Blackburn Rovers 4-2 Swansea City: result and report
Premier League · Saturday 3 December 2011
Result
Blackburn Rovers 4-2 Swansea City
Premier League · Saturday 3 December 2011, 15:00 UTC · half-time 2-1
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Blackburn Rovers 4-2 Swansea City: match report
Blackburn Rovers beat Swansea City 4-2 in the Premier League on Saturday 3 December 2011. The half-time score was 2-1.
Yakubu Aiyegbeni opened the scoring in the 20th minute. Blackburn Rovers's goals came from Yakubu Aiyegbeni (20'), Yakubu Aiyegbeni (45+2'), Yakubu Aiyegbeni (57') and Yakubu Aiyegbeni (82', penalty). Swansea City scored through L. Lita (35') and Luke Moore (66').
Discipline: Blackburn Rovers received 1 yellow card; Swansea City received 1 yellow card and 1 red card.
Going into the game Blackburn Rovers were 20th on 7 points from 13 and Swansea City 13th on 14 points from 13. Blackburn Rovers went on to finish that season 19th with 31 points, and Swansea City 11th with 47.
Blackburn Rovers lined up in a 4-4-1-1 and Swansea City in a 4-2-3-1.
Going into the match Blackburn Rovers's last five read L-D-L-D-L and Swansea City's D-L-D-W-D.
Key events
- 20'Goal · Yakubu Aiyegbeni
- 35'Goal · L. Lita
- 44'Yellow card · Junior Hoilett
- 45+2'Goal · Yakubu Aiyegbeni
- 57'Goal · Yakubu Aiyegbeni
- 59'Yellow card · Joe Allen
- 66'Goal · Luke Moore
- 81'Second yellow · Joe Allen
- 82'Penalty goal · Yakubu Aiyegbeni
Team news
Blackburn Rovers line-up (4-4-1-1)
Paul Robinson, Christopher Samba, Gaël Givet-Viaros, Scott Dann, Mauro Formica, Morten Gamst Pedersen, Jason Lowe, Rubén Rochina, Junior Hoilett, Yakubu Aiyegbeni, David Dunn
Swansea City line-up (4-2-3-1)
Michel Vorm, Ashley Williams, Jazz Richards, Scott Sinclair, Nathan Dyer, Joe Allen, Mark Gower, Leroy Lita, Neil Taylor, Leon Britton, Garry Monk