FA Cup · ENG · Round 3

Newport County
1 - 2 Full time
Blackburn Rovers

Rodney Parade

Lineups

Newport County5-3-2
JD30Day
DH2Holmes
SB3↓90'Barrow
BD5Davies
JD12Donacien
AH16Hughes
CD27↓83'Dymond
MB33⚽Byrne
ME7↓14'Elito
SB19Boden
AC39Collins
JS30Steele
BM10⚽Marshall
GH5Hanley
DL26Lenihan
TS3Spurr
CT19Taylor
EB31↓46'Bennett
HA21Akpan
CE29↓90'Evans
CB9Brown
TL16↓77'Lawrence
Blackburn Rovers4-4-2

Newport County substitutes

20 Tom Owen-Evans ↑14'
6 Matt Taylor ↑83'
15 Joe Green ↑90'
22 Kieran Parselle
14 Nana Ofori-Twumasi
11 Nathan Ralph
8 Yan Klukowski

Coach: Warren Feeney

Blackburn Rovers substitutes

11 Jordan Rhodes ⚽↑46'
32 Craig Conway ↑77'
2 Adam Henley ↑90'
33 David Raya
14 Marcus Olsson

Coach: Paul Lambert

Match events

8'Ben Marshall (penalty) 0 - 1⚽
10'Chris Brown
14'↑ Tom Owen-Evans ↓ Medy Elito⇄
31'Mark Byrne assist: Daniel Holmes 1 - 1⚽
Second half
46'↑ Jordan Rhodes ↓ Elliott Bennett⇄
47'Tom Lawrence
73'Connor Dymond
75'Jordan Rhodes assist: Tom Lawrence 1 - 2⚽
77'↑ Craig Conway ↓ Tom Lawrence⇄
83'↑ Matt Taylor ↓ Connor Dymond⇄
88'Chris Taylor
90'↑ Adam Henley ↓ Corry Evans⇄
90'↑ Joe Green ↓ Scott Barrow⇄
90'Joe Day

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Match details

CompetitionFA Cup
Kick-off (UTC)Monday, 18 January 2016, 19:15 UTC — shown in your local time at the top of this page
StatusFinished

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