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

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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.

Data as of 3 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 6'Goal · Didier DrogbaChelsea · 0-1
  • 70'Goal · El-Hadji DioufBlackburn Rovers · 1-1
  • 88'Yellow card · Yury ZhirkovChelsea

Head-to-head

10 meetings: Blackburn Rovers 1, draws 1, Chelsea 8.

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