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0¹	A refined cross from GORDON was flicked goalbound by BROJA only for BRYNN to claw away.
1¹	PLACHETA poked a simple chance past the righthand post.
6¹	GOAL!! A long drive from GIANNOULIS deflected off the legs of NGAKIA and into his own net. (1-0 Blackburn Rovers)
11¹	MORTON beat NEILSON and blasted the ball to GORDON who fired his effort wide.
12¹	COZIER-DUBERRY dribbled past GIANNOULIS and rattled a tame shot past the post.
15¹	An outswinging corner was flicked into the arms of WALTON by DYKES.
16¹	NEILSON made space on the right and touched the ball to DYKES who touched the ball over.
20¹	A shot from GORDON was headed off the line by BINDON.
27¹	A fine ball from HOLTBY on the right found GORDON who scuffed his shot over.
32¹	A wonderful save prevented GORDON from scoring a lovely goal.
35¹	GOAL!! A long ball from NEILSON down the middle fell to the lurking PLACHETA who fired a deadly shot into the top corner. (1-1)
40¹	The hapless 'keeper stared in disbelief as a backpass from HOLTBY fell just wide.
43¹	GOAL!! A shot from VAN EWIJK raced through a ruck of players and bounced past the unsighted BRYNN. (2-1 Blackburn Rovers)
44¹	A free-kick from DYKES went over.
3²	A penalty box scramble resulted in GIANNOULIS knocking a low shot over.
3²	PLACHETA's shot was well saved by the 'keeper.
7²	GOAL!! A cross from GIANNOULIS was headed away by McKEOWN only for HOLTBY to volley the ball back into the box for GORDON to force over the line. (3-1 Blackburn Rovers)
13²	A corner found HOLTBY who nodded an effort wide.
27²	MORTON's shot was well held by the 'keeper.
29²	A header by PLACHETA at the far post was comfortably collected by WALTON.
31²	GOAL!! An imaginative COZIER-DUBERRY played a great ball down the right to KODJIA who seemingly in an offside position went on to comfortably score. (3-2 Blackburn Rovers)
33²	A pin-point pass bobbled toward PLACHETA and his left foot effort floated narrowly over.
37²	A twenty-five yard shot from BUCKLEY caused the 'keeper little difficulty.
38²	A cross from BESUIJEN left KODJIA in lots of space but he snapped at his shot.
42²	VAN EWIJK kicked the ball wide of the lefthand post from the edge of the box.
45²	HOLTBY knocked the ball to GORDON who headed it over the bar.

Accrington Stan.

League position:

Home league form:

LLLX

Overall league form:

LLLLLLXX

Formation:

4-3-3

Line-ups

Sol BRYNN	6	1	6	Christian WALTON
Jeremy NGAKIA	6½	2	8	Milan VAN EWIJK
David JUNCÀ	7	3	6½	Dimitris GIANNOULIS
Lewis NEILSON	7	4	7½	Tyler MORTON
Tyler BINDON	6½	5	7	Ashley PHILLIPS
Rory McKEOWN	6	6	6½	Tosin ADARABIOYO^(c)
Vicente BESUIJEN	5½	7	6½	Lewis HOLTBY
Przemyslaw PLACHETA	7½	8	7	Joe ROTHWELL
^(p)Lyndon DYKES	7	9	6½	Armando BROJA
^(f)Amario COZIER-DUBERRY	6½	10	7	Ben BRERETON DÍAZ
^(c)Jonathan KODJIA	5½	11	7½	Anthony GORDON^(p,f)
	Manager			Luke MURRAY
Mutellip IMINQARI		12		Darnell FURLONG
Radek VÍTEK		13		Josh KEELEY
Tammer BANY		14		Elliott BENNETT
Nohan KENNEH		15	6	John BUCKLEY
Shay McCARTAN		16	6½	Josip DRMIC

Blackburn Rovers

League position:

Away league form:

LXLW

Overall league form:

LXWLXWXW

Formation:

4-4-2

Statistics

Accrington Stan. 2 Blackburn Rovers 3

(Half-time: 1-2, Attendance: 5,038, Stadium: Fraser Eagle, Referee: Paul Musselwhite 7½)

Placheta 35¹, Kodjia 31²

Scorers

Substitutions

Sent off

Bookings

Corners

Fouls

Offsides

Shots on

Shots off

Total shots

Shots saved

Possession

Ngakia 6¹ (og), van Ewijk 43¹, Gordon 7²

RothwellóBuckley 25², Brereton DíazóDrmic 25²

42%

58%

¶ Man of the match: Milan van Ewijk ¶