Middlesbrough striker Rudy Gestede will be available to face Reading after winning an appeal against a three-match ban. Gestede was sent off 28 minutes into last Saturday’s 1-0 defeat at Norwich for a challenge on Grant Hanley, but the club argued successfully against the decision and the Football Association rescinded the red card. The former Aston Villa frontman was one of two change...Full Story »

Leicester returned to the top of the Barclays Premier League despite being held to a 1-1 draw at Aston Villa. Rudy Gestede rescued a point for the rock bottom hosts and denied the Foxes the chance to move further clear at the summit. Shinji Okazaki opened the scoring but Mark Bunn saved Riyad Mahrez's first-half penalty and the Foxes were made to pay. Arsenal will overtake Claudio Ranieri's s...Full Story »

Rudy Gestede may have to settle for a place on Aston Villa's bench against Manchester United on Friday despite his debut winner last week. The striker, who joined from Blackburn in the summer, scored in the 1-0 win over Bournemouth after coming off the bench but boss Tim Sherwood does not want to rush him after an interrupted pre-season. Jack Grealish (hamstring), Carles Gil (ankle) and Jores ...Full Story »

Rudy Gestede scored 13 minutes into his Aston Villa debut to secure a 1-0 victory at newly-promoted Bournemouth. The 6ft 4ins striker, a B£6million summer arrival from Blackburn, thumped home a header from an Ashley Westwood corner after coming on as a second-half substitute. Bournemouth, making their first top-flight appearance in English football, dominated for large spells but spurne...Full Story »

Rudy Gestede climbed off the bench to burst Bournemouth's bubble and earn Aston Villa a 1-0 win in the season opener at Dean Court on Saturday. Rudy Gestede climbed off the bench to burst Bournemouth's bubble and earn Aston Villa a 1-0 win in the season opener at Dean Court on Saturday. Bournemouth 0 Aston Villa 1Hosts dominate first halfVilla hand debuts to six signingsGradel makes debut of...Full Story »

Millwall's hopes of Sky Bet Championship survival were dealt a huge blow after two late goals were enough to give Blackburn Rovers a 2-0 win. Rudy Gestede's sumptuous volley in the 78th minute finally broke the deadlock for Rovers and substitute Jordan Rhodes settled it in injury time, catching an increasingly desperate Millwall side on the break. For Millwall it was a case of so near, yet so ...Full Story »

A Rudy Gestede hat-trick was not enough to give Blackburn three points as Nottingham Forest fought back three times to earn a 3-3 draw in the Sky Bet Championship. Gestede's hat-trick of headers would have been enough but the visitors' stand-out player, Michail Antonio, sealed a brace of his own by equalising in the final two minutes. Neither side could make the play-offs before the game but c...Full Story »

Rudy Gestede struck a late equaliser against former club Cardiff to earn Blackburn a 1-1 draw at Cardiff City Stadium. Sean Morrison's 84th-minute header looked set to give Cardiff a first win in seven games and ease some of the pressure on manager Russell Slade. But Gestede, sold for just B#200,000 by the Bluebirds in January 2014, kept Rovers' hopes of a late play-off charge alive when he co...Full Story »

Rudy Gestede showed why he is reported to be interesting a number of Premier League sides with the crucial goal as Blackburn sent nine-man Swansea tumbling out of the FA Cup in the fourth round. Kyle Bartley was sent off in only the seventh minute for a denying a clear goalscoring opportunity but Gylfi Sigurdsson put the 10 men ahead in the 21st minute with a glorious strike. However, Rovers l...Full Story »

There was late drama at the Riverside Stadium as Rudy Gestede struck deep in injury-time to extend Blackburn's unbeaten run at Middlesbrough. Patrick Bamford looked to have won it for Boro with seven minutes remaining when he finally found a way to beat Rovers' brilliant goalkeeper Simon Eastwood. But then Gestede was on hand to power in a controversial equaliser when Dimi Konstantopoulos was ...Full Story »