Newcastle United 0-1 Blackburn Rovers: result and report

Premier League · Saturday 21 January 2006

Result

Newcastle United 0-1 Blackburn Rovers

Premier League · Saturday 21 January 2006, 15:00 UTC · half-time 0-0

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Newcastle United 0-1 Blackburn Rovers: match report

Newcastle United were beaten by Blackburn Rovers 0-1 in the Premier League on Saturday 21 January 2006. It was 0-0 at half-time.

The only goal came from Morten Gamst Pedersen of Blackburn Rovers in the 75th minute.

Discipline: Newcastle United received no yellow cards; Blackburn Rovers received 2 yellow cards.

Going into the game Newcastle United were 14th on 26 points from 21 and Blackburn Rovers 9th on 31 points from 21. Newcastle United went on to finish that season 7th with 58 points, and Blackburn Rovers 6th with 63.

Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 4 Newcastle United wins, 3 draws and 2 for Blackburn Rovers.

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

Data as of 3 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 60'Yellow card · Ryan NelsenBlackburn Rovers
  • 75'Goal · Morten Gamst PedersenBlackburn Rovers · 0-1
  • 87'Yellow card · Lucas NeillBlackburn Rovers

Head-to-head

9 meetings: Newcastle United 4, draws 3, Blackburn Rovers 2.

Team news

Newcastle United line-up

Shay Given, Jean-Alain Boumsong Somkong, Titus Bramble, Peter Ramage, Celestine Babayaro, Albert Luque, Michael Chopra, N. Solano, Alan Shearer, Lee Bowyer, Lee Robert Clark

Blackburn Rovers line-up

Lucas Neill, Zurab Khizanishvili, Steven Reid, Michael Gray, Robbie Savage, Morten Gamst Pedersen, Tugay Kerimoglu, Brad Friedel, Ryan Nelsen, Shefki Kuqi, Paul Dickov