Blackburn Rovers 1-1 Wigan Athletic: result and report

Premier League · Monday 3 April 2006

Result

Blackburn Rovers 1-1 Wigan Athletic

Premier League · Monday 3 April 2006, 19:00 UTC · half-time 0-0

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Blackburn Rovers 1-1 Wigan Athletic: match report

Blackburn Rovers drew with Wigan Athletic 1-1 in the Premier League on Monday 3 April 2006. The half-time score was 0-0.

Jason Roberts opened the scoring in the 53rd minute. Blackburn Rovers's goal came from Shefki Kuqi (84'). Wigan Athletic scored through Jason Roberts (53').

Discipline: Blackburn Rovers received no yellow cards; Wigan Athletic received 2 yellow cards.

Going into the game Blackburn Rovers were 6th on 52 points from 31 and Wigan Athletic 9th on 46 points from 31. Blackburn Rovers went on to finish that season 6th with 63 points, and Wigan Athletic 10th with 51.

Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 1 Blackburn Rovers win, 0 draws and 0 for Wigan Athletic.

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

Data as of 3 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 11'Yellow card · Paul ScharnerWigan Athletic
  • 53'Goal · Jason RobertsWigan Athletic · 0-1
  • 60'Yellow card · Jason RobertsWigan Athletic
  • 84'Goal · Shefki KuqiBlackburn Rovers · 1-1

Head-to-head

1 meetings: Blackburn Rovers 1, draws 0, Wigan Athletic 0.

Team news

Blackburn Rovers line-up

Lucas Neill, Zurab Khizanishvili, Steven Reid, Michael Gray, Robbie Savage, Morten Gamst Pedersen, Daniel Bentley, Craig Bellamy, Brad Friedel, Ryan Nelsen, Paul Dickov

Wigan Athletic line-up

John Filan, Pascal Chimbonda, Arjan de Zeeuw, Leighton Baines, Andreas Johansson, Paul Scharner, Jimmy Bullard, Jason Roberts, Lee McCulloch, Graham Kavanagh, Gary Teale