Portsmouth 2-2 Blackburn Rovers: result and report

Premier League · Saturday 8 April 2006

Result

Portsmouth 2-2 Blackburn Rovers

Premier League · Saturday 8 April 2006, 14:00 UTC · half-time 1-1

Portsmouth · Blackburn Rovers · Premier League predictions

Portsmouth 2-2 Blackburn Rovers: match report

Portsmouth drew with Blackburn Rovers 2-2 in the Premier League on Saturday 8 April 2006. The half-time score was 1-1.

Craig Bellamy opened the scoring in the 32nd minute. Portsmouth's goals came from Trésor Lomana LuaLua (41') and Svetoslav Todorov (78'). Blackburn Rovers scored through Craig Bellamy (32') and Craig Bellamy (62').

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

Going into the game Portsmouth were 19th on 27 points from 31 and Blackburn Rovers 6th on 53 points from 32. Portsmouth went on to finish that season 17th with 38 points, and Blackburn Rovers 6th with 63.

Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 1 Portsmouth win, 0 draws and 4 for Blackburn Rovers.

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

Data as of 3 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 32'Goal · Craig BellamyBlackburn Rovers · 0-1
  • 41'Goal · Trésor Lomana LuaLuaPortsmouth · 1-1
  • 54'Yellow card · P. DickovBlackburn Rovers
  • 54'Yellow card · Pedro MendesPortsmouth
  • 62'Goal · Craig BellamyBlackburn Rovers · 1-2
  • 73'Yellow card · Craig BellamyBlackburn Rovers
  • 78'Goal · Svetoslav TodorovPortsmouth · 2-2
  • 90'Yellow card · Brett EmertonBlackburn Rovers

Head-to-head

5 meetings: Portsmouth 1, draws 0, Blackburn Rovers 4.

Team news

Portsmouth expected line-up

Shaka Hislop, Dejan Stefanovic, Arjan de Zeeuw, Nigel Quashie, Patrik Berger, Richard Hughes, Alexei Smertin, Yakubu Aiyegbeni, Lomana Lualua, Steve Stone, Teddy Sheringham

Blackburn Rovers line-up

Lucas Neill, Zurab Khizanishvili, Steven Reid, Michael Gray, Robbie Savage, Morten Gamst Pedersen, Daniel Bentley, Craig Bellamy, Brad Friedel, Ryan Nelsen, Paul Dickov