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Blackburn Rovers vs Wrexham
1 Jan 2026, 12:30 · Championship · 2025/2026
Referee
Thomas KirkChampionship 2025/2026 · 24 matches
As it happened
Match timeline
Blackburn RoversMin
Wrexham- 11′⚽
Sam Smith 0-1
Goal · Left foot shot
With: Matty James
Left foot shot
Moussa Baradji
Yellowcard
Foul
30′Todd Cantwell
Yellowcard
Foul
37′- 38′⚽
Ollie Rathbone 0-2
Goal · Right foot shot
With: Dan Scarr
Right foot shot
- 45+1′
Sam Smith
Yellowcard
Foul
- ⇄
Harry Pickering
Substitution
Off: Ryan Hedges
46′ - ⇄
Tom Atcheson
Substitution
Off: Matthew Litherland
59′ - 64′
George Dobson
Yellowcard
Foul
Lewis Miller
Yellowcard
Foul
67′- 72′⇄
Ben Sheaf
Substitution
Off: Matty James
Sondre Tronstad
Yellowcard
Foul
75′- ⇄
N. Dlamini
Substitution
Off: Axel Henriksson
82′ - 84′⇄
Liberato Cacace
Substitution
Off: Lewis O'Brien
- 87′⇄
Harry Ashfield
Substitution
Off: Ollie Rathbone
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 | — | — | — | — | — | 1 | 6.31 | |
| 90 | — | — | — | — | 2 | — | 5.73 | |
| 90 | — | — | 1 | — | 2 | — | 6.96 | |
| 90 | — | — | — | 1 | 3 | — | 6.63 | |
| 59 | — | — | 1 | 1 | — | — | 6.34 | |
| 90 | — | — | 4 | 1 | 4 | — | 7.51 | |
| 90 | — | — | 1 | — | 2 | — | 6.39 | |
| 46 | — | — | — | 1 | 2 | — | 6.46 | |
| 90 | — | — | 2 | 2 | 1 | — | 6.82 | |
| 82 | — | — | — | — | — | — | 6.42 | |
| 90 | — | — | 3 | 1 | 1 | — | 6.78 | |
| 44 | — | — | — | — | — | — | 6.61 | |
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| 31 | — | — | — | — | — | — | 6.55 | |
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| 8 | — | — | — | — | — | — | 6.46 |
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Before this match
Recent form
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Blackburn Rovers
Latest: Millwall · 2–0
Match stats
20 Dec 2025, 12:30 · Home vs Millwall · 2025/2026
Wrexham
Latest: Swansea City · 1–2
Match stats
19 Dec 2025, 20:00 · Away vs Swansea City · 2025/2026
The rivalry
Head-to-head record
At Blackburn Rovers’s ground: 1 previous meetings, 0 home wins. Past results don’t predict the next match.
Matchup context
Home vs away this season
Compare Blackburn Rovers’s home games with Wrexham’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
Wrexham
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.
Blackburn Rovers
Wrexham
xG on target (xGoT)
Chance quality of shots that reached the target.
Blackburn Rovers
Wrexham
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
Wrexham
Previous meetings
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