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Newcastle United 1-2 Blackburn - September 27, 2008 / Premier League 2008/2009

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Premier League 2008/2009 - Round 6

St. James Park - Newcastle - England

September 27, 2008

44 935

1 - 2

Blackburn

(penalty) Michael Owen

49'

30'

Christopher Samba (header)

41'

Roque Santa Cruz (header)

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30' - Goal Christopher Samba

41' - Goal Roque Santa Cruz

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49' - Goal Michael Owen49

62' - Substitution Carlos Villanuevais substituted by Robbie Fowler

71' - Substitution Geremiis substituted by Shola Ameobi71

82' - Substitution Charles N'Zogbiais substituted by David Edgar82

84' - Substitution Matt Derbyshireis substituted by Jason Roberts photo André Ooijer

84' - Substitution Roque Santa Cruzis substituted by André Ooijer

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Team line-ups Key figures Pre-match Competition info

Newcastle United

1 - 2

Blackburn

Newcastle United Blackburn

Team line-ups

Newcastle United

1 Given

Shay Given

Republic of Ireland

B.date20/04/1976

Age32 years

H1m85

positionGoalkeeper

27 Taylor

Steven Taylor

England

B.date23/01/1986

Age22 years

H1m86

positionRight central defender

2 Coloccini

Fabricio Coloccini

Argentina

B.date22/01/1982

Age26 years

H1m84

positionCentral defender

6 Cláudio Caçapa

Cláudio Caçapa

Brazil

B.date29/05/1976

Age32 years

H1m84

positionCentral defender

12 Bassong

Sébastien Bassong

Cameroon

B.date09/07/1986

Age22 years

H1m87

positionLeft central defender

20 Geremi71

Geremi

Cameroon

B.date20/12/1978

Age29 years

H1m79

positionRight full-back

14 N'Zogbia82

Charles N'Zogbia

France

B.date28/05/1986

Age22 years

H1m70

positionLeft Midfielder

11 Duff

Damien Duff

Republic of Ireland

B.date02/03/1979

Age29 years

H1m75

positionMidfield

22 Butt

Nicky Butt

England

B.date21/01/1975

Age33 years

H1m78

positionMidfield

19 Jiménez

Xisco Jiménez

Spain

B.date26/06/1986

Age22 years

H1m88

positionStriker

10 Owen49

Michael Owen

England

B.date14/12/1979

Age28 years

H1m73

positionStriker

First 11				Age	Match num	Note
1	G	Shay Given		32	445	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
27	D	Steven Taylor		22	128	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
2	D	Fabricio Coloccini		26	8	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
6	D	Cláudio Caçapa		32	25	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
12	D	Sébastien Bassong		22	6	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
20	D	Geremi	71	29	34	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
14	M	Charles N'Zogbia	82	22	140	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
11	M	Damien Duff		29	57	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
22	M	Nicky Butt		33	122	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
19	F	Xisco Jiménez		22	4	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
10	F	Michael Owen	49	28	54	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player

Average age

27 years

Average number of matches played for the team

Blackburn

Brown

Jason Brown

Wales

B.date18/05/1982

Age26 years

H1m80

positionGoalkeeper

Samba30

Christopher Samba

Congo

B.date28/03/1984

Age24 years

H1m93

positionCentral defender

Nelsen

Ryan Nelsen

New Zealand

B.date18/10/1977

Age30 years

H1m88

positionCentral defender

Simpson

Danny Simpson

England

B.date04/01/1987

Age21 years

H1m75

positionRight full-back

Olsson

Martin Olsson

Sweden

B.date17/05/1988

Age20 years

H1m79

positionLeft full-back

Warnock

Stephen Warnock

England

B.date12/12/1981

Age26 years

H1m78

positionLeft full-back

Emerton

Brett Emerton

Australia

B.date22/02/1979

Age29 years

H1m85

positionRight Midfielder

Tugay

Kerimoglu Tugay

Turkey

B.date24/08/1970

Age38 years

H1m76

positionCentre Midfield

Villanueva62

Carlos Villanueva

Chile

B.date05/02/1986

Age22 years

H1m73

positionPlaymaker

Santa Cruz4184

Roque Santa Cruz

Paraguay

B.date16/08/1981

Age27 years

H1m89

positionCentre forward

Derbyshire84

Matt Derbyshire

England

B.date14/04/1986

Age22 years

H1m85

positionStriker

			Age	Match num	Note
G	Jason Brown		26	4	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Christopher Samba	30	24	66	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Ryan Nelsen		30	112	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Danny Simpson		21	5	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Martin Olsson		20	6	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Stephen Warnock		26	72	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Brett Emerton		29	214	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Kerimoglu Tugay		38	262	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Carlos Villanueva	62	22	4	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
F	Roque Santa Cruz	4184	27	50	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
F	Matt Derbyshire	84	22	69	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player

