Blackburn Rovers 1-3 Fulham: result and report

Premier League · Saturday 7 May 2005

Result

Blackburn Rovers 1-3 Fulham

Premier League · Saturday 7 May 2005, 14:00 UTC · half-time 1-1

Blackburn Rovers · Fulham · Premier League predictions

Blackburn Rovers 1-3 Fulham: match report

Blackburn Rovers lost to Fulham 1-3 in the Premier League on Saturday 7 May 2005. The half-time score was 1-1.

Lucas Neill opened the scoring in the 6th minute. Blackburn Rovers's goal came from Lucas Neill (6'). Fulham scored through Steed Malbranque (20'), Brian McBride (53') and Steed Malbranque (77').

Discipline: Blackburn Rovers received 2 yellow cards and 1 red card; Fulham received 2 yellow cards and 1 red card.

Going into the game Blackburn Rovers were 14th on 41 points from 36 and Fulham 16th on 38 points from 36. Blackburn Rovers went on to finish that season 15th with 42 points, and Fulham 13th with 44.

Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 5 Blackburn Rovers wins, 0 draws and 2 for Fulham.

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

Data as of 3 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 6'Goal · Lucas NeillBlackburn Rovers · 1-0
  • 20'Goal · Steed MalbranqueFulham · 1-1
  • 37'Yellow card · Lucas NeillBlackburn Rovers
  • 53'Goal · Brian McBrideFulham · 1-2
  • 69'Red card · Craig ShortBlackburn Rovers
  • 69'Yellow card · Boa MorteFulham
  • 70'Red card · Liam RoseniorFulham
  • 75'Yellow card · Jon SteadBlackburn Rovers
  • 77'Goal · Steed MalbranqueFulham · 1-3
  • 90'Yellow card · Mark PembridgeFulham

Head-to-head

7 meetings: Blackburn Rovers 5, draws 0, Fulham 2.

Team news

Blackburn Rovers line-up

Lucas Neill, Nils-Eric Johansson, Aaron Mokoena, Steven Reid, Brett Emerton, Morten Gamst Pedersen, Robbie Savage, Jon Stead, Brad Friedel, Craig Short, Ryan Nelsen

Fulham line-up

Edwin van der Sar, Moritz Volz, Zat Knight, Alain Goma, Steed Malbranque, Boa Morte, Brian McBride, Tomasz Radzinski, Mark Pembridge, Lee Robert Clark, Liam Rosenior