Saturday 16 August 2025 · 15:00 · HT 0-0 · Ewood Park, Blackburn · Referee Oliver Langford
Blackburn Rovers v Birmingham City: stats, form and bet builder picks
Neither side had played a Championship game this season before this match, so there are no figures yet.
Overview
Lineups
Bet builder
Form
Table
Match stats
Blackburn Rovers v Birmingham City, full match
41%
Possession
59%
0.43
Expected goals (xG)
2.00
5
Shots
8
2
Shots on target
4
3
Corners
5
14
Fouls
13
1
Yellow cards
2
0
Red cards
0
3
Offsides
0
Goals and cards
30'
Yellow card
Bright Osayi-Samuel BIR
50'
Goal
Todd Cantwell BLA
76'
Yellow card
Tomoki Iwata BIR
90'
Penalty
Jay Stansfield BIR
90+8'
Goal
Lyndon Dykes BIR
90+8'
Yellow card
Sean McLoughlin BLA
Lineups
Listed by position group: goalkeepers, defenders, midfielders, forwards.
Blackburn Rovers
4-2-3-1
Confirmed
GOALKEEPER
Birmingham City
4-4-1-1
Confirmed
GOALKEEPER
Referee: Oliver Langford
21 games in the Championship this season, both teams added together
Cards per game
3.5
League 3.9
Yellow cards per game
3.4
Red cards per game
0.14
Fouls per game
19.7
League 21.5
Penalties per game
0.14
A player sent off for two yellows counts as two cards, so cards can be fewer than yellows plus reds.
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How often each bet would have won in each team's games this season, before kick-off, with the league rate. Each team column is that team's own record: "Win" is that team winning, "Goals scored" its own goals. "Match", on lines about the whole match, puts both teams' games together. These follow the switches below, so they can differ from the Overview, which always uses the same set of games.
Home/Away
All games
Season
Last 5
Last 10
Confirmed XI only
All players
Both teams home and away, this season.
High
Low
Bet
BLA
BIR
Match
League
Win
0%
0/1
0%
0/1
40%
Draw
0%
0/1
100%
1/1
50%
1/2
20%
Loss
100%
1/1
0%
0/1
40%
Bet
BLA
BIR
League
Clean sheet
0%
0/1
0%
0/1
20%
Win to nil
0%
0/1
0%
0/1
13%
To score
0%
0/1
100%
1/1
80%
Fail to score
100%
1/1
0%
0/1
20%
Bet
BLA
BIR
Match
League
Goals per match
1.0
2.0
1.5
2.8
Over 0.5
100%
1/1
100%
1/1
100%
2/2
93%
Over 1.5
0%
0/1
100%
1/1
50%
1/2
67%
Over 2.5
0%
0/1
0%
0/1
0%
0/2
53%
Over 3.5
0%
0/1
0%
0/1
0%
0/2
27%
Over 4.5
0%
0/1
0%
0/1
0%
0/2
20%
Bet
BLA
BIR
Match
League
Yes
0%
0/1
100%
1/1
50%
1/2
67%
Yes and win
0%
0/1
0%
0/1
27%
Yes and over 2.5 goals
0%
0/1
0%
0/1
0%
0/2
53%
Yes and draw
0%
0/1
100%
1/1
50%
1/2
13%
Yes and loss
0%
0/1
0%
0/1
27%
Yes in both halves
0%
0/1
0%
0/1
0%
0/2
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Bet
BLA
BIR
Match
League
Corners per match
10.0
5.0
7.5
10.3
Over 7.5
100%
1/1
0%
0/1
50%
1/2
87%
Over 8.5
100%
1/1
0%
0/1
50%
1/2
87%
Over 9.5
100%
1/1
0%
0/1
50%
1/2
67%
Over 10.5
0%
0/1
0%
0/1
0%
0/2
33%
Over 11.5
0%
0/1
0%
0/1
0%
0/2
20%
Over 12.5
0%
0/1
0%
0/1
0%
0/2
13%
Referee Oliver Langford: 3.5 cards and 19.7 fouls per game in 21 games this season
Bet
BLA
BIR
Match
League
Cards per match
4.0
5.0
4.5
4.0
Over 2.5
100%
1/1
100%
1/1
100%
2/2
80%
Over 3.5
100%
1/1
100%
1/1
100%
2/2
53%
Over 4.5
0%
0/1
100%
1/1
50%
1/2
40%
Over 5.5
0%
0/1
0%
0/1
0%
0/2
27%
Player
First
1+
2+
3+
Player
1+
2+
3+
Referee Oliver Langford: 3.5 cards and 19.7 fouls per game in 21 games this season
Player
Carded
First card
Sent off
Players listed: the confirmed XI for each side. Players with fewer than 3 starts are listed last, greyed. Per 90 figures show once a player has 90 minutes in the starts picked.
Form
Home / Away
All games
Blackburn Rovers
Last 5 games before this match
Birmingham City
Last 5 games before this match
Head to head
League games since 2025/26 (as far back as our data goes), latest first
Blackburn Rovers and Birmingham City haven't met in a league game since 2025/26.
Championship table
2025/26 · as it stands now
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