Manchester United 4-1 Blackburn Rovers: result and report

Premier League · Saturday 31 March 2007

Result

Manchester United 4-1 Blackburn Rovers

Premier League · Saturday 31 March 2007, 14:00 UTC · half-time 0-1

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Manchester United 4-1 Blackburn Rovers: match report

Manchester United defeated Blackburn Rovers 4-1 in the Premier League on Saturday 31 March 2007. It was 0-1 at half-time.

Matt Derbyshire opened the scoring in the 29th minute. Manchester United's goals came from Paul Scholes (61'), Michael Carrick (73'), Park Ji-Sung (82') and Ole Solskjær (89'). Blackburn Rovers scored through Matt Derbyshire (29').

Discipline: Manchester United received 1 yellow card; Blackburn Rovers received 3 yellow cards.

Going into the game Manchester United were 1st on 75 points from 30 and Blackburn Rovers 10th on 40 points from 30. Manchester United went on to finish that season 1st with 89 points, and Blackburn Rovers 10th with 52.

Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 4 Manchester United wins, 2 draws and 4 for Blackburn Rovers.

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

Data as of 3 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 29'Goal · Matt DerbyshireBlackburn Rovers · 0-1
  • 43'Yellow card · David DunnBlackburn Rovers
  • 46'Yellow card · Iván HeinzeManchester United
  • 61'Goal · Paul ScholesManchester United · 1-1
  • 71'Yellow card · Morten Gamst PedersenBlackburn Rovers
  • 73'Goal · Michael CarrickManchester United · 2-1
  • 82'Goal · Park Ji-SungManchester United · 3-1
  • 88'Yellow card · Brett EmertonBlackburn Rovers
  • 89'Goal · Ole SolskjærManchester United · 4-1

Head-to-head

10 meetings: Manchester United 4, draws 2, Blackburn Rovers 4.

Team news

Manchester United expected line-up

Edwin van der Sar, Rio Ferdinand, Wes Brown, John O'Shea, Patrice Evra, Kieran Richardson, Louis Saha, Cristiano Ronaldo, Ryan Giggs, Gary Neville

Blackburn Rovers line-up

Aaron Mokoena, Christopher Samba, Stephen Warnock, Tugay Kerimoglu, Brett Emerton, Morten Gamst Pedersen, Matt Derbyshire, Brad Friedel, Ryan Nelsen, B. McCarthy, David Dunn