Blackburn Rovers 2-0 Sunderland: result and report
Premier League · Wednesday 15 February 2006
Result
Blackburn Rovers 2-0 Sunderland
Premier League · Wednesday 15 February 2006, 20:00 UTC · half-time 1-0
Blackburn Rovers 2-0 Sunderland: match report
Blackburn Rovers defeated Sunderland 2-0 in the Premier League on Wednesday 15 February 2006. It was 1-0 at half-time.
Craig Bellamy opened the scoring in the 38th minute. Blackburn Rovers's goals came from Craig Bellamy (38') and Craig Bellamy (63'). Sunderland did not score.
Discipline: Blackburn Rovers received 1 yellow card; Sunderland received 2 yellow cards.
Going into the game Blackburn Rovers were 10th on 37 points from 25 and Sunderland 20th on 10 points from 25. Blackburn Rovers went on to finish that season 6th with 63 points, and Sunderland 20th with 15.
Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 0 Blackburn Rovers wins, 2 draws and 2 for Sunderland.
Going into the match Blackburn Rovers's last five read L-L-W-W-D and Sunderland's D-L-L-W-L.
Key events
- 20'Yellow card · George McCartney
- 38'Goal · Craig Bellamy
- 63'Goal · Craig Bellamy
- 74'Yellow card · Craig Bellamy
- 75'Yellow card · Tommy Miller
Head-to-head
Team news
Blackburn Rovers line-up
Lucas Neill, Steven Reid, Michael Gray, Robbie Savage, Morten Gamst Pedersen, Tugay Kerimoglu, Craig Bellamy, Florent Sinama-Pongolle, Brad Friedel, Andy Todd, Ryan Nelsen
Sunderland line-up
George McCartney, Gary Breen, Nyron Nosworthy, Danny Collins, Liam Lawrence, Dean Whitehead, Grant Leadbitter, Julio Arca, Kevin Kyle, Kelvin Davis, Tommy Miller