Blackburn Rovers 3-1 Fulham: result and report
Premier League · Saturday 14 January 2012
Result
Blackburn Rovers 3-1 Fulham
Premier League · Saturday 14 January 2012, 15:00 UTC · half-time 1-0
Blackburn Rovers 3-1 Fulham: match report
Blackburn Rovers beat Fulham 3-1 in the Premier League on Saturday 14 January 2012. It was 1-0 at half-time.
Morten Gamst Pedersen opened the scoring in the 45th minute. Blackburn Rovers's goals came from Morten Gamst Pedersen (45+3'), David Dunn (46') and Mauro Formica (79'). Fulham scored through D. Duff (56').
Discipline: Blackburn Rovers received 1 yellow card and 1 red card; Fulham received 1 yellow card.
Going into the game Blackburn Rovers were 20th on 14 points from 20 and Fulham 14th on 23 points from 20. Blackburn Rovers went on to finish that season 19th with 31 points, and Fulham 9th with 52.
Blackburn Rovers lined up in a 4-1-4-1 and Fulham in a 4-3-3.
Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 3 Blackburn Rovers wins, 5 draws and 2 for Fulham.
Going into the match Blackburn Rovers's last five read L-W-D-L-L and Fulham's W-D-D-L-W.
Key events
- 23'Red card · Yakubu Aiyegbeni
- 45+3'Goal · Morten Gamst Pedersen
- 46'Goal · David Dunn
- 56'Goal · D. Duff
- 76'Yellow card · Morten Gamst Pedersen
- 79'Goal · Mauro Formica
- 87'Yellow card · Philippe Senderos
Head-to-head
Team news
Blackburn Rovers line-up (4-1-4-1)
Paul Robinson, Martin Olsson, Gaël Givet-Viaros, Grant Hanley, Morten Gamst Pedersen, Radosav Petrovic, Steven Nzonzi, Jason Lowe, Junior Hoilett, Yakubu Aiyegbeni, David Dunn
Fulham line-up (4-3-3)
David Adam Stockdale, Damien Duff, Stephen Kelly, John Arne Semundseth Riise, Brede Hangeland, Philippe Senderos, Danny Murphy, Mousa Dembélé, Clint Dempsey, Bobby Zamora, Bryan Ruiz