Blackburn Rovers 1-0 Portsmouth: result and report

Premier League · Saturday 18 September 2004

Result

Blackburn Rovers 1-0 Portsmouth

Premier League · Saturday 18 September 2004, 14:00 UTC · half-time 0-0

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Blackburn Rovers 1-0 Portsmouth: match report

Blackburn Rovers won against Portsmouth 1-0 in the Premier League on Saturday 18 September 2004. The half-time score was 0-0.

The only goal came from Matt Jansen of Blackburn Rovers in the 75th minute.

Discipline: Blackburn Rovers received no yellow cards; Portsmouth received 3 yellow cards.

Going into the game Blackburn Rovers were 19th on 2 points from 5 and Portsmouth 9th on 7 points from 4. Blackburn Rovers went on to finish that season 15th with 42 points, and Portsmouth 16th with 39.

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

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

Data as of 3 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 55'Yellow card · Andy GriffinPortsmouth
  • 75'Goal · Matt JansenBlackburn Rovers · 1-0
  • 82'Yellow card · Dejan StefanovicPortsmouth
  • 86'Yellow card · Ricardo FullerPortsmouth

Head-to-head

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

Team news

Portsmouth expected line-up

Shaka Hislop, Dejan Stefanovic, Arjan de Zeeuw, Boris Zivkovic, Nigel Quashie, Patrik Berger, Alexei Smertin, Yakubu Aiyegbeni, Lomana Lualua, Steve Stone, Teddy Sheringham