Blackburn Rovers 2-1 Portsmouth: result and report

Blackburn Rovers 2-1 Portsmouth

Premier League · Monday 2 January 2006, 19:35 UTC · half-time 2-1

Blackburn Rovers · Portsmouth · Premier League predictions

Blackburn Rovers defeated Portsmouth 2-1 in the Premier League on Monday 2 January 2006. It was 2-1 at half-time.

Matthew Taylor opened the scoring in the 3rd minute. Blackburn Rovers's goals came from Morten Gamst Pedersen (9') and P. Dickov (39'). Portsmouth scored through Matthew Taylor (3').

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

Going into the game Blackburn Rovers were 9th on 27 points from 19 and Portsmouth 18th on 17 points from 20. Blackburn Rovers went on to finish that season 6th with 63 points, and Portsmouth 17th with 38.

Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 3 Blackburn Rovers wins, 0 draws and 1 for Portsmouth.

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