Blackburn Rovers 3-1 Portsmouth: result and report

Premier League · Saturday 7 November 2009

Result

Blackburn Rovers 3-1 Portsmouth

Premier League · Saturday 7 November 2009, 15:00 UTC · half-time 0-1

Blackburn Rovers · Portsmouth · Premier League predictions

Blackburn Rovers 3-1 Portsmouth: match report

Blackburn Rovers beat Portsmouth 3-1 in the Premier League on Saturday 7 November 2009. It was 0-1 at half-time.

Jamie O'Hara opened the scoring in the 15th minute. Blackburn Rovers's goals came from Jason Roberts (53'), Ryan Nelsen (73') and Jason Roberts (86'). Portsmouth scored through Jamie O'Hara (15').

Discipline: Blackburn Rovers received 3 yellow cards; Portsmouth received 3 yellow cards.

Going into the game Blackburn Rovers were 18th on 10 points from 10 and Portsmouth 20th on 7 points from 11. Blackburn Rovers went on to finish that season 10th with 50 points, and Portsmouth 20th with 28.

Blackburn Rovers lined up in a 4-4-1-1 and Portsmouth in a 4-1-3-2.

Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 6 Blackburn Rovers wins, 1 draw and 3 for Portsmouth.

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

Data as of 3 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 15'Goal · Jamie O'HaraPortsmouth · 0-1
  • 36'Yellow card · Pascal ChimbondaBlackburn Rovers
  • 36'Yellow card · Jamie O'HaraPortsmouth
  • 38'Yellow card · Gaël Givet-ViarosBlackburn Rovers
  • 41'Yellow card · Ryan NelsenBlackburn Rovers
  • 53'Goal · Jason RobertsBlackburn Rovers · 1-1
  • 57'Yellow card · Kevin-Prince BoatengPortsmouth
  • 66'Yellow card · Michael BrownPortsmouth
  • 73'Goal · Ryan NelsenBlackburn Rovers · 2-1
  • 86'Goal · Jason RobertsBlackburn Rovers · 3-1

Head-to-head

10 meetings: Blackburn Rovers 6, draws 1, Portsmouth 3.

Team news

Blackburn Rovers line-up (4-4-1-1)

Paul Robinson, Christopher Samba, Gaël Givet-Viaros, Pascal Chimbonda, Brett Emerton, Morten Gamst Pedersen, Steven Nzonzi, El-Hadji Diouf, Franco Di Santo, Ryan Nelsen, David Dunn

Portsmouth line-up (4-1-3-2)

Younès Kaboul, Aaron Mokoena, Anthony Vanden Borre, Tal Ben Haim, Marc Wilson, Kevin-Prince Boateng, Frédéric Piquionne, Aruna Dindane, David James, Jamie O'Hara, Michael Brown