Blackburn Rovers 1-3 Newcastle United: result and report

Blackburn Rovers 1-3 Newcastle United

Premier League · Saturday 9 December 2006, 15:00 UTC · half-time 0-2

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Blackburn Rovers were beaten by Newcastle United 1-3 in the Premier League on Saturday 9 December 2006. It was 0-2 at half-time.

Obafemi Martins opened the scoring in the 31st minute. Blackburn Rovers's goal came from Morten Gamst Pedersen (47'). Newcastle United scored through Obafemi Martins (31'), Steven Taylor (35') and Obafemi Martins (90+3').

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

Going into the game Blackburn Rovers were 14th on 16 points from 15 and Newcastle United 15th on 16 points from 15. Blackburn Rovers went on to finish that season 10th with 52 points, and Newcastle United 13th with 43.

Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 3 Blackburn Rovers wins, 3 draws and 4 for Newcastle United.

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