Middlesbrough 0-0 Blackburn Rovers — Result, Statistics & Match Review — England - Championship, 26 Dec 2025

📅26/12/2025 · 🕒18:00 Istanbul · GMT+3
Top 2 Score Predictions
1st Score 2-0 2nd Score 1-0
MODEL iddaakolik · Our Predictions
Probability per market · Global + League + Team blend
⏱ Odds and predictions are pre-match — updates freeze from ~20 minutes before kick-off.
Match Result
Home
54%
1.75
Draw
23%
3.54
Away
23%
4.04
Under/Over 2.5
Under 2.5
51%
1.97
Over 2.5
49%
1.75
Both Teams to Score
Yes
51%
1.73
No
49%
1.99
Total Goals
0-1 Goal EV+ ✓
27%
3.59
2-3 Goals
42%
1.81
4-5 Goals
22%
3.25
6+ Goals
9%
11.4
Value flag · 0-1 Goal at 3.59 — our 27% vs market 22.2%. Landed.
Half Time / Full Time
1/1
32%
2.29
1/2
7%
35.0
1/X
6%
13.85
X/1
13%
4.42
X/2
7%
9.29
X/X
10%
5.27
2/1
8%
22.7
2/2
10%
7.15
2/X
7%
15.25
PRO iddaakolik · Analysis Engine
Model vs Market · Probabilities · Discipline
Our call
Middlesbrough win — 54%
Fair price · no betting value
The bookmaker priced every market fairly — no dependable value at these odds, so skipping is the disciplined play.
Our call is our best estimate of the outcome; a value flag is a separate, rarer judgement about the price.
STRENGTH Home Win Under 2.5 — pattern-based signals at fair odds; informational, not a sized bet.
Model vs Market — where we differ
iddaakolik Market EU Bookmakers
54%
Home Win
53%
+0.6pp
23%
Draw
25%
-2.3pp
23%
Away Win
22%
+1.6pp
51%
Under 2.5
47%
+4.2pp
49%
Over 2.5
53%
-4.2pp
51%
BTTS Yes
54%
-3.3pp
49%
BTTS No
46%
+3.3pp
gold — our model green — our served pick grey — EU market (margin removed: each group sums to 100%)
Edge (pp): green = we see more probability than the market · gold = essentially even (±0.5pp) · red = we see less. The Decision above outranks any single row: the engine backs well-supported edges, not merely big ones.
PREVIEW Match Preview Engine
iddaakolik Team Elo · Form · Goals signals
HOME Middlesbrough EU Bookmakers 57%
Head to Head
AWAY Blackburn Rovers EU Bookmakers 25%
-4% / +0% Team Performance vs MarketAll History / Recent Form · above/below bookmaker expectations +3% / +17%
1.50/0.97 Expected GoalsScored / Conceded 1.04/1.34
-9% / +10% Attack / Defense(vs League Avg.) +20% / +11%
51% Ball Possession 49%
15 Total Shots 10
6 Shots on Target 3
6 Corners 5
360 · 79% PassesSuccessful · Accuracy 358 · 78%
28.7 Box TouchesOpposition Penalty Area 16.9
19.9 Crosses 14.1
1.5 Yellow Cards 2.3
H2H Past Meetings
Real recorded figures, averaged over these meetings
HOME Middlesbrough
2W-1D-3L
AWAY Blackburn Rovers
0.83 Avg Goals (FT) 0.83
1.31 xG 1.26
53% Ball Possession 47%
14 Total Shots 10
3 Shots on Target 4
6 Corners 3
378 Passes 335
85% Pass Accuracy 83%
28 Box Touches 19
18 Crosses 16
2 Yellow Cards 1
04.04.2025 Blackburn Rovers Blackburn Rovers 0-2 HT 0-2 Middlesbrough Middlesbrough İNCL
11.01.2025 Middlesbrough Middlesbrough 0-1 HT 0-0 Blackburn Rovers Blackburn Rovers FAK
27.11.2024 Middlesbrough Middlesbrough 0-1 HT 0-0 Blackburn Rovers Blackburn Rovers İNCL
16.03.2024 Middlesbrough Middlesbrough 0-0 HT 0-0 Blackburn Rovers Blackburn Rovers İNCL
16.09.2023 Blackburn Rovers Blackburn Rovers 2-1 HT 1-0 Middlesbrough Middlesbrough İNCL
29.12.2022 Blackburn Rovers Blackburn Rovers 1-2 HT 1-0 Middlesbrough Middlesbrough İNCL
RESULT Match Result
Real recorded figures from this match
HOME Middlesbrough
0-0
AWAY Blackburn Rovers
0.75 xG 1.23
53% Ball Possession 47%
10 Total Shots 13
2 Shots on Target 2
4 Corners 4
371 Passes 314
80% Pass Accuracy 80%
15 Box Touches 26
10 Crosses 25
2 Yellow Cards 2
POST-MATCH Middlesbrough vs Blackburn Rovers
iddaakolik Post-Match Analysis — what we said & what happened

Middlesbrough and Blackburn Rovers fought out a 0-0 stalemate. Neither side could find a way through.

Our pre-match lean was Middlesbrough at 54%, but a lead that slim is closer to a coin-flip than a call — and it fell the other way.

Over 2.5 goals sat near a coin-flip at 49% and both teams to score was close to even at 51%.

On the day, Middlesbrough had 53% of the ball to Blackburn Rovers's 47%, shots finished 10-13, expected goals 0.75 to 1.23.

For context: across their last 6 meetings in our records, Blackburn Rovers led the recent series with 3 wins, 1 drawn. Those games averaged 0.83 goals for Middlesbrough and 0.83 for Blackburn Rovers.

What was the final score of Middlesbrough vs Blackburn Rovers?

Middlesbrough 0-0 Blackburn Rovers in the England - Championship on 26/12/2025. The analysis above shows what our model predicted before kick-off next to what actually happened.

What did the model predict for Middlesbrough vs Blackburn Rovers?

Before kick-off our model rated a Middlesbrough win the most likely single outcome at about 54%, with the full match-result split Middlesbrough 54%, draw 23%, Blackburn Rovers 23%. The final score 0-0 confirmed our model's pre-match leads on Under 2.5 — while Match Result (Middlesbrough), BTTS Yes went the other way.

✗ Match Result (Middlesbrough) ✓ Under 2.5 ✗ BTTS Yes
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