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Commentary
The Middlesbrough 'keeper did well to hold onto a powerful strike from ANICHEBE.
A corner found BLAKE who turned an effort over.
BELLAMY shot wide.
10¹A pin-point pass fell to JOHNSON and his right foot effort flew narrowly wide.
14¹JOHNSON brought the ball past CAHILL and flicked a tame shot into the crowd.
22¹ANICHEBE headed over the bar.
25¹GREEN was able to block a tame shot from JOHNSON.
27¹Uncertainty in the Middlesbrough defence enabled OSMAN to crack an effort over the bar.
27¹A right foot effort from GRAHAM was blocked by the Blackburn Rovers 'keeper.
35¹OSMAN beat JOHNSON and whacked the ball to BELLAMY who toe-poked his effort wide.
37¹A fine dribble was ended by a good save by the advancing Middlesbrough 'keeper.
39¹FÁBIO SIMPLÍCIO beat two Middlesbrough players and stroked a shot over.
43¹The Middlesbrough 'keeper saved a swerving shot from DAVIES.
GOAL!! A great solo effort from McEVELEY who beat two defenders before rocketing the ball into the top corner. (1-0 Blackburn Rovers)
A twenty yard shot from McMAHON caused GREEN no problem.
BOATENG blasted a right foot shot just beyond the far post from twenty yards out.
19²A good ball from ANICHEBE on the right was collected by BELLAMY who scuffed his shot over the bar.
21²JOHNSON fluffed a simple chance.
24²A tame strike from McEVELEY bounced agonisingly wide.
30²A penalty box meleé resulted in JOHNSON cracking the ball wide.
34²RUNJE dived to his right to block a lovely drive from Blackburn Rovers's McEVELEY.
35²GOAL!! After BELLAMY was fouled STRAMPE waved play-on and McEVELEY went on to easily score. (2-0 Blackburn Rovers)

 
Blackburn Rovers
 
League position: -
Home league form: XWLW
Overall league form: XWWWLLXW
Formation: 4-3-3
Line-ups
Robert GREEN1Vedran RUNJE
Joseph YOBO2Tim HOOGLAND
Jay McEVELEY3Andrew TAYLOR
(c)Tim CAHILL4George BOATENG(c)
Andy TODD5Tsuneyasu MIYAMOTO
FÁBIO Henrique SIMPLÍCIO6David WHEATER
Jermaine JENAS7James MORRISON
Craig BELLAMY8Adam JOHNSON
(p)Victor ANICHEBE9Danny GRAHAM(p)
(f)Leon OSMAN10Robbie BLAKE(f)
Kevin DAVIES11Filip SEBO
Manager
Francesco BOLZONI  12  Fábio ROCHEMBACK
Jürgen MACHO  13  Brad JONES
Benni McCARTHY14  OLCAN Adin
MANUEL Henriques FERNANDES  15Anthony McMAHON
Marin LJUBICIC  16  Franck QUEUDRUE
 
Middlesbrough
 
League position: 18
Away league form: WLXW
Overall league form: WLWLLLXX
Formation: 4-3-3

Statistics
Blackburn Rovers 2 Middlesbrough 0
(Half-time: 0-0, Attendance: 31,210, Stadium: Ewood Park, Referee: Hartmut Strampe 8)

McEveley 3², McEveley 35²
Scorers
Substitutions
Sent off
Bookings
Corners
Fouls
Offsides
Shots on
Shots off
Total shots
Shots saved
Possession
 
OsmanóMcCarthy 20²GrahamóMcMahon 1²
  
  
25
1027
316
74
117
1811
53
54%46%
Man of the match: Tim Cahill