Blackburn Rovers 1-1 Birmingham City: result and report

Premier League · Saturday 9 April 2011

Result

Blackburn Rovers 1-1 Birmingham City

Premier League · Saturday 9 April 2011, 14:00 UTC · half-time 1-1

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Blackburn Rovers 1-1 Birmingham City: match report

Blackburn Rovers drew with Birmingham City 1-1 in the Premier League on Saturday 9 April 2011. It was 1-1 at half-time.

Lee Bowyer opened the scoring in the 32nd minute. Blackburn Rovers's goal came from Junior Hoilett (45+6'). Birmingham City scored through Lee Bowyer (32').

Discipline: Blackburn Rovers received 2 yellow cards; Birmingham City received 3 yellow cards.

Going into the game Blackburn Rovers were 14th on 34 points from 31 and Birmingham City 15th on 34 points from 30. Blackburn Rovers went on to finish that season 15th with 43 points, and Birmingham City 18th with 39.

Blackburn Rovers lined up in a 4-4-2 and Birmingham City in a 4-4-2.

Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 3 Blackburn Rovers wins, 2 draws and 5 for Birmingham City.

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

Data as of 3 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 2'Yellow card · Martin OlssonBlackburn Rovers
  • 32'Goal · Lee BowyerBirmingham City · 0-1
  • 45+6'Goal · Junior HoilettBlackburn Rovers · 1-1
  • 67'Yellow card · Craig GardnerBirmingham City
  • 71'Yellow card · Jermaine JonesBlackburn Rovers
  • 80'Yellow card · Sebastian LarssonBirmingham City
  • 85'Yellow card · Stephen CarrBirmingham City

Head-to-head

10 meetings: Blackburn Rovers 3, draws 2, Birmingham City 5.

Team news

Blackburn Rovers line-up (4-4-2)

Paul Robinson, Martin Olsson, Christopher Samba, Míchel Salgado, Phil Jones, Jermaine Jones, Morten Gamst Pedersen, Roque Santa Cruz, Junior Hoilett, Ryan Nelsen, David Dunn

Birmingham City line-up (4-4-2)

Ben Foster, Stephen Carr, Roger Johnson, Liam Ridgewell, Stuart Parnaby, Sebastian Larsson, Craig Gardner, Kevin Phillips, Cameron Jerome, Lee Bowyer, Barry Ferguson