Blackburn Rovers 0-3 Newcastle United: result and report

Premier League · Sunday 18 September 2005

Result

Blackburn Rovers 0-3 Newcastle United

Premier League · Sunday 18 September 2005, 13:00 UTC · half-time 0-0

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Blackburn Rovers 0-3 Newcastle United: match report

Blackburn Rovers were beaten by Newcastle United 0-3 in the Premier League on Sunday 18 September 2005. It was 0-0 at half-time.

A. Shearer opened the scoring in the 62nd minute. Blackburn Rovers did not score. Newcastle United scored through A. Shearer (62'), Michael Owen (66') and Charles N'Zogbia (85').

Discipline: Blackburn Rovers received 1 yellow card; Newcastle United received 4 yellow cards.

Going into the game Blackburn Rovers were 13th on 5 points from 5 and Newcastle United 19th on 2 points from 5. Blackburn Rovers went on to finish that season 6th with 63 points, and Newcastle United 7th with 58.

Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 2 Blackburn Rovers wins, 3 draws and 3 for Newcastle United.

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

Data as of 3 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 2'Yellow card · Lucas NeillBlackburn Rovers
  • 28'Yellow card · Jordan ArcherNewcastle United
  • 31'Yellow card · Jean-Alain Boumsong SomkongNewcastle United
  • 33'Yellow card · Shay GivenNewcastle United
  • 62'Goal · A. ShearerNewcastle United · 0-1
  • 66'Goal · Michael OwenNewcastle United · 0-2
  • 79'Yellow card · Celestine BabayaroNewcastle United
  • 85'Goal · Charles N'ZogbiaNewcastle United · 0-3

Head-to-head

8 meetings: Blackburn Rovers 2, draws 3, Newcastle United 3.

Team news

Blackburn Rovers line-up

Lucas Neill, Zurab Khizanishvili, Steven Reid, Aaron Mokoena, Vratislav Gresko, Robbie Savage, Morten Gamst Pedersen, Daniel Bentley, Craig Bellamy, Brad Friedel, Ryan Nelsen

Newcastle United line-up

Shay Given, Stephen Carr, Jean-Alain Boumsong Somkong, Steven Taylor, Celestine Babayaro, Charles N'Zogbia, Amdy Faye, Michael Owen, Alan Shearer, Lee Bowyer, Lee Robert Clark