Blackburn Rovers 1-1 Chelsea: result and report
Premier League · Sunday 21 March 2010
Result
Blackburn Rovers 1-1 Chelsea
Premier League · Sunday 21 March 2010, 16:00 UTC · half-time 0-1
Blackburn Rovers 1-1 Chelsea: match report
Blackburn Rovers drew with Chelsea 1-1 in the Premier League on Sunday 21 March 2010. It was 0-1 at half-time.
Didier Drogba opened the scoring in the 6th minute. Blackburn Rovers's goal came from El-Hadji Diouf (70'). Chelsea scored through Didier Drogba (6').
Discipline: Blackburn Rovers received no yellow cards; Chelsea received 1 yellow card.
Going into the game Blackburn Rovers were 13th on 34 points from 29 and Chelsea 3rd on 64 points from 29. Blackburn Rovers went on to finish that season 10th with 50 points, and Chelsea 1st with 86.
Blackburn Rovers lined up in a 4-4-2 and Chelsea in a 4-3-3.
Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 1 Blackburn Rovers win, 1 draw and 8 for Chelsea.
Going into the match Blackburn Rovers's last five read L-L-W-W-L and Chelsea's W-L-W-L-W.
Key events
- 6'Goal · Didier Drogba
- 70'Goal · El-Hadji Diouf
- 88'Yellow card · Yury Zhirkov
Head-to-head
Team news
Blackburn Rovers line-up (4-4-2)
Christopher Samba, Martin Olsson, Míchel Salgado, Phil Jones, Morten Gamst Pedersen, Steven Nzonzi, Keith Andrews, El-Hadji Diouf, Nikola Kalinić, David Dunn, Jason Brown
Chelsea expected line-up (4-3-3)
Petr Čech, John Terry, Branislav Ivanović, Ashley Cole, Alex, Florent Malouda, John Mikel Obi, Michael Essien, Michael Ballack, Nicolas Anelka, Didier Drogba