Manchester City 0-3 Blackburn Rovers: result and report

Premier League · Saturday 20 January 2007

Result

Manchester City 0-3 Blackburn Rovers

Premier League · Saturday 20 January 2007, 17:15 UTC · half-time 0-1

Manchester City · Blackburn Rovers · Premier League predictions

Manchester City 0-3 Blackburn Rovers: match report

Manchester City lost to Blackburn Rovers 0-3 in the Premier League on Saturday 20 January 2007. The half-time score was 0-1.

Morten Gamst Pedersen opened the scoring in the 44th minute. Manchester City did not score. Blackburn Rovers scored through Morten Gamst Pedersen (44'), Morten Gamst Pedersen (62') and Matt Derbyshire (90').

Discipline: Manchester City received 1 yellow card; Blackburn Rovers received 3 yellow cards.

Going into the game Manchester City were 12th on 30 points from 23 and Blackburn Rovers 15th on 28 points from 22. Manchester City went on to finish that season 14th with 42 points, and Blackburn Rovers 10th with 52.

Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 1 Manchester City win, 5 draws and 3 for Blackburn Rovers.

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

Data as of 3 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 44'Goal · Morten Gamst PedersenBlackburn Rovers · 0-1
  • 51'Yellow card · Stephane HenchozBlackburn Rovers
  • 55'Yellow card · Brett EmertonBlackburn Rovers
  • 59'Yellow card · James McEveleyBlackburn Rovers
  • 61'Yellow card · Richard DunneManchester City
  • 62'Goal · Morten Gamst PedersenBlackburn Rovers · 0-2
  • 90'Goal · Matt DerbyshireBlackburn Rovers · 0-3

Head-to-head

9 meetings: Manchester City 1, draws 5, Blackburn Rovers 3.

Team news

Manchester City expected line-up

Nicky Weaver, Richard Dunne, Sylvain Distin, Ben Thatcher, Micah Richards, Hatem Trabelsi, Claudio Reyna, Trevor Sinclair, Darius Vassell, Joey Barton, Paul Dickov

Blackburn Rovers line-up

Zurab Khizanishvili, Andre Ooijer, James McEveley, Tugay Kerimoglu, Robbie Savage, Daniel Bentley, Morten Gamst Pedersen, Shabani Nonda, Brad Friedel, B. McCarthy, Stephane Henchoz