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Blackburn 1-0 Man United - December 22, 2002 / Premier League 2002/2003

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Premier League 2002/2003 - Round 19

Ewood Park - Blackburn - England

December 22, 2002

30 475

Blackburn

1 - 0

Man United

Garry Flitcroft

40'

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40' - Goal Garry Flitcroft40

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55' - Substitution David Dunnis substituted by Keith Gillespie55

59' - Substitution Diego Forlánis substituted by Roy Keane

70' - Substitution Ryan Giggsis substituted by David Beckham

84' - Substitution Phil Nevilleis substituted by Laurent Blanc

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Team line-ups Key figures Pre-match Competition info

Blackburn

1 - 0

Man United

Blackburn Man United

Team line-ups

Blackburn

Friedel

Brad Friedel

United States

B.date18/05/1971

Age31 years

H1m91

positionGoalkeeper

Short

Craig Short

England

B.date25/06/1968

Age34 years

H1m91

positionCentral defender

Taylor

Martin Taylor

England

B.date09/11/1979

Age23 years

H1m94

positionCentral defender

Flitcroft40

Garry Flitcroft

England

B.date06/11/1972

Age30 years

H1m80

positionCentral defender

Neill

Lucas Neill

Australia

B.date09/03/1978

Age24 years

H1m85

positionRight central defender

Johansson

Nils-Eric Johansson

Sweden

B.date13/01/1980

Age22 years

H1m85

positionLeft full-back

Dunn55

David Dunn

England

B.date27/12/1979

Age22 years

H1m78

positionCentre Midfield

Duff

Damien Duff

Republic of Ireland

B.date02/03/1979

Age23 years

H1m75

positionMidfield

Tugay

Kerimoglu Tugay

Turkey

B.date24/08/1970

Age32 years

H1m76

positionCentre Midfield

Cole

Andy Cole

England

B.date15/10/1971

Age31 years

H1m80

positionStriker

Yorke

Dwight Yorke

Trinidad and Tobago

B.date03/11/1971

Age31 years

H1m80

positionCentre forward

			Age	Match num	Note
G	Brad Friedel		31	75	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Craig Short		34	52	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Martin Taylor		23	67	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Garry Flitcroft	40	30	141	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Lucas Neill		24	60	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Nils-Eric Johansson		22	50	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	David Dunn	55	22	96	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Damien Duff		23	142	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Kerimoglu Tugay		32	67	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
F	Andy Cole		31	41	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
F	Dwight Yorke		31	22	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player

Average age

27.5 years

Average number of matches played for the team

Man United

Barthez

Fabien Barthez

France

B.date28/06/1971

Age31 years

H1m83

positionGoalkeeper

Silvestre

Mikaël Silvestre

France

B.date09/08/1977

Age25 years

H1m83

positionLeft central defender

Brown

Wes Brown

England

B.date13/10/1979

Age23 years

H1m83

positionCentral defender

P. Neville84

Phil Neville

England

B.date21/01/1977

Age25 years

H1m80

positionLeft full-back

O'Shea

John O'Shea

Republic of Ireland

B.date30/04/1981

Age21 years

H1m90

positionRight full-back

G. Neville

Gary Neville

England

B.date18/02/1975

Age27 years

H1m79

positionRight full-back

Giggs70

Ryan Giggs

Wales

B.date29/11/1973

Age29 years

H1m80

positionMidfield

Scholes

Paul Scholes

England

B.date16/11/1974

Age28 years

H1m71

positionCentre Midfield

Forlán59

Diego Forlán

Uruguay

B.date19/05/1979

Age23 years

H1m80

positionSecond striker

van Nistelrooy

Ruud van Nistelrooy

Netherlands

B.date01/07/1976

Age26 years

H1m88

positionStriker

Solskjaer

Ole Gunnar Solskjaer

Norway

B.date26/02/1973

Age29 years

H1m80

positionStriker

			Age	Match num	Note
G	Fabien Barthez		31	116	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Mikaël Silvestre		25	166	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Wes Brown		23	99	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Phil Neville	84	25	294	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	John O'Shea		21	45	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Gary Neville		27	368	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Ryan Giggs	70	29	514	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Paul Scholes		28	348	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
F	Diego Forlán	59	23	47	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
F	Ruud van Nistelrooy		26	74	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
F	Ole Gunnar Solskjaer		29	282	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player

Average age

26.1 years

Average number of matches played for the team

214

Substitutes					Age	Match num	Note
	M		Keith Gillespie	55	27	82	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player

