wing and dragged the ball back for DOST to fire home. (1-1) 34¹ A lovely cross from DJURICIC was slammed goalbound by FLETCHER only for EASTWOOD to block. 36¹ OPARE beat two Blackburn Rovers players and stroked a shot wide. 40¹ A looping shot from RIISE was tipped over by the Colchester United 'keeper. 43¹ GOAL!! A great twenty yard shot from MILITO hit the crossbar and in the ensuing meleé the ball was hoofed into the net by FELIPE MELO. (2-1 Blackburn Rovers) 1² A mix up in the Blackburn Rovers defence enabled DJURICIC to fire the ball inches wide. 13² A lovely effort from COATES scraped the top of the crossbar. 20² The stunned Blackburn Rovers 'keeper was a mere bystander as a backpass from MILITO dropped just wide. 29² A free-kick from AFELLAY went just wide. 35² The Blackburn Rovers 'keeper saved a curling effort from BENNETT. 36² SHARBINI snapped at an easy chance. 38² BUTTNER nodded the ball wide from just outside the area. 42² A corner bobbled toward FELIPE MELO who forced the ball over the bar. 43² A accurate pass bobbled toward SHARBINI and his looping effort floated narrowly wide.

Blackburn Rovers   League position: 9 Home league form: XWXL Overall league form: LXWXXWXX Formation: 4-3-3

Line-ups Simon EASTWOOD 7  1 7½ Sinan BOLAT Andrea GRIECO 6½ 2 7  Daniel OPARE John RIISE 6½ 3 6½ Alexander BUTTNER FELIPE MELO 8½ 4 7  Darron GIBSON Sebastián COATES 6½ 5 6½ Federico FAZIO(c) Tranquillo BARNETTA 6  6 6  Kirk BROADFOOT Modou SOUGOU 6  7 7  GÖKHAN Töre Ibrahim AFELLAY 6½ 8 7  Elliott BENNETT (p)Bas DOST 8  9 7  Steven FLETCHER(p) (c,f)Diego MILITO 6½ 10 6½ Anas SHARBINI(f) Goran PANDEV 6½ 11 6½ Filip DJURICIC Manager Corry EVANS    12    Nenad KRSTICIC David RAYA    13    Luke DANIELS Juan ITURBE 6½ 14    Dave EDWARDS Nathan DELFOUNESO    15    Mark WILSON Callum O'CONNOR    16    Morten NORDSTRAND

Colchester United   League position: 11 Away league form: LXWL Overall league form: XLXXWLLX Formation: 4-3-3

Statistics

Blackburn Rovers 2 Colchester United 1 (Half-time: 2-1, Attendance: 32,465, Stadium: Ewood Park, Referee: Mark Haywood 6) Dost 33¹, Felipe Melo 43¹ Scorers Substitutions Sent off Bookings Corners Fouls Offsides Shots on Shots off Total shots Shots saved Possession Buttner 18¹ SougouóIturbe 29²           8 2 13 7 6 7 4 5 10 13 14 18 2 4 47% 53% ¶ Man of the match: Felipe Melo ¶