Blackburn Rovers 2-1 Birmingham City: result and report

Premier League · Wednesday 24 March 2010

Result

Blackburn Rovers 2-1 Birmingham City

Premier League · Wednesday 24 March 2010, 20:00 UTC · half-time 1-0

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Blackburn Rovers 2-1 Birmingham City: match report

Blackburn Rovers beat Birmingham City 2-1 in the Premier League on Wednesday 24 March 2010. The half-time score was 1-0.

David Dunn opened the scoring in the 5th minute. Blackburn Rovers's goals came from David Dunn (5') and David Dunn (67'). Birmingham City scored through James McFadden (55').

Discipline: Blackburn Rovers received 2 yellow cards; Birmingham City received 1 yellow card.

Going into the game Blackburn Rovers were 13th on 35 points from 30 and Birmingham City 9th on 44 points from 30. Blackburn Rovers went on to finish that season 10th with 50 points, and Birmingham City 9th with 50.

Blackburn Rovers lined up in a 4-5-1 and Birmingham City in a 4-4-1-1.

Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 3 Blackburn Rovers wins, 3 draws and 4 for Birmingham City.

Going into the match Blackburn Rovers's last five read D-L-L-W-W and Birmingham City's L-D-W-W-L.

Data as of 3 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 5'Goal · David DunnBlackburn Rovers · 1-0
  • 55'Goal · James McFaddenBirmingham City · 1-1
  • 67'Yellow card · David DunnBlackburn Rovers
  • 67'Goal · David DunnBlackburn Rovers · 2-1
  • 86'Yellow card · Stephen CarrBirmingham City
  • 90'Yellow card · Keith AndrewsBlackburn Rovers

Head-to-head

10 meetings: Blackburn Rovers 3, draws 3, Birmingham City 4.

Team news

Blackburn Rovers line-up (4-5-1)

Christopher Samba, Martin Olsson, Míchel Salgado, Phil Jones, Morten Gamst Pedersen, Steven Nzonzi, Keith Andrews, El-Hadji Diouf, Nikola Kalinić, David Dunn, Jason Brown

Birmingham City line-up (4-4-1-1)

Joe Hart, Stephen Carr, Liam Ridgewell, Roger Johnson, Scott Dann, Keith Fahey, Craig Gardner, Cameron Jerome, James McFadden, Lee Bowyer, Barry Ferguson