Blackburn Rovers 2-1 Wigan Athletic: result and report

Blackburn Rovers 2-1 Wigan Athletic

Premier League · Sunday 1 October 2006, 14:00 UTC · half-time 1-1

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Blackburn Rovers beat Wigan Athletic 2-1 in the Premier League on Sunday 1 October 2006. The half-time score was 1-1.

Emile Heskey opened the scoring in the 2nd minute. Blackburn Rovers's goals came from Daniel Bentley (45') and Benni McCarthy (81'). Wigan Athletic scored through Emile Heskey (2').

Discipline: Blackburn Rovers received 3 yellow cards; Wigan Athletic received 4 yellow cards.

Going into the game Blackburn Rovers were 10th on 8 points from 6 and Wigan Athletic 14th on 5 points from 5. Blackburn Rovers went on to finish that season 10th with 52 points, and Wigan Athletic 17th with 38.

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

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