Manchester City 4-1 Blackburn Rovers: result and report

Premier League · Monday 11 January 2010

Result

Manchester City 4-1 Blackburn Rovers

Premier League · Monday 11 January 2010, 20:00 UTC · half-time 2-0

Manchester City · Blackburn Rovers · Premier League predictions

Manchester City 4-1 Blackburn Rovers: match report

Manchester City defeated Blackburn Rovers 4-1 in the Premier League on Monday 11 January 2010. The half-time score was 2-0.

C. Tevez opened the scoring in the 7th minute. Manchester City's goals came from C. Tevez (7'), Micah Richards (39'), C. Tevez (49') and C. Tevez (90'). Blackburn Rovers scored through Morten Gamst Pedersen (71').

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

Going into the game Manchester City were 5th on 35 points from 19 and Blackburn Rovers 13th on 21 points from 20. Manchester City went on to finish that season 5th with 67 points, and Blackburn Rovers 10th with 50.

Manchester City lined up in a 4-2-3-1 and Blackburn Rovers in a 4-4-1-1.

Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 2 Manchester City wins, 4 draws and 4 for Blackburn Rovers.

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

Data as of 3 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 7'Goal · C. TevezManchester City · 1-0
  • 39'Goal · Micah RichardsManchester City · 2-0
  • 49'Goal · C. TevezManchester City · 3-0
  • 61'Yellow card · Pablo ZabaletaManchester City
  • 71'Goal · Morten Gamst PedersenBlackburn Rovers · 3-1
  • 78'Yellow card · Morten Gamst PedersenBlackburn Rovers
  • 90'Goal · C. TevezManchester City · 4-1

Head-to-head

10 meetings: Manchester City 2, draws 4, Blackburn Rovers 4.

Team news

Manchester City expected line-up (4-2-3-1)

Shay Given, Wayne Bridge, Joleon Lescott, Kolo Touré, Micah Richards, Shaun Wright-Phillips, Nigel de Jong, Gareth Barry, Stephen Ireland, Emmanuel Adebayor

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

Paul Robinson, Lars Jacobsen, Christopher Samba, Gaël Givet-Viaros, Brett Emerton, Morten Gamst Pedersen, Steven Nzonzi, Keith Andrews, Franco Di Santo, Ryan Nelsen, David Dunn