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Blackburn Rovers vs Preston North End
20 Feb 2026, 20:00 · Championship · 2025/2026
Referee
Anthony BackhouseChampionship 2025/2026 · 25 matches
As it happened
Match timeline
Blackburn RoversMin
Preston North EndHayden Carter
Yellowcard
Foul
40′- 58′⇄
Jamal Piaras Lewis
Substitution
Off: Andrija Vukcevic
- 58′⇄
Thierry Small
Substitution
Off: Pol Valentín
- ⇄
Yuki Ohashi
Substitution
Off: Andri Gudjohnsen
68′ - 69′⇄
Daniel Jebbison
Substitution
Off: Milutin Osmajic
- 69′⇄
Callum Lang
Substitution
Off: Lewis Dobbin
- 70′
Callum Lang
Yellowcard
Foul
- 73′⇄
Odeluga Offiah
Substitution
Off: Andrew Hughes
- ⇄
Oladapo Afolayan
Substitution
Off: Harry Pickering
84′ - ⇄
Kristi Montgomery
Substitution
Off: Moussa Baradji
84′ Eiran Cashin
Yellowcard
Foul
90+1′- ⚽
Yuki Ohashi 1-0
Goal · Header
With: Eiran Cashin
Header
90+5′ - 90+7′
Thierry Small
Yellowcard
Off the ball 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 | — | — | — | — | — | 2 | 7.04 | |
| 90 | — | — | 1 | — | 2 | — | 7.08 | |
| 90 | — | — | — | 1 | 1 | — | 6.82 | |
| 90 | — | — | 1 | — | — | — | 6.92 | |
| 90 | — | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | — | 7.54 | |
| 84 | — | — | 1 | — | 2 | — | 6.79 | |
| 84 | — | — | 3 | 3 | — | — | 7.19 | |
| 90 | — | — | — | — | 1 | — | 7.13 | |
| 90 | — | — | 3 | 2 | — | — | 7.09 | |
| 90 | — | — | 1 | 1 | — | — | 6.86 | |
| 68 | — | — | — | 1 | — | — | 6.66 | |
| 6 | — | — | — | — | — | — | 6.43 | |
| 22 | 1 | — | 2 | 1 | — | — | 7.30 | |
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| 6 | — | — | 1 | — | — | — | 6.38 | |
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Before this match
Recent form
Select W, D or L to see that match’s stats. Pink outline = 2025/2026.
Blackburn Rovers
Latest: Sheffield Wednesday · 1–0
Match stats
3 Feb 2026, 19:45 · Home vs Sheffield Wednesday · 2025/2026
Preston North End
Latest: Ipswich Town · 1–1
Match stats
31 Jan 2026, 15:00 · Away vs Ipswich Town · 2025/2026
The rivalry
Head-to-head record
At Blackburn Rovers’s ground: 10 previous meetings, 3 home wins. Past results don’t predict the next match.
Matchup context
Home vs away this season
Compare Blackburn Rovers’s home games with Preston North End’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
Preston North End
Assists
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
Preston North End
xG on target (xGoT)
Chance quality of shots that reached the target.
Blackburn Rovers
Preston North End
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
Preston North End
Previous meetings
Select any result to see that fixture’s score, events and statistics.