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.
Key events
- 29'Goal · Matt Derbyshire
- 43'Yellow card · David Dunn
- 46'Yellow card · Iván Heinze
- 61'Goal · Paul Scholes
- 71'Yellow card · Morten Gamst Pedersen
- 73'Goal · Michael Carrick
- 82'Goal · Park Ji-Sung
- 88'Yellow card · Brett Emerton
- 89'Goal · Ole Solskjær
Head-to-head
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