Blackburn Rovers 0-2 Arsenal: result and report
Premier League · Saturday 13 January 2007
Result
Blackburn Rovers 0-2 Arsenal
Premier League · Saturday 13 January 2007, 17:15 UTC · half-time 0-1
Blackburn Rovers 0-2 Arsenal: match report
Blackburn Rovers lost to Arsenal 0-2 in the Premier League on Saturday 13 January 2007. The half-time score was 0-1.
Kolo Touré opened the scoring in the 37th minute. Blackburn Rovers did not score. Arsenal scored through Kolo Touré (37') and Thierry Henry (71').
Discipline: Blackburn Rovers received 1 yellow card; Arsenal received no yellow cards and 1 red card.
Going into the game Blackburn Rovers were 11th on 28 points from 21 and Arsenal 5th on 39 points from 22. Blackburn Rovers went on to finish that season 10th with 52 points, and Arsenal 4th with 68.
Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 3 Blackburn Rovers wins, 0 draws and 7 for Arsenal.
Going into the match Blackburn Rovers's last five read W-W-W-L-W and Arsenal's W-L-W-W-D.
Key events
- 13'Yellow card · Robbie Savage
- 13'Red card · Gilberto Silva
- 37'Goal · Kolo Touré
- 71'Goal · Thierry Henry
Head-to-head
Team news
Blackburn Rovers line-up
Lucas Neill, Zurab Khizanishvili, Aaron Mokoena, Andre Ooijer, Brett Emerton, Robbie Savage, Morten Gamst Pedersen, Matt Derbyshire, Brad Friedel, B. McCarthy, Stephane Henchoz
Arsenal line-up
Jens Lehmann, Kolo Touré, Philippe Senderos, Gaël Clichy, Justin Hoyte, Cesc Fàbregas, Tomáš Rosický, Alexander Hleb, Gilberto Silva, Robin van Persie, Thierry Henry