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Match Recap
Blackburn turned a routine home game into a statement win, breaking Championship form with two second-half goals before West Ham snatched a late reply. Andri Guðjohnsen opened the scoring in the 54th minute, and Oladapo Afolayan doubled the lead in the 71st, giving Rovers a cushion they'd need. Joel Piroe pulled one back for the Hammers in the 82nd minute, but it was too little, too late. The result is a timely lift for Blackburn, who sit 14th on 18 points after a stop-start run of form (LLWLW), while West Ham, despite the defeat, remain comfortably placed eighth on 23 points. Neither side touched the league's scoring charts, where W. Lankshear still leads with 18 goals, but this one didn't need a star name to deliver drama. Watch how Guðjohnsen and Afolayan combined to put Blackburn two goals clear, and see Piroe's 82nd-minute strike that made the closing stages far tenser than Rovers would have liked.
