Wigan Athletic 0-3 Blackburn Rovers: result and report

Wigan Athletic 0-3 Blackburn Rovers

Premier League · Saturday 31 December 2005, 15:00 UTC · half-time 0-1

Wigan Athletic · Blackburn Rovers · Premier League predictions

Wigan Athletic lost to Blackburn Rovers 0-3 in the Premier League on Saturday 31 December 2005. The half-time score was 0-1.

Morten Gamst Pedersen opened the scoring in the 15th minute. Wigan Athletic did not score. Blackburn Rovers scored through Morten Gamst Pedersen (15'), Steven Reid (53') and Craig Bellamy (85').

Discipline: Wigan Athletic received 1 yellow card; Blackburn Rovers received 1 yellow card.

Going into the game Wigan Athletic were 5th on 34 points from 19 and Blackburn Rovers 12th on 24 points from 18. Wigan Athletic went on to finish that season 10th with 51 points, and Blackburn Rovers 6th with 63.

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