Blackburn Rovers 4-2 Manchester City: result and report

Premier League · Sunday 17 September 2006

Result

Blackburn Rovers 4-2 Manchester City

Premier League · Sunday 17 September 2006, 13:00 UTC · half-time 2-2

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Blackburn Rovers 4-2 Manchester City: match report

Blackburn Rovers beat Manchester City 4-2 in the Premier League on Sunday 17 September 2006. It was 2-2 at half-time.

Blackburn Rovers's goals came from an own goal by Trevor Sinclair (18'), Morten Gamst Pedersen (44'), Benni McCarthy (66') and Paul Gallagher (89'). Manchester City scored through Joey Barton (39') and an own goal by Andre Ooijer (45').

Discipline: Blackburn Rovers received 2 yellow cards; Manchester City received 3 yellow cards.

Going into the game Blackburn Rovers were 20th on 2 points from 4 and Manchester City 13th on 4 points from 4. Blackburn Rovers went on to finish that season 10th with 52 points, and Manchester City 14th with 42.

Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 2 Blackburn Rovers wins, 5 draws and 1 for Manchester City.

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

Data as of 3 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 18'Own goal · Trevor SinclairBlackburn Rovers · 1-0
  • 39'Goal · Joey BartonManchester City · 1-1
  • 44'Goal · Morten Gamst PedersenBlackburn Rovers · 2-1
  • 45'Own goal · Andre OoijerManchester City · 2-2
  • 50'Yellow card · Dietmar HamannManchester City
  • 57'Yellow card · Robbie SavageBlackburn Rovers
  • 60'Yellow card · Micah RichardsManchester City
  • 62'Yellow card · Benni McCarthyBlackburn Rovers
  • 66'Goal · Benni McCarthyBlackburn Rovers · 3-2
  • 68'Yellow card · B. CorradiManchester City
  • 89'Goal · Paul GallagherBlackburn Rovers · 4-2

Head-to-head

8 meetings: Blackburn Rovers 2, draws 5, Manchester City 1.

Team news

Blackburn Rovers line-up

Lucas Neill, Zurab Khizanishvili, Andre Ooijer, Tugay Kerimoglu, Brett Emerton, Robbie Savage, Daniel Bentley, Morten Gamst Pedersen, Brad Friedel, B. McCarthy, Francis Jeffers

Manchester City expected line-up

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