Stoke City 3-0 Blackburn Rovers: result and report
Premier League · Saturday 6 February 2010
Result
Stoke City 3-0 Blackburn Rovers
Premier League · Saturday 6 February 2010, 15:00 UTC · half-time 2-0
Stoke City 3-0 Blackburn Rovers: match report
Stoke City beat Blackburn Rovers 3-0 in the Premier League on Saturday 6 February 2010. It was 2-0 at half-time.
Danny Higginbotham opened the scoring in the 8th minute. Stoke City's goals came from Danny Higginbotham (8'), Mamady Sidibé (44') and Matthew Etherington (67'). Blackburn Rovers did not score.
Discipline: Stoke City received 2 yellow cards; Blackburn Rovers received 3 yellow cards and 1 red card.
Going into the game Stoke City were 12th on 26 points from 22 and Blackburn Rovers 11th on 28 points from 24. Stoke City went on to finish that season 11th with 47 points, and Blackburn Rovers 10th with 50.
Stoke City lined up in a 4-4-2 and Blackburn Rovers in a 4-3-3.
Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 1 Stoke City win, 1 draw and 1 for Blackburn Rovers.
Going into the match Stoke City's last five read D-D-W-L-L and Blackburn Rovers's D-W-W-L-D.
Key events
- 8'Goal · Danny Higginbotham
- 37'Yellow card · Christopher Samba
- 37'Yellow card · Ryan Shawcross
- 44'Goal · Mamady Sidibé
- 52'Yellow card · S. Nzonzi
- 59'Second yellow · Christopher Samba
- 67'Goal · Matthew Etherington
- 73'Yellow card · Ricardo Fuller
- 90'Yellow card · Keith Andrews
Head-to-head
Team news
Stoke City expected line-up (4-4-2)
Thomas Sorensen, Abdoulaye Faye, Danny Higginbotham, Andy Griffin, Danny Collins, Andy Wilkinson, Salif Diao, Mamady Sidibé, Sanli Tuncay, Matthew Etherington
Blackburn Rovers line-up (4-3-3)
Paul Robinson, Christopher Samba, Gaël Givet-Viaros, Martin Olsson, Pascal Chimbonda, Brett Emerton, Morten Gamst Pedersen, Steven Nzonzi, Nikola Kalinić, Franco Di Santo, Ryan Nelsen