Average age

25.9 years

Average number of matches played for the team

Substitutes					Age	Match num	Note
30	D		David Edgar	82	21	15	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
23	F		Shola Ameobi	71	26	233	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player

			Age	Match num	Note
D	André Ooijer	84	34	66	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
F	Robbie Fowler	62	33	2	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
F	Jason Roberts	84	30	62	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player

Changes in the starting players regarding the previous match

Xisco Jiménez

Obafemi Martins

OUT

Changes in the starting players regarding the previous match

Roque Santa Cruz

Robbie Fowler

OUT

Jason Brown

Paul Robinson

OUT

Christopher Samba

Zurab Khizanishvili

OUT

Ryan Nelsen

André Ooijer

OUT

Brett Emerton

Keith Treacy

OUT

Manager

Age

Match num

Chris Hughton

Joe Kinnear

Success rate in this team:

0 %

Success rate since the beginning of his career:

27 %

Hughton vs Blackburn

1 victory

0 draw

1 loss

Latest figure on September 27, 2008

Hughton vs Ince

0 victory

0 draw

1 loss

Latest figure on September 27, 2008

Manager

Age

Match num

Paul Ince

Success rate in this team:

63 %

Success rate since the beginning of his career:

53 %

Ince vs Newcastle United

1 victory

0 draw

0 loss

Latest figure on September 27, 2008

Ince vs Hughton

1 victory

0 draw

0 loss

Latest figure on September 27, 2008

Referee

Stephen Tanner

1 victory	0 draw	1 loss	Newcastle United2 matches	General total	Blackburn3 matches	1 victory	1 draw	1 loss
0 victory	0 draw	1 loss	Newcastle United1 match	Season total	Blackburn2 matches	1 victory	0 draw	1 loss
Latest figure on February 17, 2010					Latest figure on February 14, 2009

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Comments

Key figures

Blackburn keeps its 6 consecutive matches without a draw away from home running (since 13/04/2008). The last time this streak has been beaten, it was during the 05/12/2006-14/02/2007 time period (11 matches).

Robbie Fowler played his game number 20 vs Newcastle United in Premier League

It's the first time Roque Santa Cruz scores 1 goal vs in his professional career

Read the next 17 key stats

Pre-match

Current form

Home

VNewcastle United 3-0 Reading05/04/2008

VNewcastle United 2-0 Sunderland20/04/2008

LNewcastle United 0-2 Chelsea05/05/2008

VNewcastle United 1-0 Bolton Wanderers23/08/2008

LNewcastle United 1-2 Hull City13/09/2008

LNewcastle United 1-2 Tottenham24/09/2008

Overall

VNewcastle United 1-0 Bolton Wanderers23/08/2008

VCoventry 2-3 Newcastle United26/08/2008

LArsenal 3-0 Newcastle United30/08/2008

LNewcastle United 1-2 Hull City13/09/2008

LWest Ham 3-1 Newcastle United20/09/2008

LNewcastle United 1-2 Tottenham24/09/2008

Current form

Away

DReading 0-0 Blackburn29/03/2008

LLiverpool 3-1 Blackburn13/04/2008

VPortsmouth 0-1 Blackburn27/04/2008

LBirmingham City 4-1 Blackburn11/05/2008

VEverton 2-3 Blackburn16/08/2008

LWest Ham 4-1 Blackburn30/08/2008

Overall

DBlackburn 1-1 Hull City23/08/2008

VBlackburn 4-1 Grimsby Town27/08/2008

LWest Ham 4-1 Blackburn30/08/2008

LBlackburn 0-4 Arsenal13/09/2008

VBlackburn 1-0 Fulham20/09/2008

VBlackburn 1-0 Everton24/09/2008

Running streaks

	Home	Total
Loosing streak	2	4
Winless streak	2	4
Drawless streak	9	6
Scoring streak	3	3
Conceding streak	2	5

Running streaks

	Away	Total
Winning streak	0	2
Loosing streak	1	0
Unbeaten streak	0	2
Winless streak	1	0
Drawless streak	5	5
Scoring streak	5	2
Conceding streak	3	0
Invincibility streak	0	2

