Blackburn Rovers 2-0 Manchester City: result and report

Premier League · Sunday 7 May 2006

Result

Blackburn Rovers 2-0 Manchester City

Premier League · Sunday 7 May 2006, 14:00 UTC · half-time 1-0

Blackburn Rovers · Manchester City · Premier League predictions

Blackburn Rovers 2-0 Manchester City: match report

Blackburn Rovers defeated Manchester City 2-0 in the Premier League on Sunday 7 May 2006. The half-time score was 1-0.

Zurab Khizanishvili opened the scoring in the 35th minute. Blackburn Rovers's goals came from Zurab Khizanishvili (35') and Shefki Kuqi (52'). Manchester City did not score.

Discipline: Blackburn Rovers received 2 yellow cards and 1 red card; Manchester City received 4 yellow cards.

Going into the game Blackburn Rovers were 6th on 60 points from 37 and Manchester City 15th on 43 points from 37. Blackburn Rovers went on to finish that season 6th with 63 points, and Manchester City 15th with 43.

Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 1 Blackburn Rovers win, 5 draws and 1 for Manchester City.

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

Data as of 3 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 35'Goal · Zurab KhizanishviliBlackburn Rovers · 1-0
  • 52'Goal · Shefki KuqiBlackburn Rovers · 2-0
  • 53'Yellow card · Sylvain DistinManchester City
  • 57'Yellow card · Lucas NeillBlackburn Rovers
  • 59'Red card · Tugay KerimogluBlackburn Rovers
  • 63'Yellow card · Micah RichardsManchester City
  • 65'Yellow card · Trevor SinclairManchester City
  • 83'Yellow card · Daniel BentleyBlackburn Rovers
  • 84'Yellow card · Richard DunneManchester City

Head-to-head

7 meetings: Blackburn Rovers 1, draws 5, Manchester City 1.

Team news

Blackburn Rovers line-up

Lucas Neill, Zurab Khizanishvili, Aaron Mokoena, Michael Gray, Robbie Savage, Tugay Kerimoglu, Daniel Bentley, Sergio Peter, Brad Friedel, Shefki Kuqi, Paul Dickov

Manchester City line-up

David Sommeil, Sylvain Distin, Richard Dunne, Micah Richards, Claudio Reyna, Kizito Kiki Musampa, Trevor Sinclair, Darius Vassell, Georgios Samaras, David James, Joey Barton