Everton 1-1 Blackburn Rovers: result and report

Premier League · Saturday 21 January 2012

Result

Everton 1-1 Blackburn Rovers

Premier League · Saturday 21 January 2012, 15:00 UTC · half-time 1-0

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Everton 1-1 Blackburn Rovers: match report

Everton drew with Blackburn Rovers 1-1 in the Premier League on Saturday 21 January 2012. The half-time score was 1-0.

Tim Cahill opened the scoring in the 25th minute. Everton's goal came from Tim Cahill (25'). Blackburn Rovers scored through David Goodwillie (72').

Discipline: Everton received 2 yellow cards; Blackburn Rovers received 2 yellow cards.

Going into the game Everton were 11th on 25 points from 21 and Blackburn Rovers 17th on 17 points from 21. Everton went on to finish that season 7th with 56 points, and Blackburn Rovers 19th with 31.

Everton lined up in a 4-4-1-1 and Blackburn Rovers in a 4-1-4-1.

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

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

Data as of 3 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 25'Goal · Tim CahillEverton · 1-0
  • 42'Yellow card · Radosav PetrovicBlackburn Rovers
  • 71'Yellow card · Darron GibsonEverton
  • 72'Goal · David GoodwillieBlackburn Rovers · 1-1
  • 77'Yellow card · Junior HoilettBlackburn Rovers
  • 83'Yellow card · R. DrentheEverton

Head-to-head

10 meetings: Everton 5, draws 3, Blackburn Rovers 2.

Team news

Unavailable

  • Phil JagielkaEverton · injury (Ruptured intraarticular ligament initiation in knee)

Everton expected line-up (4-4-1-1)

Tim Howard, Phil Jagielka, Leighton Baines, Tony Hibbert, Séamus Coleman, Sylvain Distin, Marouane Fellaini, Leon Osman, Diniyar Bilyaletdinov, Tim Cahill, Louis Saha

Blackburn Rovers line-up (4-1-4-1)

Paul Robinson, Martin Olsson, Gaël Givet-Viaros, Scott Dann, Morten Gamst Pedersen, Radosav Petrovic, Steven Nzonzi, Jason Lowe, Junior Hoilett, David Goodwillie, David Dunn