Statistical comparison of the season

Rankings

203	FBDB index ranking (Worldwide)	73
16	FBDB index ranking (National)	9

Results

5	Number of games (Competition total)	5
2	Number of games (Home / Away)	2
1	Victories (Competition total)	2
1	Victories (Home / Away)	1
1	Draws (Competition total)	1
0	Draws (Home / Away)	0
3	Losses (Competition total)	2
1	Losses (Home / Away)	1

Goals

4	Goals scored (Competition total)	6
2	Goals scored (Home / Away)	4
9	Goals conceded (Competition total)	11
2	Goals conceded (Home / Away)	6
0.8	Goals scored per match average (Competition total)	1.2
1	Goals scored per match average (Home / Away)	2
1.8	Conceced goals per match average (Competition total)	2.2
1	Conceced goals per match average (Home / Away)	3

Betting aid

3	Number of matches with more than 2,5 goals (Competition total)	3
1	Number of matches with more than 2,5 goals (Home / Away)	2
1	Clean sheets (Competition total)	1
1	Clean sheets (Home / Away)	0
1	Matches without scoring (Competition total)	1
0	Matches without scoring (Home / Away)	0
3	The 2 teams score (Competition total)	3
1	The 2 teams score (Home / Away)	2
1-0 (1 times)	Most frequent score (Home / Away)	3-2 (1 times)

Bookings

5	Yellow cards (Competition total)	10
1	Yellow cards (Home / Away)	7
1	Red cards (Competition total)	0
1	Red cards (Home / Away)	0

Key players

Michael Owen	2 goals	Team's best scorer (Competition total)	2 goals	Jason Roberts
Michael Owen	1 goal	Team's best scorer (Home / Away)	1 goal	Roque Santa Cruz
Michael Owen	2 goals during the last 4 matches	The fittest player	1 goal during the last match	Matt Derbyshire

Historical head to head

Home

65 matches

37 v

16 d

12 l

117 gf

67 ga

Away

64 matches

16 v

13 d

35 l

74 gf

119 ga

Total

129 matches

53 v

29 d

47 l

191 gf

186 ga

Historical head to head

Home

64 matches

35 v

13 d

16 l

119 gf

74 ga

Away

65 matches

12 v

16 d

37 l

67 gf

117 ga

Total

129 matches

47 v

29 d

53 l

186 gf

191 ga

Largest victory

Overall	6 - 1	October 23, 1926
Home	6 - 1	October 23, 1926

Largest victory

Overall	7 - 1	September 09, 1925
Away	7 - 1	September 09, 1925

Latest head to head

March 01, 2008 - Premier League 2007/2008

Newcastle United

0 - 1

Blackburn

December 01, 2007 - Premier League 2007/2008

Blackburn

3 - 1

Newcastle United logo Newcastle United

May 05, 2007 - Premier League 2006/2007

Newcastle United

0 - 2

Blackburn

December 09, 2006 - Premier League 2006/2007

Blackburn

1 - 3

Newcastle United logo Newcastle United

January 21, 2006 - Premier League 2005/2006

Newcastle United

0 - 1

Blackburn

Best historical scorers against Blackburn

Alan Shearer	10 goals	1996 - 2005
Len White	4 goals	1959 - 1960
Obafemi Martins	3 goals	2006 - 2007
George Eastham	2 goals	1959 - 1960
Craig Bellamy	2 goals	2003 - 2004
Laurent Robert	2 goals	2003 - 2004

First data collected by footballdatabase.eu on the 21/11/1959. All information before this date, if they exist, might be missing.

Best historical scorers against Newcastle United

Chris Sutton	5 goals	1995 - 1998
David Dunn	3 goals	2001 - 2002
Mike England	2 goals	1965 - 1965
Alistair MacLeod	2 goals	1960 - 1961
Martin Taylor	2 goals	2002 - 2002
Graham Fenton	2 goals	1996 - 1996

First data collected by footballdatabase.eu on the 21/11/1959. All information before this date, if they exist, might be missing.

Players with most games played vs Blackburn

Shay Given	16 matches	1998 - 2007
Rob Lee	15 matches	1993 - 2001
Alan Shearer	15 matches	1996 - 2006
Gary Speed	13 matches	1998 - 2004
Aaron Hughes	12 matches	1998 - 2004
Nolberto Solano	12 matches	1998 - 2007

First data collected by footballdatabase.eu on the 21/11/1959. All information before this date, if they exist, might be missing.

Players with most games played vs Newcastle United

Henning Berg	14 matches	1993 - 2003
Brad Friedel	14 matches	2001 - 2008
Tim Sherwood	12 matches	1993 - 1998
Tim Flowers	12 matches	1994 - 1999
Jason Wilcox	12 matches	1993 - 1999
Kerimoglu Tugay	11 matches	2001 - 2007