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Friday 26 December 2025 · 15:00 · HT 0-0 · Riverside, Middlesbrough · Referee James Bell

Middlesbrough v Blackburn Rovers: stats, form and bet builder picks

In Middlesbrough's last 10 home games and Blackburn Rovers's last 10 away games in the Championship before kick-off, both teams scored in 10 of 20, over 2.5 goals in 10 of 20, with 10.3 corners per match (league 10.3) and 3.0 cards (league 3.9).

Overview

Lineups

Bet builder

Form

Table

Match stats

Middlesbrough v Blackburn Rovers, full match

53%

Possession

47%

0.75

Expected goals (xG)

1.23

10

Shots

13

2

Shots on target

2

4

Corners

4

11

Fouls

9

2

Yellow cards

2

0

Red cards

0

2

Offsides

1

Goals and cards

31'

Yellow card

Alexander Gilbert MID

32'

Yellow card

Ryoya Morishita BLA

57'

Yellow card

Moussa Baradji BLA

80'

Yellow card

Hayden Hackney MID

At a glance

Middlesbrough

5th in the table

L

W

Blackburn Rovers

22nd in the table

W

L

D

Last 5, latest first

Top picks

From Middlesbrough's home games and Blackburn Rovers's away games in the Championship this season, before kick-off, with players from the lineups. At least 3 games or starts, one pick per kind of bet. Tap one to see it in the Bet builder.

Match probabilities

How often each happened in Middlesbrough's last 10 home games and Blackburn Rovers's last 10 away games this season, before kick-off, with the league rate beside it.

High

Low

Both teams to score

50%

10/20 games · League 57%

Over 1.5 goals

70%

14/20 games · League 76%

Over 2.5 goals

50%

10/20 games · League 51%

Over 3.5 goals

10%

2/20 games · League 25%

Over 9.5 corners

60%

12/20 games · League 55%

Over 3.5 cards

40%

8/20 games · League 53%

Middlesbrough clean sheet

30%

3/10 games · League 25%

Blackburn Rovers clean sheet

40%

4/10 games · League 25%

Middlesbrough fail to score

10%

1/10 games · League 25%

Blackburn Rovers fail to score

30%

3/10 games · League 25%

Averages per match

Same games, both teams added together

Goals

2.4

League 2.6

Corners

10.3

League 10.3

Cards

3.0

League 3.9

Lineups

Listed by position group: goalkeepers, defenders, midfielders, forwards.

Middlesbrough

4-2-2-2

Confirmed

GOALKEEPER

31

Solomon Brynn

DEFENDERS

2

3

5

12

MIDFIELDERS

7

11

14

17

FORWARDS

9

Tommy Conway

13

David Strelec

SUBSTITUTES

33

6

24

25

10

16

19

27

20

Blackburn Rovers

3-4-1-2

Confirmed

GOALKEEPER

1

Aynsley Pears

DEFENDERS

12

15

19

40

43

MIDFIELDERS

6

Sondre Tronstad

10

Todd Cantwell

25

Ryoya Morishita

FORWARDS

18

Axel Henriksson

23

Yuki Ohashi

SUBSTITUTES

35

3

4

38

5

Taylor Gardner-Hickman

14

24

47

52

Referee: James Bell

12 games in the Championship this season, both teams added together

Cards per game

3.5

League 3.9

Yellow cards per game

3.5

Red cards per game

0.00

Fouls per game

20.8

League 21.5

Penalties per game

0.25

A player sent off for two yellows counts as two cards, so cards can be fewer than yellows plus reds.

