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Sheffield Wednesday vs Blackburn Rovers
29 Dec 2025, 19:45 · Championship · 2025/2026
Referee
Oliver LangfordChampionship 2025/2026 · 21 matches
As it happened
Match timeline
Sheffield WednesdayMin
Blackburn RoversBarry Bannan
Yellowcard
Foul
57′Jamal Lowe
Yellowcard
Foul
60′- ⇄
Svante Ingelsson
Substitution
Off: Jamal Lowe
62′ - 68′
Sondre Tronstad
Yellowcard
Foul
- 74′⇄
N. Dlamini
Substitution
Off: Axel Henriksson
- 75′⇄
Taylor Gardner-Hickman
Substitution
Off: Sondre Tronstad
- ⇄
Rio Shipston
Substitution
Off: Jarvis Thornton
79′ - 85′
Taylor Gardner-Hickman
Yellowcard
Foul
- 89′
Valérien Ismaël
Yellowcard
- 89′
Todd Cantwell
Yellowcard
Argument
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 |
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| 90 | — | — | — | — | — | 2 | 6.94 | |
| 90 | — | — | — | — | 2 | — | 7.36 | |
| 90 | — | — | 1 | — | 2 | — | 7.08 | |
| 90 | — | — | — | 1 | 3 | — | 7.04 | |
| 90 | — | — | — | — | 4 | — | 6.64 | |
| 90 | — | — | — | 2 | 2 | — | 6.66 | |
| 79 | — | — | 1 | — | 1 | — | 6.46 | |
| 90 | — | — | 2 | 1 | 2 | — | 6.79 | |
| 90 | — | — | — | — | 3 | — | 7.46 | |
| 90 | — | — | 1 | — | 1 | — | 6.66 | |
| 62 | — | — | — | — | 1 | — | 6.60 | |
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| 28 | — | — | — | — | — | — | 6.59 | |
| 11 | — | — | — | — | — | — | 6.44 | |
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Before this match
Recent form
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Sheffield Wednesday
Latest: Hull City · 2–2
Match stats
26 Dec 2025, 15:00 · Home vs Hull City · 2025/2026
Blackburn Rovers
Latest: Middlesbrough · 0–0
Match stats
26 Dec 2025, 15:00 · Away vs Middlesbrough · 2025/2026
The rivalry
Head-to-head record
At Sheffield Wednesday’s ground: 11 previous meetings, 6 home wins. Past results don’t predict the next match.
Matchup context
Home vs away this season
Compare Sheffield Wednesday’s home games with Blackburn Rovers’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.
Sheffield Wednesday
Assists
Yellow cards
Red cards
Tackles
Blackburn Rovers
Goals
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.
Sheffield Wednesday
Blackburn Rovers
xG on target (xGoT)
Chance quality of shots that reached the target.
Sheffield Wednesday
Blackburn Rovers
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.
Sheffield Wednesday
Blackburn Rovers
Previous meetings
Select any result to see that fixture’s score, events and statistics.