Blackburn Rovers 2-3 Manchester City: result and report

Premier League · Monday 25 August 2003

Result

Blackburn Rovers 2-3 Manchester City

Premier League · Monday 25 August 2003, 19:00 UTC · half-time 1-1

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Blackburn Rovers 2-3 Manchester City: match report

Blackburn Rovers were beaten by Manchester City 2-3 in the Premier League on Monday 25 August 2003. It was 1-1 at half-time.

Michael Tarnat opened the scoring in the 3rd minute. Blackburn Rovers's goals came from an own goal by Trevor Sinclair (44') and L. Amoruso (61'). Manchester City scored through Michael Tarnat (3'), Joey Barton (59') and Nicolas Anelka (87').

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

Going into the game Blackburn Rovers were 4th on 4 points from 2 and Manchester City 5th on 4 points from 2. Blackburn Rovers went on to finish that season 15th with 44 points, and Manchester City 16th with 41.

Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 1 Blackburn Rovers win, 1 draw and 0 for Manchester City.

Data as of 3 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 3'Goal · Michael TarnatManchester City · 0-1
  • 27'Yellow card · Tugay KerimogluBlackburn Rovers
  • 33'Yellow card · Sylvain DistinManchester City
  • 35'Yellow card · Lucas NeillBlackburn Rovers
  • 44'Own goal · Trevor SinclairBlackburn Rovers · 1-1
  • 59'Goal · Joey BartonManchester City · 1-2
  • 61'Goal · L. AmorusoBlackburn Rovers · 2-2
  • 87'Goal · Nicolas AnelkaManchester City · 2-3

Head-to-head

2 meetings: Blackburn Rovers 1, draws 1, Manchester City 0.

Team news

Manchester City line-up

David Seaman, David Sommeil, Sylvain Distin, Michael Tarnat, Trevor Sinclair, Shaun Wright-Phillips, Nicolas Anelka, Antoine Sibierski, Sun Jihai, Joey Barton, Paul Bosvelt