Blackburn Rovers 1-2 Portsmouth: result and report

Premier League · Saturday 27 March 2004

Result

Blackburn Rovers 1-2 Portsmouth

Premier League · Saturday 27 March 2004, 15:00 UTC · half-time 1-1

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Blackburn Rovers 1-2 Portsmouth: match report

Blackburn Rovers were beaten by Portsmouth 1-2 in the Premier League on Saturday 27 March 2004. It was 1-1 at half-time.

Teddy Sheringham opened the scoring in the 17th minute. Blackburn Rovers's goal came from an own goal by Matthew Taylor (37'). Portsmouth scored through Teddy Sheringham (17') and Yakubu Aiyegbeni (82').

Neither side received a card.

Going into the game Blackburn Rovers were 15th on 31 points from 29 and Portsmouth 18th on 27 points from 29. Blackburn Rovers went on to finish that season 15th with 44 points, and Portsmouth 13th with 45.

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

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

Data as of 3 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 17'Goal · Teddy SheringhamPortsmouth · 0-1
  • 37'Own goal · Matthew TaylorBlackburn Rovers · 1-1
  • 82'Goal · Yakubu AiyegbeniPortsmouth · 1-2

Head-to-head

1 meetings: Blackburn Rovers 1, draws 0, Portsmouth 0.

Team news

Portsmouth line-up

Shaka Hislop, Linvoy Primus, Dejan Stefanovic, Arjan de Zeeuw, Petri Pasanen, Amdy Faye, Alexei Smertin, Yakubu Aiyegbeni, Teddy Sheringham, Matthew Taylor, Steve Stone