Manchester City 3-1 Blackburn Rovers: result and report

Premier League · Saturday 2 May 2009

Result

Manchester City 3-1 Blackburn Rovers

Premier League · Saturday 2 May 2009, 14:00 UTC · half-time 3-0

Manchester City · Blackburn Rovers · Premier League predictions

Manchester City 3-1 Blackburn Rovers: match report

Manchester City beat Blackburn Rovers 3-1 in the Premier League on Saturday 2 May 2009. The half-time score was 3-0.

Felipe Caicedo opened the scoring in the 27th minute. Manchester City's goals came from Felipe Caicedo (27'), Robinho (34') and Elano (45'). Blackburn Rovers scored through Keith Andrews (66').

Discipline: Manchester City received 2 yellow cards; Blackburn Rovers received 3 yellow cards.

Going into the game Manchester City were 9th on 44 points from 34 and Blackburn Rovers 15th on 37 points from 34. Manchester City went on to finish that season 10th with 50 points, and Blackburn Rovers 15th with 41.

Manchester City lined up in a 4-4-2 and Blackburn Rovers in a 4-4-2.

Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 0 Manchester City wins, 6 draws and 4 for Blackburn Rovers.

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

Data as of 3 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 27'Goal · Felipe CaicedoManchester City · 1-0
  • 27'Yellow card · Felipe CaicedoManchester City
  • 34'Goal · RobinhoManchester City · 2-0
  • 45'Goal · ElanoManchester City · 3-0
  • 45+1'Yellow card · Vincenzo GrellaBlackburn Rovers
  • 45+1'Yellow card · Ryan William NelsenBlackburn Rovers
  • 45+1'Yellow card · Andre OoijerBlackburn Rovers
  • 60'Yellow card · Nigel de JongManchester City
  • 66'Goal · Keith AndrewsBlackburn Rovers · 3-1

Head-to-head

10 meetings: Manchester City 0, draws 6, Blackburn Rovers 4.

Team news

Manchester City expected line-up (4-4-2)

Joe Hart, Richard Dunne, Javier Garrido, Michael Ball, Stephen Ireland, Martin Petrov, Gelson Fernandes, Michael Johnson, Benjamin Mwaruwari, Darius Vassell, Vedran Ćorluka

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

Paul Robinson, Christopher Samba, Stephen Warnock, Gaël Givet-Viaros, Andre Ooijer, Aaron Mokoena, Morten Gamst Pedersen, El-Hadji Diouf, Jason Roberts, Ryan Nelsen, B. McCarthy