Blackburn Rovers 0-3 Newcastle United: result and report
Premier League · Sunday 18 September 2005
Result
Blackburn Rovers 0-3 Newcastle United
Premier League · Sunday 18 September 2005, 13:00 UTC · half-time 0-0
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Blackburn Rovers 0-3 Newcastle United: match report
Blackburn Rovers were beaten by Newcastle United 0-3 in the Premier League on Sunday 18 September 2005. It was 0-0 at half-time.
A. Shearer opened the scoring in the 62nd minute. Blackburn Rovers did not score. Newcastle United scored through A. Shearer (62'), Michael Owen (66') and Charles N'Zogbia (85').
Discipline: Blackburn Rovers received 1 yellow card; Newcastle United received 4 yellow cards.
Going into the game Blackburn Rovers were 13th on 5 points from 5 and Newcastle United 19th on 2 points from 5. Blackburn Rovers went on to finish that season 6th with 63 points, and Newcastle United 7th with 58.
Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 2 Blackburn Rovers wins, 3 draws and 3 for Newcastle United.
Going into the match Blackburn Rovers's last five read D-L-D-W-L and Newcastle United's D-L-L-D-L.
Key events
- 2'Yellow card · Lucas Neill
- 28'Yellow card · Jordan Archer
- 31'Yellow card · Jean-Alain Boumsong Somkong
- 33'Yellow card · Shay Given
- 62'Goal · A. Shearer
- 66'Goal · Michael Owen
- 79'Yellow card · Celestine Babayaro
- 85'Goal · Charles N'Zogbia
Head-to-head
Team news
Blackburn Rovers line-up
Lucas Neill, Zurab Khizanishvili, Steven Reid, Aaron Mokoena, Vratislav Gresko, Robbie Savage, Morten Gamst Pedersen, Daniel Bentley, Craig Bellamy, Brad Friedel, Ryan Nelsen
Newcastle United line-up
Shay Given, Stephen Carr, Jean-Alain Boumsong Somkong, Steven Taylor, Celestine Babayaro, Charles N'Zogbia, Amdy Faye, Michael Owen, Alan Shearer, Lee Bowyer, Lee Robert Clark