an ill- fated 15 minutes at Ewood Park sent Birmingham city to a seventh straight defeat against Blackburn Rovers Samy schad's double in James Hill strike gave Rovers a 30 lead in 15th half after the scores had been level in first half the blues staged comeback with a brace from sirii demele and Harry Leonard scored in stoppage time to secure 42 win for Rovers Blackburn made most of the early runs and threatened to open up the blues down their right where Cody Dr played in place of Ethan leair the blues managed to withstand the early attack to create the first chance of note unfortunately for blues the task fell to weaker right foot of left back Leu Cannon the defender cleared the bar from 10 yards after Emanuel IIs header was blocked read every word Birmingham city owner Tom Wagner said at open house event read Gary cook Talk's Street Andrew's development in stadium needs Rooney would be pleased to see the next chance fall to dembele the Winger beat his man on the outside before striking his shot off the crossbar one of the Austrian Center back's challenges prevented Rover's first substitute Leonard from testing John Ruddy from close range Jordan James was also heavily involved in the proceedings after being brought into the starting 11 by Rooney the midfielder combined with Jay Stanfield to set up junine bakuna for a shot that went narrowly wide of Leo wallet's goal the blues failed to capitalize on their chances in the first half and fell behind within two minutes of the restart schmod found Acres of space behind the blues defense and recovered before attacking Ruddy Blackburn's top scorer quickly grabbed his second goal the Blues score was once again shocking with schmod once again firing hard at Ruddy who charged after being cleared by lonard within 15 minutes of the restart Rovers had secured a third Hill aimed from afar and Ruddy couldn't block him Rooney was terrified on the touch line and immediately replaced taiu with L dembele's impressive individual goal reduced the delays just after the hour mark he flicked a flick on Callum Britain before firing into the far corner of wallet's goal the ivorian forward continued to fight for the blues and dragged his team back into the match with 12 minutes of normal time left demele played with Blackburn Defenders on the edge of the Box before firing a left footed shot past wallstead the blues tried to equalize but to no avail before Rover's sealed victory in injury time John rdy for Ruddy pulled off a good save from Britain shortly before halftime but the experienced glovan will be disappointed by Rover's first and third goals the first time he was caught in no man's land and the third time he couldn't get enough Cody Dr 5 on his return to the team Dr was sent off several times in the first half the play in the 11 clearly affected his rhythm Deion Sanderson 5 the partnership with iwu is still in development but t