Blackburn Rovers 0-1 Portsmouth: result and report
Premier League · Sunday 23 September 2007
Result
Blackburn Rovers 0-1 Portsmouth
Premier League · Sunday 23 September 2007, 14:00 UTC · half-time 0-1
Blackburn Rovers 0-1 Portsmouth: match report
Blackburn Rovers were beaten by Portsmouth 0-1 in the Premier League on Sunday 23 September 2007. It was 0-1 at half-time.
The only goal came from Nwankwo Kanu of Portsmouth in the 24th minute.
Discipline: Blackburn Rovers received no yellow cards; Portsmouth received 3 yellow cards.
Going into the game Blackburn Rovers were 10th on 9 points from 5 and Portsmouth 16th on 6 points from 6. Blackburn Rovers went on to finish that season 7th with 58 points, and Portsmouth 8th with 57.
Blackburn Rovers lined up in a 4-4-2 and Portsmouth in a 4-5-1.
Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 5 Blackburn Rovers wins, 1 draw and 2 for Portsmouth.
Going into the match Blackburn Rovers's last five read D-W-D-D-W and Portsmouth's D-L-L-W-D.
Key events
- 17'Yellow card · Papa Diop
- 24'Goal · Nwankwo Kanu
- 63'Yellow card · Sulley Muntari
- 77'Yellow card · David James
Head-to-head
Team news
Blackburn Rovers line-up (4-4-2)
Andre Ooijer, Stephen Warnock, Christopher Samba, Brett Emerton, Robbie Savage, Daniel Bentley, Morten Gamst Pedersen, Roque Santa Cruz, Brad Friedel, B. McCarthy, David Dunn
Portsmouth line-up (4-5-1)
Glen Johnson, Sylvain Distin, Papa Diop, Sulley Muntari, Niko Kranjčar, Sean Davis, John Utaka, Nwankwo Kanu, David James, Hermann Hreidarsson, Sulzeer Campbell