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Blackburn Rovers vs Middlesbrough
21 Mar 2026, 12:30 · Championship · 2025/2026
Referee
Oliver LangfordChampionship 2025/2026 · 21 matches
As it happened
Match timeline
Blackburn RoversMin
Middlesbrough- 24′
Luke Ayling
Yellowcard
Argument
- ⇄
Todd Cantwell
Substitution
Off: Moussa Baradji
64′ - ⇄
Harry Pickering
Substitution
Off: Yuri Ribeiro
64′ - 68′⇄
Leo Castledine
Substitution
Off: Luke Ayling
- ⇄
Yuki Ohashi
Substitution
Off: Mathias Jørgensen
75′ - 81′⇄
Alex Bangura
Substitution
Off: Matt Targett
- 81′⇄
Jeremy Sarmiento
Substitution
Off: David Strelec
- 89′
Adilson Malanda
Yellowcard
Foul
The numbers
Fixture statistics
Green marks the higher recorded number; grey means level. This does not always mean a better performance. A dash means no reported value, not zero.
Individual contributions
Player ratings & full match stats
| Player | Min | G | A | Shots | Key | Tackles | Saves | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 90 | — | — | — | — | — | 3 | 7.22 | |
| 90 | — | — | 1 | — | 4 | — | 7.10 | |
| 90 | — | — | — | 1 | — | — | 7.20 | |
| 90 | — | — | — | — | 2 | — | 6.96 | |
| 90 | — | — | — | — | 2 | — | 6.83 | |
| 90 | — | — | 1 | — | 2 | — | 6.94 | |
| 90 | — | — | — | — | 5 | — | 7.09 | |
| 64 | — | — | — | — | 1 | — | 6.69 | |
| 90 | — | — | 2 | — | 1 | — | 6.78 | |
| 64 | — | — | 1 | — | 1 | — | 6.12 | |
| 75 | — | — | — | — | — | — | 6.34 | |
| 26 | — | — | — | — | 1 | — | 6.66 | |
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| 15 | — | — | — | 1 | — | — | 6.47 | |
| 26 | — | — | — | — | — | — | 6.57 | |
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Before this match
Recent form
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Blackburn Rovers
Latest: Portsmouth · 1–1
Match stats
7 Mar 2026, 12:30 · Home vs Portsmouth · 2025/2026
Middlesbrough
Latest: Queens Park Rangers · 4–0
Match stats
8 Mar 2026, 16:30 · Away vs Queens Park Rangers · 2025/2026
The rivalry
Head-to-head record
At Blackburn Rovers’s ground: 15 previous meetings, 6 home wins. Past results don’t predict the next match.
Matchup context
Home vs away this season
Compare Blackburn Rovers’s home games with Middlesbrough’s away games. For older matches, these season totals may include games played later.
Only stats recorded for both clubs are shown. In the key stats, green marks the more favourable figure, or the higher number where neither is better. Grey means the figures are level.
The number after / is how many matches had that stat.
More team stats
Results & goals
Goal frequencies
Corners
Cards
Shots & play
Chance quality
Season xG
Choose all, home or away games for each club. Green marks higher xG or lower xG against; grey means level.
These are past-match averages, not a prediction for this fixture.
Players
Top scorers and assist makers
Season totals for 2025/2026. These players are not a confirmed lineup.
Blackburn Rovers
Goals
Assists
Yellow cards
Red cards
Tackles
Middlesbrough
Yellow cards
Red cards
Tackles
Expected goals and shot quality
Match counts are shown beside each player.
Expected goals (xG)
Chance quality before the shot.
Blackburn Rovers
Middlesbrough
xG on target (xGoT)
Chance quality of shots that reached the target.
Blackburn Rovers
Middlesbrough
Shooting performance (xGoT - xG)
Shows whether a player made their chances better or worse with the quality of their shooting. Positive means they generally produced better-placed shots; negative means the shots were worse than the chances suggested.
Blackburn Rovers
Middlesbrough
Previous meetings
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