Blackburn Rovers 1-0 Manchester City: result and report
Premier League · Sunday 2 September 2007
Result
Blackburn Rovers 1-0 Manchester City
Premier League · Sunday 2 September 2007, 14:00 UTC · half-time 1-0
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Blackburn Rovers 1-0 Manchester City: match report
Blackburn Rovers defeated Manchester City 1-0 in the Premier League on Sunday 2 September 2007. It was 1-0 at half-time.
The only goal came from Benni McCarthy of Blackburn Rovers in the 13th minute.
Discipline: Blackburn Rovers received 5 yellow cards and 1 red card; Manchester City received 1 yellow card and 1 red card.
Going into the game Blackburn Rovers were 11th on 5 points from 3 and Manchester City 5th on 9 points from 4. Blackburn Rovers went on to finish that season 7th with 58 points, and Manchester City 9th with 55.
Blackburn Rovers lined up in a 4-4-2 and Manchester City in a 4-4-2.
Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 4 Blackburn Rovers wins, 5 draws and 1 for Manchester City.
Going into the match Blackburn Rovers's last five read D-D-W and Manchester City's L-W-W-W.
Key events
- 13'Goal · Benni McCarthy
- 17'Yellow card · Richard Dunne
- 48'Yellow card · David Dunn
- 52'Yellow card · Tugay Kerimoglu
- 53'Yellow card · Morten Gamst Pedersen
- 55'Second yellow · Tugay Kerimoglu
- 56'Yellow card · Daniel Bentley
- 65'Second yellow · Richard Dunne
- 77'Yellow card · Christopher Samba
Head-to-head
Team news
Blackburn Rovers line-up (4-4-2)
Stephen Warnock, Christopher Samba, Brett Emerton, Robbie Savage, Daniel Bentley, Morten Gamst Pedersen, Roque Santa Cruz, Brad Friedel, Ryan Nelsen, B. McCarthy, David Dunn
Manchester City line-up (4-4-2)
Kasper Schmeichel, Micah Richards, Vedran Ćorluka, Richard Dunne, Javier Garrido, Michael Johnson, Stephen Ireland, Martin Petrov, Dietmar Hamann, Rolando Bianchi, Elano