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.

Data as of 3 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 13'Goal · Benni McCarthyBlackburn Rovers · 1-0
  • 17'Yellow card · Richard DunneManchester City
  • 48'Yellow card · David DunnBlackburn Rovers
  • 52'Yellow card · Tugay KerimogluBlackburn Rovers
  • 53'Yellow card · Morten Gamst PedersenBlackburn Rovers
  • 55'Second yellow · Tugay KerimogluBlackburn Rovers
  • 56'Yellow card · Daniel BentleyBlackburn Rovers
  • 65'Second yellow · Richard DunneManchester City
  • 77'Yellow card · Christopher SambaBlackburn Rovers

Head-to-head

10 meetings: Blackburn Rovers 4, draws 5, Manchester City 1.

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