Blackburn Rovers 0-1 Arsenal: result and report

Premier League · Saturday 19 March 2005

Result

Blackburn Rovers 0-1 Arsenal

Premier League · Saturday 19 March 2005, 12:45 UTC · half-time 0-1

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Blackburn Rovers 0-1 Arsenal: match report

Blackburn Rovers lost to Arsenal 0-1 in the Premier League on Saturday 19 March 2005. The half-time score was 0-1.

The only goal came from Robin van Persie of Arsenal in the 43rd minute.

Discipline: Blackburn Rovers received 3 yellow cards; Arsenal received 1 yellow card.

Going into the game Blackburn Rovers were 14th on 32 points from 29 and Arsenal 3rd on 61 points from 29. Blackburn Rovers went on to finish that season 15th with 42 points, and Arsenal 2nd with 83.

Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 2 Blackburn Rovers wins, 1 draw and 4 for Arsenal.

Going into the match Blackburn Rovers's last five read D-W-W-L-L and Arsenal's W-D-W-W-L.

Data as of 3 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 43'Goal · Robin van PersieArsenal · 0-1
  • 61'Yellow card · Gaël ClichyArsenal
  • 72'Yellow card · Paul DickovBlackburn Rovers
  • 90'Yellow card · Lucas NeillBlackburn Rovers
  • 90'Yellow card · Steven ReidBlackburn Rovers

Head-to-head

7 meetings: Blackburn Rovers 2, draws 1, Arsenal 4.

Team news

Blackburn Rovers expected line-up

Lucas Neill, Nils-Eric Johansson, Steven Reid, James McEveley, Brett Emerton, Tugay Kerimoglu, Paul Gallagher, Brad Friedel, Andy Todd, Paul Dickov, Barry Ferguson