Newcastle United 0-1 Blackburn Rovers: result and report
Premier League · Saturday 21 January 2006
Result
Newcastle United 0-1 Blackburn Rovers
Premier League · Saturday 21 January 2006, 15:00 UTC · half-time 0-0
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Newcastle United 0-1 Blackburn Rovers: match report
Newcastle United were beaten by Blackburn Rovers 0-1 in the Premier League on Saturday 21 January 2006. It was 0-0 at half-time.
The only goal came from Morten Gamst Pedersen of Blackburn Rovers in the 75th minute.
Discipline: Newcastle United received no yellow cards; Blackburn Rovers received 2 yellow cards.
Going into the game Newcastle United were 14th on 26 points from 21 and Blackburn Rovers 9th on 31 points from 21. Newcastle United went on to finish that season 7th with 58 points, and Blackburn Rovers 6th with 63.
Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 4 Newcastle United wins, 3 draws and 2 for Blackburn Rovers.
Going into the match Newcastle United's last five read L-D-L-L-W and Blackburn Rovers's D-W-W-W-L.
Key events
- 60'Yellow card · Ryan Nelsen
- 75'Goal · Morten Gamst Pedersen
- 87'Yellow card · Lucas Neill
Head-to-head
Team news
Newcastle United line-up
Shay Given, Jean-Alain Boumsong Somkong, Titus Bramble, Peter Ramage, Celestine Babayaro, Albert Luque, Michael Chopra, N. Solano, Alan Shearer, Lee Bowyer, Lee Robert Clark
Blackburn Rovers line-up
Lucas Neill, Zurab Khizanishvili, Steven Reid, Michael Gray, Robbie Savage, Morten Gamst Pedersen, Tugay Kerimoglu, Brad Friedel, Ryan Nelsen, Shefki Kuqi, Paul Dickov