Manchester City 1-1 Blackburn Rovers: result and report

Premier League · Saturday 17 January 2004

Result

Manchester City 1-1 Blackburn Rovers

Premier League · Saturday 17 January 2004, 15:00 UTC · half-time 0-0

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Manchester City 1-1 Blackburn Rovers: match report

Manchester City drew with Blackburn Rovers 1-1 in the Premier League on Saturday 17 January 2004. The half-time score was 0-0.

Nicolas Anelka opened the scoring in the 50th minute. Manchester City's goal came from Nicolas Anelka (50'). Blackburn Rovers scored through G. Flitcroft (55').

Discipline: Manchester City received 2 yellow cards; Blackburn Rovers received 1 yellow card.

Going into the game Manchester City were 15th on 22 points from 21 and Blackburn Rovers 16th on 22 points from 21. Manchester City went on to finish that season 16th with 41 points, and Blackburn Rovers 15th with 44.

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

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

Data as of 3 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 31'Yellow card · G. FlitcroftBlackburn Rovers
  • 32'Yellow card · Paul BosveltManchester City
  • 50'Goal · Nicolas AnelkaManchester City · 1-0
  • 55'Goal · G. FlitcroftBlackburn Rovers · 1-1
  • 77'Yellow card · Sun JihaiManchester City

Head-to-head

3 meetings: Manchester City 1, draws 1, Blackburn Rovers 1.

Team news

Manchester City line-up

Sylvain Distin, Michael Tarnat, Richard Dunne, Trevor Sinclair, Jon Macken, Nicolas Anelka, David James, Antoine Sibierski, Sun Jihai, Joey Barton, Paul Bosvelt