Championship Β· ENG Β· Round 1

Blackburn Rovers
4 - 2 Full time
Derby County

Ewood Park Β· Blackburn, Lancashire

Lineups

Blackburn Rovers4-2-3-1
AP1Pears
CB2Brittain
HC17Carter
DH5Hyam
HP3Pickering
LT27Travis
ST6Tronstad
TD10βš½β†“87'Dolan
JR11↓65'Rankin-Costello
RH19↓65'Hedges
MG9↓65'Gueye
JV31Vickers
KW2⚽Wilson
CN35⚽Nelson
EC6Cashin
CE20↓86'Elder
KG17↓73'Goudmijn
DO4↓86'Ozoh
BO8↓86'Osborn
TB7↓66'Barkhuizen
KJ19Jackson
NM11Mendez-Laing
Derby County4-3-3

Blackburn Rovers substitutes

14 Andreas Weimann 7.2 βš½β†‘65'
8 Sammie Szmodics 7.8 βš½β†‘65'
23 Yuki Ohashi 7.1 βš½β†‘65'
15 Danny Batth ↑87'
13 Joe Hilton
7 Arnor Sigurdsson
21 John Buckley
18 Dilan Markanday
29 Jack Vale

Coach: John Eustace Β· Unavailable: Adam Forshaw (injury), Sidnei Tavares (injury)

Derby County substitutes

9 James Collins 6.0 ↑66'
32 Ebou Adams 6.2 ↑73'
3 Craig Forsyth ↑86'
16 Liam Thompson ↑86'
22 Tyrese Fornah ↑86'
13 Rohan Luthra
24 Ryan Nyambe
5 Sonny Bradley
39 Dajaune Brown

Coach: Paul Warne Β· Unavailable: Corey Blackett-Taylor (injury), Lars-JΓΈrgen Salvesen (injury), Owen Beck (injury), Patrick Agyemang (injury), Sondre Klingen LangΓ₯s (injury)

Match events

11'Tom Barkhuizen
19'Tyrhys Dolan 1 - 0⚽
Second half
65'↑ Andreas Weimann ↓ Ryan Hedges⇄
65'↑ Sammie Szmodics ↓ Joe Rankin-Costello⇄
65'↑ Yuki Ohashi ↓ Makhtar Gueye⇄
66'↑ James Collins ↓ Tom Barkhuizen⇄
67'Curtis Nelson assist: Nathaniel Mendez-Laing 1 - 1⚽
72'Andreas Weimann assist: Hayden Carter 2 - 1⚽
73'↑ Ebou Adams ↓ Kenzo Goudmijn⇄
76'Sammie Szmodics assist: Callum Brittain 3 - 1⚽
82'James Collins
84'Yuki Ohashi assist: Sammie Szmodics 4 - 1⚽
86'↑ Craig Forsyth ↓ Callum Elder⇄
86'↑ Liam Thompson ↓ Ben Osborn⇄
86'↑ Tyrese Fornah ↓ David Ozoh⇄
87'↑ Danny Batth ↓ Tyrhys Dolan⇄
87'Tyrhys Dolan
88'Kane Wilson assist: Nathaniel Mendez-Laing 4 - 2⚽
90'Eiran Cashin

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Match details

CompetitionChampionship
Kick-off (UTC)Friday, 9 August 2024, 19:00 UTC β€” shown in your local time at the top of this page
StatusFinished

Line-ups, match events and the head-to-head record for this fixture are shown on this page where the data feed publishes them.

Head to head

10Blackburn Rovers wins5Draws5Derby County wins

20 past meetings on record. Biggest Blackburn Rovers win: Derby County 3–0 Blackburn Rovers (2020). Biggest Derby County win: Derby County 0–4 Blackburn Rovers (2020).

8 Mar 2025Derby County 2 - 1 Blackburn RoversChampionship
15 Mar 2022Blackburn Rovers 3 - 1 Derby CountyChampionship
30 Oct 2021Derby County 1 - 2 Blackburn RoversChampionship
16 Apr 2021Blackburn Rovers 2 - 1 Derby CountyChampionship
26 Sep 2020Derby County 0 - 4 Blackburn RoversChampionship
8 Mar 2020Derby County 3 - 0 Blackburn RoversChampionship
7 Dec 2019Blackburn Rovers 1 - 0 Derby CountyChampionship
9 Apr 2019Blackburn Rovers 2 - 0 Derby CountyChampionship
18 Sep 2018Derby County 0 - 0 Blackburn RoversChampionship
28 Feb 2017Blackburn Rovers 1 - 0 Derby CountyChampionship
Show all 20 past meetings
24 Sep 2016Derby County 1 - 2 Blackburn RoversChampionship
24 Feb 2016Derby County 1 - 0 Blackburn RoversChampionship
21 Oct 2015Blackburn Rovers 0 - 0 Derby CountyChampionship
27 Jan 2015Derby County 2 - 0 Blackburn RoversChampionship
17 Sep 2014Blackburn Rovers 2 - 3 Derby CountyChampionship
25 Jan 2014Blackburn Rovers 1 - 1 Derby CountyChampionship
4 Aug 2013Derby County 1 - 1 Blackburn RoversChampionship
13 Apr 2013Blackburn Rovers 2 - 0 Derby CountyChampionship
26 Jan 2013Derby County 0 - 3 Blackburn RoversFA Cup
20 Oct 2012Derby County 1 - 1 Blackburn RoversChampionship