Blackburn Rovers 1–2 Birmingham City — Championship 2025/26 Match Stats

Championship · 2025Sat, 16 Aug 2025, 14:00 UTCEwood Park

Blackburn Rovers

1–2Historical match

Birmingham City

A completed match from a finished season. This page is the record of what happened.

Match at a glance

Birmingham City won 1–2.

Shots: 58
Shots on target: 24
Expected goals: 0.432
Possession: 41%59%

Full time

What the match recorded

Birmingham City beat Blackburn Rovers 2–1. Recorded in this match (Blackburn Rovers – Birmingham City): shots 5–8, shots on target 2–4, expected goals 0.43–2, possession 41%–59%. This is what was recorded. It is not a claim that the result was foreseeable.

This match

Match statistics

Shots5 shots8 shotsBlackburn Rovers 5 shots, Birmingham City 8 shots
Shots on target2 shots4 shotsBlackburn Rovers 2 shots, Birmingham City 4 shots
Expected goals0.43 xG2 xGBlackburn Rovers 0.43 xG, Birmingham City 2 xG
Possession41%59%Blackburn Rovers 41%, Birmingham City 59%
Corners3 corners5 cornersBlackburn Rovers 3 corners, Birmingham City 5 corners
Fouls14 fouls13 foulsBlackburn Rovers 14 fouls, Birmingham City 13 fouls

Every shot

Shot map

Every recorded shot, placed where it was taken and sized by its expected-goals value. Arrows show each team’s attacking direction.

off target
on target
goal
penalty
size = xG

Blackburn Rovers: 5 shots, 2 on target, 0.42 xG. Birmingham City: 8 shots, 4 on target, 2.01 xG.

How the match built

Expected-goals timeline

Expected goals accumulated minute by minute. Circles mark the goals that were actually scored.

The step line is cumulative expected goals; circles mark goals. Final: Blackburn Rovers 0.42 xG · Birmingham City 2.01 xG.

History

Head-to-head

Recent meetings between these teams.

Last 5 meetings

3Blackburn Rovers

0Draws

2Birmingham City

13 Feb 2024Birmingham City — Blackburn Rovers · Championship1–0

29 Nov 2023Blackburn Rovers — Birmingham City · Championship4–2

1 Apr 2023Birmingham City — Blackburn Rovers · Championship1–0

22 Oct 2022Blackburn Rovers — Birmingham City · Championship2–1

7 May 2022Birmingham City — Blackburn Rovers · Championship1–2

Head-to-Head & Recent Meetings

Metric comparison

Team comparison

led this metric higher value (descriptive) too close

Matches in previous 14 days · Both teams: 1 match

7 daysRest before fixtureprevious completed fixtures · 1/17.79 days

Evidence quality

How much supports this analysis

Grade C · Limited evidenceLimited evidence — limited

Season samples2 / 2home / away teams

Recent samples2 / 2last-five windows

FreshnessLess than one dayfrom nearest prior match

At least one team has fewer than the configured season sample.
At least one team has an incomplete last-five window.
Recorded xG is incomplete, so xG context is omitted where unavailable.

Known unknowns

Lineups, injuries, suspensions and tactical changes are not available in the retained dataset.
Some metrics are unavailable or below their observation minimum: goals_for, goals_against, xg_for, xg_against, shots, shots_on_target, possession, corners, cards, fouls.
The completed-match sample is too small for broad style conclusions.
The fixture season differs from the competition's configured active season.

Analysis cutoff: Sat, 16 Aug 2025, 18:00 UTC · analysis-v4