Blackburn Rovers 2-2 Liverpool: result and report

Premier League · Saturday 30 October 2004

Result

Blackburn Rovers 2-2 Liverpool

Premier League · Saturday 30 October 2004, 16:15 UTC · half-time 2-1

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Blackburn Rovers 2-2 Liverpool: match report

Blackburn Rovers drew with Liverpool 2-2 in the Premier League on Saturday 30 October 2004. It was 2-1 at half-time.

John Arne Semundseth Riise opened the scoring in the 7th minute. Blackburn Rovers's goals came from Jay Bothroyd (16') and Brett Emerton (45'). Liverpool scored through John Arne Semundseth Riise (7') and Milan Baros (54').

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

Going into the game Blackburn Rovers were 20th on 6 points from 10 and Liverpool 7th on 16 points from 9. Blackburn Rovers went on to finish that season 15th with 42 points, and Liverpool 5th with 58.

Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 0 Blackburn Rovers wins, 3 draws and 3 for Liverpool.

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

Data as of 3 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 7'Goal · John Arne Semundseth RiiseLiverpool · 0-1
  • 16'Goal · Jay BothroydBlackburn Rovers · 1-1
  • 45'Yellow card · JosemiLiverpool
  • 45'Goal · Brett EmertonBlackburn Rovers · 2-1
  • 54'Goal · Milan BarosLiverpool · 2-2
  • 61'Yellow card · Tugay KerimogluBlackburn Rovers
  • 69'Yellow card · Jon SteadBlackburn Rovers

Head-to-head

6 meetings: Blackburn Rovers 0, draws 3, Liverpool 3.

Team news

Blackburn Rovers line-up

Lucas Neill, Nils-Eric Johansson, Steven Reid, James McEveley, Brett Emerton, Tugay Kerimoglu, Brad Friedel, Craig Short, Paul Dickov, Barry Ferguson, Jay Bothroyd