Bolton Wanderers 1-2 Blackburn Rovers: result and report

Premier League · Sunday 13 January 2008

Result

Bolton Wanderers 1-2 Blackburn Rovers

Premier League · Sunday 13 January 2008, 16:00 UTC · half-time 1-0

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Bolton Wanderers 1-2 Blackburn Rovers: match report

Bolton Wanderers lost to Blackburn Rovers 1-2 in the Premier League on Sunday 13 January 2008. The half-time score was 1-0.

Kevin Nolan opened the scoring in the 43rd minute. Bolton Wanderers's goal came from Kevin Nolan (43'). Blackburn Rovers scored through Christopher Samba (53') and Jason Roberts (90').

Discipline: Bolton Wanderers received 2 yellow cards; Blackburn Rovers received 1 yellow card.

Going into the game Bolton Wanderers were 16th on 20 points from 21 and Blackburn Rovers 9th on 33 points from 21. Bolton Wanderers went on to finish that season 16th with 37 points, and Blackburn Rovers 7th with 58.

Bolton Wanderers lined up in a 4-3-2-1 and Blackburn Rovers in a 4-4-2.

Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 3 Bolton Wanderers wins, 5 draws and 2 for Blackburn Rovers.

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

Data as of 3 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 43'Goal · Kevin NolanBolton Wanderers · 1-0
  • 45'Yellow card · Iván CampoBolton Wanderers
  • 53'Goal · Christopher SambaBlackburn Rovers · 1-1
  • 62'Yellow card · Tamir CohenBolton Wanderers
  • 90'Goal · Jason RobertsBlackburn Rovers · 1-2
  • 90'Yellow card · Christopher SambaBlackburn Rovers

Head-to-head

10 meetings: Bolton Wanderers 3, draws 5, Blackburn Rovers 2.

Team news

Bolton Wanderers line-up (4-3-2-1)

Jussi Jaaskelainen, Joey O'Brien, Ľubomír Michalík, Andrew O'Brien, Stylianos Giannakopoulos, Iván Campo, Danny Guthrie, Tamir Cohen, Kevin Nolan, Ricardo Gardner, Kevin Davies

Blackburn Rovers line-up (4-4-2)

Andre Ooijer, Stephen Warnock, Christopher Samba, Steven Reid, Daniel Bentley, Morten Gamst Pedersen, Roque Santa Cruz, Brad Friedel, Ryan Nelsen, B. McCarthy, David Dunn