Blackburn Rovers 3-3 Reading: result and report

Premier League · Sunday 13 May 2007

Result

Blackburn Rovers 3-3 Reading

Premier League · Sunday 13 May 2007, 14:00 UTC · half-time 1-1

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Blackburn Rovers 3-3 Reading: match report

Blackburn Rovers drew with Reading 3-3 in the Premier League on Sunday 13 May 2007. It was 1-1 at half-time.

Benni McCarthy opened the scoring in the 21st minute. Blackburn Rovers's goals came from Benni McCarthy (21'), Daniel Bentley (56') and Matt Derbyshire (67'). Reading scored through Ki-Hyeon Seol (36'), Kevin Doyle (58') and Brynjar Gunnarsson (77').

Discipline: Blackburn Rovers received 2 yellow cards; Reading received no yellow cards.

Going into the game Blackburn Rovers were 10th on 51 points from 37 and Reading 8th on 54 points from 37. Blackburn Rovers went on to finish that season 10th with 52 points, and Reading 8th with 55.

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

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

Data as of 3 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 21'Goal · Benni McCarthyBlackburn Rovers · 1-0
  • 36'Goal · Ki-Hyeon SeolReading · 1-1
  • 56'Goal · Daniel BentleyBlackburn Rovers · 2-1
  • 58'Goal · Kevin DoyleReading · 2-2
  • 67'Goal · Matt DerbyshireBlackburn Rovers · 3-2
  • 77'Goal · Brynjar GunnarssonReading · 3-3
  • 86'Yellow card · Christopher SambaBlackburn Rovers
  • 87'Yellow card · Benni McCarthyBlackburn Rovers

Head-to-head

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

Team news

Blackburn Rovers line-up

Aaron Mokoena, Christopher Samba, Stephen Warnock, Tugay Kerimoglu, Brett Emerton, Daniel Bentley, Morten Gamst Pedersen, Shabani Nonda, Brad Friedel, Ryan Nelsen, B. McCarthy

Reading line-up

Marcus Hahnemann, Nicky Shorey, Ivar Ingimarsson, Ulises de la Cruz Bernardo, Michael Duberry, Noel Hunt, James Harper, Kevin Doyle, Shane Long, Brynjar Björn Gunnarsson, Ki-Hyeon Seol