Blackburn vs Cardiff 2-1

Blackburn beat Cardiff 2-1 at Ewood Park after building a two-goal lead before the interval and then seeing the visitors pull one back after the break. The home side held on through Cardiff's changes and finished with the better shooting numbers.

Andri Guðjohnsen opened the scoring in the 28th minute for Blackburn, and Todd Cantwell made it 2-0 on 38 minutes with an assist from Ryoya Morishita. Blackburn went in 2-0 up at half-time.

Cardiff responded on 53 minutes when Callum Robinson, set up by Jack Moylan, reduced the deficit to 2-1. Cardiff then made two changes on 71 minutes, sending on David Turnbull and Isaak Davies for Joel Colwill and Callum Robinson, and another two on 78 minutes through Ronan Kpakio and Calum Scanlon for Joel Bagan and Dylan Lawlor, but Blackburn kept the lead intact after taking Guðjohnsen and Morishita off in the 63rd and 64th minutes and later replacing Oladapo Afolayan and Kristi Montgomery.

Blackburn had 17 shots to Cardiff's 9 and put 8 on target to Cardiff's 1. Cardiff had 58% of the possession and 460 passes to Blackburn's 327, but Blackburn still finished with 11 corners to 6, an xG of 1.79 to 0.86, and 5 Cardiff saves compared with none for Blackburn.

Blackburn were booked once and Cardiff were not booked. There were no red cards.