Match Centre: Blackburn Rovers vs Birmingham City
Player of the match Demarai Gray 7.4
GolVolt rating 8.1GolVolt rating
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The match in 30 seconds
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1:0 → 1:2
Birmingham City came from behind to win.
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90+8'
The winner came late: Lyndon Dykes (Birmingham City).
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12 → 6
Birmingham City climb 6 places in the table. Blackburn Rovers: 18 → 21.
Key stats
Why this rating
Four pillars, each measured against the same league over the last 12 months.
Winner at 90+8′.
- Dramaweight 50% Winner at 90+8′, comeback from 0:1.The result hung in the balance and big moments changed the game. Drama: 9.7 out of 10
- Heroesweight 20% Dykes scored the winner.Solid performances, no single big hero. Heroes: 6.1 out of 10
- Stakesweight 15% It mattered for the table but settled nothing. Stakes: 4.0 out of 10
- Quality of playweight 15% Few chances. Quality of play: 0.8 out of 10
Match ECG
A spike = a twist. The shading = how open the result still was.
GolVolt rating 8.1more watchable than 81% of Championship matches
The GolVolt rating comes from four pillars — drama, heroes, stakes and quality of play — measured against this league's matches of the last 12 months (model nap-v2).
Similar matches
A similar story: twists, the finish, chances. Same league, last 12 months.
How the match went
3 goals3 cards
Counts cover only events captured in the retained timeline.
Timeline
- 30' Bright Osayi-Samuelyellow card
- Half-time · 0:0
- 46' SubstitutionLaird for Cochrane
- 50' Goal: Todd CantwellBlackburn Rovers1:0
- 69' SubstitutionMiller for Hedges
- 76' Tomoki Iwatayellow card
- 81' 2 substitutionsDoyle for AndersonDykes for Osayi-Samuel
- 82' SubstitutionWharton for Alebiosu
- 87' 2 substitutionsGueye for OhashiDe Neve for Cantwell
- 88' SubstitutionHenriksson for Kargbo
- 88' SubstitutionWillumsson for Neumann
- 90' Goal: Jay Stansfieldpenalty1:1
- 90+2' SubstitutionCashin for Furuhashi
- 90+8' Goal: Lyndon Dykesassist: Gray1:2
- 90+8' Sean McLoughlinyellow card
- Full-time · 1:2
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Lineups and ratings
The highlighted rating is the player of the match.
Starting XIs · provider ratings
Blackburn Rovers
Birmingham City
Goalkeepers
Defenders
Midfielders
Forwards
Came on
Bench
Blackburn Rovers
- 35 Nicholas Michalski GK —
- 3 Harry Pickering DEF —
- 12 Lewis Miller DEF on
- 14 Dion De Neve DEF on
- 16 Scott Wharton DEF on
- 18 Axel Henriksson MID on
- 31 Kristi Montgomery MID —
- 9 Makhtar Gueye ATT on
- 32 Igor Tyjon ATT —
Birmingham City
- 25 James Beadle GK —
- 2 Ethan Laird DEF on
- 41 Eiran Cashin DEF on
- 7 Tommy Doyle MID on
- 12 Marc Leonard MID —
- 18 Willum Thór Willumsson MID on
- 19 Taylor Gardner-Hickman MID —
- 27 Kanya Fujimoto MID —
- 17 Lyndon Dykes ATT on
Match sheet
- Stadium
- Ewood Park, Blackburn
Player ratings
Ratings from the data provider, scale 1–10.
- Player of the match · Birmingham City Demarai Gray
- 2. place · Birmingham City Ethan Laird
- 3. place · Birmingham City Jay Stansfield
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