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<\/p>\nEmil Riis and Scott Twine helped Bristol City come from behind to beat Blackburn Rovers at Ewood Park.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Yuki \u014chashi scored his second goal in two games to give his side the lead, but the lead only lasted for ten minutes as Riis levelled in fine fashion in the 17th minute.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Twine added the crucial second goal before half-time, snatching all three points after two games without a win.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Gerhard Struber made five changes to the side that suffered a narrow defeat to Swansea as Riis, Twine, Cam Pring, \u00a0Mark Sykes and Sam Morsy all came in from the start.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The Robins\u2019 attention swiftly turns to Watford at home on Friday, February 27th, at 8pm.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Despite a promising and direct start to the game, Rovers opened the scoring after six minutes when Ryoya Morishita sailed past Rob Atkinson, finding Ohashi, who rifled the ball into the back of the City goal.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Unphased, the Robins\u2019 brilliant reaction would see Tomi Horvat sliding the ball to Jason Knight, powering into the area before forcing a brilliant goal-saving stop one-on-one.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Riis would call Bal\u00e1z T\u00f3th into action yet again, this time with a diving save down low to his left before Scott Twine shot over from the edge of the area.\u00a0<\/p>\n
17 minutes in, City were level after Pring\u2019s cross deflected kindly for Riis, who, after calmly controlling the ball on his thigh, volleyed the ball into the far corner from inside the area.\u00a0<\/p>\n
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Eyeing a second goal, Morsy\u2019s smart pass to Riis saw the forward take on two Rovers defenders before squaring the ball for Sykes, who couldn\u2019t keep his strike down.\u00a0<\/p>\n
With the momentum in the Robins\u2019 favour, Horvat showed his range, coming agonisingly close to putting his side ahead after hitting the post from distance. \u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
Just after the half-hour mark, the visitors were in front through Twine, netting his ninth of the season, meeting Riis\u2019s cutback with a sublime volley into the top corner.\u00a0<\/p>\n
After the break, the hosts squandered an opportunity to level the game when Mathias J\u00f8rgensen met Ryan Alebiosu\u2019s cross, heading wide of City\u2019s goal.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Morishita tried his luck from distance but couldn\u2019t beat V\u00edtek before George Tanner made a firm tackle to deny Andri Gudjohnsen an almost certain goalscoring opportunity at close range.\u00a0<\/p>\n
T\u00f3th made another top save in the 75th minute, keeping out Horvat\u2019s free kick, which looked destined for the top corner.\u00a0<\/p>\n
City produced another superb piece of defending, firstly V\u00edtek denying Dion De Neve from point blank range, before Sykes threw himself at Kristi Montgomery\u2019s effort to maintain their lead.\u00a0<\/p>\n
V\u00edtek made another critical save at the death to deny Moussa Baradji from close range to ensure City claimed maximum points after a gritty and hard-fought performance.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Starting XI: V\u00edtek; Tanner, Eile, Atkinson (Borges 45\u2019);Sykes Morsy (Randell 58\u2019), Knight (C), Pring; Horvat (Bird 90+2\u2019), Twine (Burgzorg 58\u2019); Riis (Armstrong 58\u2019).<\/p>\n
Subs not used: Lumley, Naylor, Earthy, Bell,<\/p>\n
Yellow cards: Morsy, Knight<\/p>\n
Att: 10,999 (422 away)<\/p>\n
UP NEXT AT ASHTON GATE<\/p>\n
Bristol City host Watford in the Sky Bet Championship on Friday, February 27th at 8pm.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Emil Riis and Scott Twine helped Bristol City come from behind to beat Blackburn Rovers at Ewood Park.\u00a0…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":787222,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[8818],"tags":[55796,29504,381,18228,748,393,4884,122283,16,15],"class_list":["post-787221","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bristol","tag-2025-26","tag-blackburn-rovers","tag-bristol","tag-bristol-city","tag-britain","tag-england","tag-great-britain","tag-sky-bet-championship","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116129220871984901","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/787221","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=787221"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/787221\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/787222"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=787221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=787221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=787221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}