			Age	Match num	Note
D	Laurent Blanc	84	37	69	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Roy Keane	59	31	367	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	David Beckham	70	27	366	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player

Changes in the starting players regarding the previous match

David Dunn

David Thompson

OUT

Nils-Eric Johansson

Stig Inge Bjørnebye

OUT

Damien Duff

Keith Gillespie

OUT

Changes in the starting players regarding the previous match

Ruud van Nistelrooy

David Beckham

OUT

Ole Gunnar Solskjaer

Juan Sebastián Verón

OUT

Manager

Age

Match num

Graeme Souness

142

Success rate in this team:

45 %

Success rate since the beginning of his career:

51 %

Souness vs Man United

3 victories

4 draws

3 losses

Latest figure on December 22, 2002

Souness vs Ferguson

4 victories

4 draws

3 losses

Latest figure on December 22, 2002

Manager

Age

Match num

Sir Alex Ferguson

893

Success rate in this team:

56 %

Success rate since the beginning of his career:

55 %

Ferguson vs Blackburn

11 victories

5 draws

2 losses

Latest figure on December 22, 2002

Ferguson vs Souness

3 victories

4 draws

4 losses

Latest figure on December 22, 2002

Referee

David Elleray

4 victories	2 draws	5 losses	Blackburn11 matches	General total	Man United26 matches	12 victories	10 draws	4 losses
1 victory	1 draw	0 loss	Blackburn2 matches	Season total	Man United1 match	0 victory	0 draw	1 loss
Latest figure on January 25, 2003					Latest figure on December 22, 2002

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Key figures

No Manchester United manager (with more than 30 matches on the bench) before Sir Alex Ferguson has done less than 19% of losses .

Lucas Neill played his game number 50 in Premier League

End of streak for Blackburn after 13 consecutive matches without a win vs Man United (since 14/08/1994). It's a record streak. The previous one was back on the 26/12/1993 (11 matches)

Read the next 18 key stats

Pre-match

Current form

Home

DBlackburn 0-0 Aston Villa03/11/2002

DBlackburn 2-2 Walsall06/11/2002

LBlackburn 0-2 Celtic Glasgow14/11/2002

LBlackburn 0-1 Everton17/11/2002

VBlackburn 2-1 Fulham30/11/2002

VBlackburn 4-0 Rotherham United04/12/2002

Overall

LCharlton 3-1 Blackburn24/11/2002

VBlackburn 2-1 Fulham30/11/2002

VBlackburn 4-0 Rotherham United04/12/2002

DBolton Wanderers 1-1 Blackburn07/12/2002

LEverton 2-1 Blackburn14/12/2002

VWigan 0-2 Blackburn17/12/2002

Current form

Away

LMaccabi Haïfa 3-0 Manchester United29/10/2002

LManchester City 3-1 Manchester United09/11/2002

DWest Ham 1-1 Manchester United17/11/2002

VFC Basel 1-3 Manchester United26/11/2002

VLiverpool 1-2 Manchester United01/12/2002

VBurnley 0-2 Manchester United03/12/2002

Overall

VLiverpool 1-2 Manchester United01/12/2002

VBurnley 0-2 Manchester United03/12/2002

VManchester United 2-0 Arsenal07/12/2002

VManchester United 2-0 Deportivo La Coruña11/12/2002

VManchester United 3-0 West Ham14/12/2002

VManchester United 1-0 Chelsea17/12/2002

Running streaks

	Home	Total
Winning streak	2	1
Unbeaten streak	2	1
Drawless streak	4	2
Scoring streak	2	6
Invincibility streak	1	1

Running streaks

	Away	Total
Winning streak	3	8
Unbeaten streak	4	10
Drawless streak	3	8
Scoring streak	5	13
Invincibility streak	1	5

Statistical comparison of the season

Results

18	Number of games (Competition total)	18
9	Number of games (Home / Away)	8
6	Victories (Competition total)	10
3	Victories (Home / Away)	2
6	Draws (Competition total)	5
3	Draws (Home / Away)	4
6	Losses (Competition total)	3
3	Losses (Home / Away)	2

Goals

24	Goals scored (Competition total)	30
13	Goals scored (Home / Away)	11
22	Goals conceded (Competition total)	17
11	Goals conceded (Home / Away)	11
1.33	Goals scored per match average (Competition total)	1.67
1.44	Goals scored per match average (Home / Away)	1.38
1.22	Conceced goals per match average (Competition total)	0.94
1.22	Conceced goals per match average (Home / Away)	1.38

