Blackburn Rovers 1-1 Manchester United: result and report
Premier League · Saturday 19 April 2008
Result
Blackburn Rovers 1-1 Manchester United
Premier League · Saturday 19 April 2008, 16:15 UTC · half-time 1-0
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Blackburn Rovers 1-1 Manchester United: match report
Blackburn Rovers drew with Manchester United 1-1 in the Premier League on Saturday 19 April 2008. It was 1-0 at half-time.
R. Santa Cruz opened the scoring in the 21st minute. Blackburn Rovers's goal came from R. Santa Cruz (21'). Manchester United scored through Carlos Tévez (88').
Discipline: Blackburn Rovers received 1 yellow card; Manchester United received 1 yellow card.
Going into the game Blackburn Rovers were 9th on 51 points from 34 and Manchester United 1st on 79 points from 34. Blackburn Rovers went on to finish that season 7th with 58 points, and Manchester United 1st with 87.
Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 3 Blackburn Rovers wins, 2 draws and 5 for Manchester United.
Going into the match Blackburn Rovers's last five read L-D-D-W-L and Manchester United's W-D-W-W-W.
Key events
- 21'Goal · R. Santa Cruz
- 40'Yellow card · Wayne Rooney
- 52'Yellow card · Steven Reid
- 88'Goal · Carlos Tévez
Head-to-head
Team news
Blackburn Rovers expected line-up (4-4-2)
Stephen Warnock, Steven Reid, Christopher Samba, Daniel Bentley, Morten Gamst Pedersen, Roque Santa Cruz, Jason Roberts, Brad Friedel, Ryan Nelsen
Manchester United expected line-up
Edwin van der Sar, Rio Ferdinand, Wes Brown, John O'Shea, Patrice Evra, Kieran Richardson, Louis Saha, Cristiano Ronaldo, Ryan Giggs, Gary Neville