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Bet builder stats

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

MID

BLA

Match

League

Goals per match

2.6

2.3

2.4

2.6

Over 0.5

95%

21/22

100%

21/21

98%

42/43

95%

Over 1.5

77%

17/22

81%

17/21

79%

34/43

75%

Over 2.5

55%

12/22

43%

9/21

49%

21/43

51%

Over 3.5

18%

4/22

5%

1/21

12%

5/43

27%

Over 4.5

9%

2/22

0%

0/21

5%

2/43

11%

Bet

MID

BLA

Match

League

Yes

64%

14/22

52%

11/21

58%

25/43

59%

Yes and win

36%

8/22

10%

2/21

19%

Yes and over 2.5 goals

45%

10/22

33%

7/21

40%

17/43

42%

Yes and draw

23%

5/22

19%

4/21

21%

9/43

22%

Yes and loss

5%

1/22

24%

5/21

19%

Yes in both halves

5%

1/22

0%

0/21

2%

1/43

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Bet

MID

BLA

Match

League

Corners per match

10.4

10.2

Over 7.5

86%

18/21

90%

18/20

88%

36/41

78%

Over 8.5

67%

14/21

85%

17/20

76%

31/41

69%

Over 9.5

48%

10/21

70%

14/20

59%

24/41

54%

Over 10.5

38%

8/21

45%

9/20

41%

17/41

42%

Over 11.5

33%

7/21

40%

8/20

37%

15/41

32%

Over 12.5

33%

7/21

20%

4/20

27%

11/41

24%

Referee James Bell: 3.5 cards and 20.8 fouls per game in 12 games this season

Bet

MID

BLA

Match

League

Cards per match

3.9

3.5

3.7

3.8

Over 2.5

68%

15/22

76%

16/21

72%

31/43

75%

Over 3.5

55%

12/22

48%

10/21

51%

22/43

50%

Over 4.5

36%

8/22

24%

5/21

30%

13/43

32%

Over 5.5

18%

4/22

14%

3/21

16%

7/43

20%

Player

First

1+

2+

3+

Morgan Whittaker

18 starts · 0.5 per 90

7%

1/15

44%

8/18

0%

0/18

0%

0/18

Yuki Ohashi

19 starts · 0.3 per 90

11%

2/18

32%

6/19

0%

0/19

0%

0/19

David Strelec

9 starts · 0.4 per 90

38%

3/8

33%

3/9

0%

0/9

0%

0/9

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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

Middlesbrough

Last 5 games before this match

20 Dec

Bristol City

(A)

0-2

L

13 Dec

Queens Park Rangers

(H)

3-1

W

9 Dec

Charlton Athletic

(A)

2-1

W

5 Dec

Hull City

(A)

4-1

W

29 Nov

Derby County

(H)

2-1

W

Blackburn Rovers

Last 5 games before this match

20 Dec

Millwall

(H)

2-0

W

13 Dec

Portsmouth

(A)

1-2

L

9 Dec

Oxford United

(H)

1-1

D

2 Dec

Ipswich Town

(H)

1-1

D

29 Nov

Wrexham

(A)

1-1

D

Head to head

League games since 2025/26 (as far back as our data goes), latest first

Middlesbrough and Blackburn Rovers haven't met in a league game since 2025/26.

Championship table

2025/26 · as it stands now

#

Team

P

W

D

L

F

A

GD

Pts

Form (latest first)

1

Coventry

46

28

11

7

97

45

+52

95

W

D

2

Ipswich

46

23

15

8

80

47

+33

84

W

D

W

D

3

Millwall

46

24

11

64

49

+15

83

W

D

W

D

4

Southampton

46

22

14

10

82

56

+26

80

W

D

W

5

Middlesbrough

46

22

14

10

72

47

+25

80

D

W

D

L

6

Hull City

46

21

10

15

70

66

+4

73

W

L

D

L

7

Wrexham

46

19

14

13

69

65

+4

71

D

L

W

L

8

Derby

46

20

9

17

67

59

+8

69

L

W

L

W

L

9

Norwich

46

19

8

19

63

56

+7

65

L

D

W

L

10

Birmingham

46

17

13

16

57

56

+1

64

D

W

D

W

11

Swansea

46

18

10

18

57

59

-2

64

W

D

W

L

W

12

Bristol City

46

17

11

18

59

0

62

W

L

D

L

D

13

Sheffield Utd

46

18

6

22

66

0

60

W

L

W

14

Preston

46

15

16

55

62

-7

60

L

W

L

W

15

QPR

46

16

10

20

61

73

-12

58

L

D

16

Watford

46

14

15

17

53

65

-12

57

L

17

Stoke City

46

15

10

21

51

56

-5

55

L

D

18

Portsmouth

46

14

13

19

49

64

-15

55

D

W

L

W

19

West Brom

46

13

14

19

48

58

-10

53

L

D

W

D

20

Charlton

46

13

14

19

44

58

-14

53

L

W

L

D

L

21

Leicester

46

12

16

18

58

68

-10

52

W

D

L

22

Blackburn

46

13

20

42

56

-14

52

L

W

D

L

D

23

Oxford Utd

46

11

14

21

45

59

-14

47

L

W

L

W

24

Sheffield Wed

46

2

12

32

29

89

-60

18

W

L

D

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Middlesbrough v Blackburn Rovers: stats, form and bet builder picks

Match stats

Goals and cards

At a glance

Match probabilities

Averages per match

Lineups

Middlesbrough

Blackburn Rovers

Referee: James Bell

Bet builder stats

Match result›

Clean sheet, win to nil, to score›

Total match goals›

Both teams to score›

Total match corners›

Total match cards›

GoalscorerPer start this season›

Player shots on targetPer start this season›

Player to be cardedPer start this season›

Form

Middlesbrough

Blackburn Rovers

Head to head

Championship table