David Lopez nets the injury-time penalty last season
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16:40 1st April 2014
by Ben Soro-Perez
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Albion's last trip to Ewood Park, in January 2013, saw them emerge with a point thanks to David Lopez’s injury-time penalty.
The draw, which had been close to becoming Michael Appleton's first win in charge of Rovers, had seen Blackburn take the lead after Adam El-Abd was deemed to have bundled Morten Gamst Pedersen to the ground on the stroke of half-time, with Jordan Rhodes scoring from the penalty spot.
However, with seconds remaining, David Goodwillie collided with David in the Blackburn area and, once the Spaniard had picked himself up, he made sure of the draw as he fired home from the spot.
The clash marked the first time the two sides had met in the league since 1992 when Albion's last trip north ended in a 1-0 defeat.
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Prior to that, meetings between the two were commonplace in the Seventies and Eighties but Albion's last win on their travels came on September 29, 1990 when they secured a 2-1 win en route to doing the double over their Lancashire rivals that season.
With this trip marking the 16th time Albion will have travelled up to play Blackburn, Oscar Garcia's men will be going in search of only their fourth win away from the south coast.
The first time Albion travelled up to play Rovers was back in the 1967/68 season for a League Cup clash that saw the home side record a convincing 3-1 win before the first league encounter between the two sides ended two apiece.
Of the 15 times Albion have visited Ewood Park, there have been six draws and Rovers have claimed the three points on six occasions.
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