Blackburn Rovers 2-1 Aston Villa: result and report
Premier League · Saturday 26 September 2009
Result
Blackburn Rovers 2-1 Aston Villa
Premier League · Saturday 26 September 2009, 14:00 UTC · half-time 1-1
Blackburn Rovers 2-1 Aston Villa: match report
Blackburn Rovers defeated Aston Villa 2-1 in the Premier League on Saturday 26 September 2009. It was 1-1 at half-time.
Gabriel Agbonlahor opened the scoring in the 3rd minute. Blackburn Rovers's goals came from Christopher Samba (24') and David Dunn (88', penalty). Aston Villa scored through Gabriel Agbonlahor (3').
Discipline: Blackburn Rovers received 2 yellow cards and 1 red card; Aston Villa received 3 yellow cards.
Going into the game Blackburn Rovers were 18th on 4 points from 5 and Aston Villa 5th on 12 points from 5. Blackburn Rovers went on to finish that season 10th with 50 points, and Aston Villa 6th with 64.
Blackburn Rovers lined up in a 4-5-1 and Aston Villa in a 4-4-2.
Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 1 Blackburn Rovers win, 2 draws and 7 for Aston Villa.
Going into the match Blackburn Rovers's last five read L-W-D-L-L and Aston Villa's W-W-W-W-L.
Key events
- 3'Goal · Gabriel Agbonlahor
- 24'Goal · Christopher Samba
- 34'Yellow card · Vince Grella
- 55'Yellow card · Fabian Delph
- 60'Yellow card · David Dunn
- 66'Yellow card · Stiliyan Petrov
- 69'Second yellow · Vince Grella
- 88'Penalty goal · David Dunn
- 88'Yellow card · Richard Dunne
Head-to-head
Team news
Blackburn Rovers line-up (4-5-1)
Paul Robinson, Lars Jacobsen, Christopher Samba, Pascal Chimbonda, Vince Grella, Morten Gamst Pedersen, Steven Nzonzi, El-Hadji Diouf, Franco Di Santo, Ryan Nelsen, David Dunn
Aston Villa line-up (4-4-2)
Richard Dunne, Ashley Young, Stephen Warnock, James Collins, James Milner, Stiliyan Petrov, John Carew, Gabriel Agbonlahor, Brad Friedel, Fabian Delph, Carlos Cuéllar