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 · Portsmouth · Premier League predictions

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.

Data as of 3 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 17'Yellow card · Papa DiopPortsmouth
  • 24'Goal · Nwankwo KanuPortsmouth · 0-1
  • 63'Yellow card · Sulley MuntariPortsmouth
  • 77'Yellow card · David JamesPortsmouth

Head-to-head

8 meetings: Blackburn Rovers 5, draws 1, Portsmouth 2.

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