Championship · Match preview
Blackburn Rovers 2–1 
Middlesbrough
- Kick-off
- Status
- Finished
- Venue
- Ewood Park
Times are shown in your browser's time zone with the zone name; before scripts load they are in Europe/Zurich.
Match overview
Final score: Blackburn Rovers 2–1 Middlesbrough.
Blackburn Rovers are 10th in the Championship table with 15 points from 11 matches; Middlesbrough are 3rd with 22 points from 11.
Last 3 results in our archive, newest first: Blackburn Rovers D W D W L; Middlesbrough W D D.
In their last 5 settled matches Blackburn Rovers scored 1.4 and conceded 1.4 goals per game; Middlesbrough scored 2.0 and conceded 1.7 in their last 3.
The Championship averages 2.9 goals a match this season; these two clubs’ recent matches point to about 3.2. Over 2.5 landed in 63% and both teams scored in 80% of their recent games.
Before kick-off the model’s pick was Middlesbrough to win at 41% probability; it did not come in.
All figures come from the results archive and the league table in our data; nothing on this page is estimated. How the probabilities are produced
Settled
The model’s pre-match pick and how it went
- Pick
- Middlesbrough to win
- Probability
- 41%
- Outcome
- Did not come in
Logged before kick-off, settled automatically against the final score and never edited afterwards. Full Championship record
Goals in recent matches
From the final scores of each club’s last settled matches: goals for and against per game, and how often over 2.5, both teams scoring and a clean sheet occurred.
| Club | P | For | Against | Over 2.5 | BTTS | Clean sheet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blackburn Rovers | 5 | 1.4 | 1.4 | 60% | 60% | 20% |
| Middlesbrough | 3 | 2.0 | 1.7 | 67% | 100% | 0% |
Championship average this season: 2.9 goals per match.
Championship table: the two clubs
| # | Club | P | W-D-L | Goals | Pts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 10. | Blackburn Rovers | 11 | 4-3-4 | 17:16 | 15 |
| 3. | Middlesbrough | 11 | 6-4-1 | 22:16 | 22 |
Recent form
Last five settled matches before this fixture, newest first.
Blackburn Rovers
- AWolverhampton Wanderers2–2D
- ABurton Albion1–2W
- AHuddersfield Town1–1D
- HStrasbourg2–0W
- ANottingham Forest3–0L
Middlesbrough
- HLincoln City2–1W
- HEspanyol3–3D
- ACeltic1–1D
Head-to-head
Meetings before this fixture, from the results archive (July 2026 onwards).
No previous meeting between these clubs in our results archive, which starts in July 2026.