Blackburn Rovers 2-1 Sheffield United: result and report

Premier League · Saturday 3 February 2007

Result

Blackburn Rovers 2-1 Sheffield United

Premier League · Saturday 3 February 2007, 15:00 UTC · half-time 1-1

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Blackburn Rovers 2-1 Sheffield United: match report

Blackburn Rovers defeated Sheffield United 2-1 in the Premier League on Saturday 3 February 2007. The half-time score was 1-1.

Morten Gamst Pedersen opened the scoring in the 22nd minute. Blackburn Rovers's goals came from Morten Gamst Pedersen (22') and Morten Gamst Pedersen (90+2'). Sheffield United scored through Jon Stead (25').

Discipline: Blackburn Rovers received 1 yellow card and 1 red card; Sheffield United received 4 yellow cards.

Going into the game Blackburn Rovers were 12th on 31 points from 25 and Sheffield United 16th on 27 points from 25. Blackburn Rovers went on to finish that season 10th with 52 points, and Sheffield United 18th with 38.

Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 0 Blackburn Rovers wins, 1 draw and 0 for Sheffield United.

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

Data as of 3 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 16'Yellow card · Stephen WarnockBlackburn Rovers
  • 22'Goal · Morten Gamst PedersenBlackburn Rovers · 1-0
  • 23'Yellow card · Chris ArmstrongSheffield United
  • 25'Goal · Jon SteadSheffield United · 1-1
  • 27'Yellow card · Derek GearySheffield United
  • 27'Yellow card · Michael TongeSheffield United
  • 41'Yellow card · Jon SteadSheffield United
  • 88'Second yellow · Stephen WarnockBlackburn Rovers
  • 90+2'Goal · Morten Gamst PedersenBlackburn Rovers · 2-1

Head-to-head

1 meetings: Blackburn Rovers 0, draws 1, Sheffield United 0.

Team news

Blackburn Rovers line-up

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

Sheffield United expected line-up

Paddy Kenny, Phil Jagielka, Claude Davis, Chris Armstrong, Robert Kozluk, Keith Gillespie, Rob Hulse, Chris Morgan, Mikele Leigertwood, Michael Tonge