Blackburn Rovers 3-0 Bolton Wanderers: result and report

Premier League · Sunday 21 February 2010

Result

Blackburn Rovers 3-0 Bolton Wanderers

Premier League · Sunday 21 February 2010, 12:00 UTC · half-time 1-0

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Blackburn Rovers 3-0 Bolton Wanderers: match report

Blackburn Rovers beat Bolton Wanderers 3-0 in the Premier League on Sunday 21 February 2010. The half-time score was 1-0.

Nikola Kalinic opened the scoring in the 41st minute. Blackburn Rovers's goals came from Nikola Kalinic (41'), Jason Roberts (73') and Gaël Givet-Viaros (84'). Bolton Wanderers did not score.

Discipline: Blackburn Rovers received no yellow cards; Bolton Wanderers received 1 yellow card.

Going into the game Blackburn Rovers were 12th on 31 points from 26 and Bolton Wanderers 18th on 23 points from 25. Blackburn Rovers went on to finish that season 10th with 50 points, and Bolton Wanderers 14th with 39.

Blackburn Rovers lined up in a 4-3-3 and Bolton Wanderers in a 4-4-2.

Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 4 Blackburn Rovers wins, 4 draws and 2 for Bolton Wanderers.

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

Data as of 3 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 41'Goal · Nikola KalinicBlackburn Rovers · 1-0
  • 73'Goal · Jason RobertsBlackburn Rovers · 2-0
  • 75'Yellow card · Gretar SteinssonBolton Wanderers
  • 84'Goal · Gaël Givet-ViarosBlackburn Rovers · 3-0

Head-to-head

10 meetings: Blackburn Rovers 4, draws 4, Bolton Wanderers 2.

Team news

Blackburn Rovers line-up (4-3-3)

Paul Robinson, Gaël Givet-Viaros, Martin Olsson, Míchel Salgado, Morten Gamst Pedersen, Steven Nzonzi, Keith Andrews, El-Hadji Diouf, Nikola Kalinić, Junior Hoilett, Ryan Nelsen

Bolton Wanderers line-up (4-4-2)

Jussi Jaaskelainen, Zat Knight, Gretar Steinsson, Fabrice Muamba, Chung-yong Lee, Johan Elmander, Paul Robinson, Matthew Taylor, Ricardo Gardner, Kevin Davies, Samuel Ricketts