Chelsea 4-0 Blackburn Rovers: result and report
Premier League · Saturday 23 October 2004
Result
Chelsea 4-0 Blackburn Rovers
Premier League · Saturday 23 October 2004, 14:00 UTC · half-time 2-0
Chelsea 4-0 Blackburn Rovers: match report
Chelsea won against Blackburn Rovers 4-0 in the Premier League on Saturday 23 October 2004. The half-time score was 2-0.
Eiður Guðjohnsen opened the scoring in the 37th minute. Chelsea's goals came from Eiður Guðjohnsen (37'), Eiður Guðjohnsen (38'), Eiður Guðjohnsen (51', penalty) and Damien Duff (74'). Blackburn Rovers did not score.
Discipline: Chelsea received 1 yellow card; Blackburn Rovers received 2 yellow cards.
Going into the game Chelsea were 3rd on 20 points from 9 and Blackburn Rovers 18th on 6 points from 9. Chelsea went on to finish that season 1st with 95 points, and Blackburn Rovers 15th with 42.
Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 2 Chelsea wins, 3 draws and 1 for Blackburn Rovers.
Going into the match Chelsea's last five read L-W-W-D-D and Blackburn Rovers's L-D-L-W-L.
Key events
- 19'Yellow card · G. Flitcroft
- 37'Goal · Eiður Guðjohnsen
- 38'Goal · Eiður Guðjohnsen
- 41'Yellow card · Scott Parker
- 51'Penalty goal · Eiður Guðjohnsen
- 74'Goal · Damien Duff
- 76'Yellow card · Lucas Neill