Betting aid

9	Number of matches with more than 2,5 goals (Competition total)	8
5	Number of matches with more than 2,5 goals (Home / Away)	4
5	Clean sheets (Competition total)	6
3	Clean sheets (Home / Away)	0
4	Matches without scoring (Competition total)	2
3	Matches without scoring (Home / Away)	1
11	The 2 teams score (Competition total)	10
5	The 2 teams score (Home / Away)	7
0-0 (2 times)	Most frequent score (Home / Away)	1-1 (3 times)

Bookings

31	Yellow cards (Competition total)	26
13	Yellow cards (Home / Away)	18
3	Red cards (Competition total)	1
0	Red cards (Home / Away)	1

Key players

David Dunn	4 goals	Team's best scorer (Competition total)	8 goals	Ruud van Nistelrooy
David Dunn	4 goals	Team's best scorer (Home / Away)	3 goals	Ryan Giggs
David Dunn	2 penalties	Team's penalty best scorer (Competition total)	3 penalties	Ruud van Nistelrooy
David Dunn	2 penalties	Team's penalty best scorer (Home / Away)		-
Andy Cole	1 goal during the last match	The fittest player	4 goals during the last 9 matches	Ole Gunnar Solskjaer

Historical head to head

Home

41 matches

16 v

10 d

15 l

81 gf

72 ga

Away

40 matches

8 v

11 d

21 l

45 gf

78 ga

Neutral ground

1 match

0 v

0 d

1 l

0 gf

2 ga

Total

82 matches

24 v

21 d

37 l

126 gf

152 ga

Historical head to head

Home

40 matches

21 v

11 d

8 l

78 gf

45 ga

Away

41 matches

15 v

10 d

16 l

72 gf

81 ga

Neutral ground

1 match

1 v

0 d

0 l

2 gf

0 ga

Total

82 matches

37 v

21 d

24 l

152 gf

126 ga

Largest victory

Overall	7 - 0	April 10, 1926
Home	7 - 0	April 10, 1926

Largest victory

Overall	5 - 0	April 03, 1965
Away	5 - 0	April 03, 1965

Latest head to head

January 19, 2002 - Premier League 2001/2002

Man United

2 - 1

Blackburn

August 22, 2001 - Premier League 2001/2002

Blackburn

2 - 2

Man United

May 12, 1999 - Premier League 1998/1999

Blackburn

0 - 0

Man United

November 14, 1998 - Premier League 1998/1999

Man United

3 - 2

Blackburn

April 06, 1998 - Premier League 1997/1998

Blackburn

1 - 3

Man United

Best historical scorers against Man United

Mike Harrison	5 goals	1962 - 1966
Frederick Pickering	3 goals	1962 - 1964
Derek Dougan	3 goals	1960 - 1960
Paul Warhurst	3 goals	1994 - 1997
Alan Shearer	3 goals	1994 - 1995
Kevin Gallacher	2 goals	1993 - 1993

First data collected by footballdatabase.eu on the 06/09/1958. All information before this date, if they exist, might be missing.

Best historical scorers against Blackburn

Bobby Charlton	10 goals	1958 - 1966
David Herd	6 goals	1961 - 1966
Albert Quixall	5 goals	1959 - 1963
Denis Law	4 goals	1963 - 1965
Éric Cantona	4 goals	1994 - 1997
Paul Scholes	4 goals	1997 - 1998

First data collected by footballdatabase.eu on the 06/09/1958. All information before this date, if they exist, might be missing.

Players with most games played vs Man United

Tim Sherwood	13 matches	1992 - 1998
Jason Wilcox	12 matches	1992 - 1999
Colin Hendry	12 matches	1992 - 1998
Ronnie Clayton	11 matches	1960 - 1966
Henning Berg	10 matches	1993 - 2001
Tim Flowers	10 matches	1993 - 1997

First data collected by footballdatabase.eu on the 06/09/1958. All information before this date, if they exist, might be missing.

Players with most games played vs Blackburn

Bobby Charlton	15 matches	1958 - 1966
Peter Schmeichel	14 matches	1992 - 1999
Ryan Giggs	14 matches	1992 - 2002
Gary Pallister	13 matches	1992 - 1998
Denis Irwin	13 matches	1992 - 2002
Bill Foulkes	13 matches	1958 - 1965