FULL TIME: Blackburn Rovers 2 Coventry City 2 (From Lancashire Telegraph)
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FULL TIME: Blackburn Rovers 2 Coventry City 2
4:55pm Saturday 14th February 2009 in Sport
CHRIS Samba stopped Coventry City dumping Blackburn Rovers out of the FA Cup for the second consecutive season with an injury time equaliser.
Second half goals from Aron Gunnarsson and Michael Doyle had wiped out Roque Santa Crus's second minute opener to put Coventry on the brink of the quarter finals.
Samba though turned home from close range after Keith Treacy's long-range strike had been fumbled by goalkeeper Andy Marshall in the dying seconds.
Carlos Villanueva almost added to Rovers' lead at the start of the second half but his deflected 20-yard free-kick was just scrambled wide by goalkeeper Andy Marshall.
Coventry then started to pile forward and, bouyed on by their vocal travelling support, forced a series of pressure as Rovers were put under their first period of sustained pressure.
The equaliser came on 61 minutes when a Coventry corner was cleared to Aron Gunnarsson 25 yards out from goal and his volley looped over Paul Robinson into the net.
Rovers thought they had regained the lead on 69 minutes when Gael Givet flicked David Dunn's free kick past Marshall.
With players and fans celebrating though, referee Mr Tanner had already blown for a supposed tug on Gunnarsson's shirt by Givet.
On 76 minutes, Michael Doyle fired the visitors into the lead via a deflection off Chris Samba, as the ball looped over the stranded Robinson.
Substitute Benni McCarthy rightly had a goal disallowed for offside with 10 minutes remaining before Samba converted on the turn on 92.
Rovers had been handed the perfect start inside two minutes as Santa Cruz scored his first goal since mid November.
Paul Robinson's long clearance was knocked down by Chris Samba and the Paraguayan striker brilliantly drilled the ball across goalkeeper Andy Marshall into the far corner from the left of the penalty area.
Comments(17)
Morst the 88th min Heartbreaker of Dingles!
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5:28pm Sat 14 Feb 09
BSF – If you are on TV in Spain on Wed night this is the result you get. Now instead of going for it and putting a team next to Blackpool in the Chumpionship out “At Home” we have what we did not want – a replay.
For me you can play the reserves at the Gloryhunters next week as you will get nowt anyway and save the first team for the replay in what is the greatest competition in BRFC’s history.
Let some clubs at least retain some dignity in this greed laden money mad world.
30…….
jackthelad
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6:23pm Sat 14 Feb 09
basherb
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6:51pm Sat 14 Feb 09
marsy
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7:24pm Sat 14 Feb 09
Can't believe we have not won today.
The 11 that started and 3 that came on should have been fully capable of beating Coventry but somehow contrived not too ??? And now another replay that plays on our minds when it should have been done and dusted today ( accepting Givet's goal was good, we can't rely on refs inconsistency).
Why was Warnock playing Centre mid /Leftish when we have Dunny and Grella now fit? Understood it maybe the right thing to do when these were both injured and we had Tugay and Andrews to choose from? Surely, he should be at LB or LWB and let the true CM's play their positions !!
Lets get an established formation.
Givet to me looks capable enough in defence but is more a Left Berth Centre Back to me and BFS seems reluctant to stand down Nelsen on an ongoing basis.
Tugay and Dunny seemed well of the pace today especially the former and to me without stats how can we as a prem team at home not have the lions share of possession? Also, how can we be on the back foot from 50 -80 minutes at home when its 1-1 then 1-2 ? Baffling !!
We can't seem to keep 2 goals out against any srike pair or an opposition's attacking options and BFS is obviously trying to get his best defensive blend, but we are knackered if we go into games at 0-2 before kick off as I can't see RSC, Benni and Robbi weighing in 2 /3 per game !!
Things need to improve and fast.
moggy669
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7:47pm Sat 14 Feb 09
mustaffa krapp wrote:Speak english you t#t
u boyz tuk a beetin agen u is goin down init 15k 4 crow is **** ugle peepl
bed and breakfast man !
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8:23pm Sat 14 Feb 09
MJ Rover
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1:17am Sun 15 Feb 09
One thing today showed up was that some of those players are simply not good enough. Simpson was very poor and couldn't seem to kick the ball straight. Dunn promised to make something happen in the first half, but always tries to do too much and Tugay was never really in it. Villanueva looked ok, but disappeared in the second half, when we barely got out of our half.
On the plus side, Givet again looked very accomplished and was very unfotunate to have his goal disallowed by yet another poor refereeing decision.
Allardyce has got some big issues to fix as for most of the second half we were totally outplayed by a Championship side. Not good enough.
Wandering in Darwen
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9:00am Sun 15 Feb 09
marghen
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9:50am Sun 15 Feb 09
bed and breakfast man ! wrote:Hey up, if it hadn’t been for him we wouldn’t have got a draw!
Bloody streaker spoilt the day,Couldnt have been a nice woman in all the trick gear ,Could it?
bed and breakfast man !
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10:16am Sun 15 Feb 09
After half time,I dont know what happened,We lost our shape ,Let them into the game,Some will not like this But we where 5hite,Lucky that Samba got us back in,But its another game to play.
The guy who run on,The last time i remember anybody running on was when we played Celtic,And that lad run on showing a Rangers shirt,Can you imagine what if they had got there hands on him that night.
Morst the 88th min Heartbreaker of Dingles!
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10:31am Sun 15 Feb 09
basherb wrote:I think many people in the current climate having forked out for a season ticket to get the discount seem to think they will let the cup go and save some cash.
I could not believe the gate today,£15 a ticket we don't deserve to be premier league, everybody is just taking ot for granted, How can the players motivate themselves. Come on Blackburn support your club, these are the times that we shouls all be appreciating!!
Coming just after Christmas and some teams (BFS is the worst) making it clear they don't much care and play weak teams also does not help.
For Coventry it was their biggest game of the season and it showed with a passion our team lacked - though when you play Warnock on the left wing you wonder what is the point of a squad!
The FA and clubs need to get real about prices for the early rounds as it was an opportunity wasted to put 16,000 empty seats to good use. Perhaps if the clubs hands are tied by the FA rules was there anything stopping them offering anyone who went yesterday a £10 voucher off the next home game or something?
security "bank-much" I doubt we did but at least 6,000 Coventry fans made it a better gate - perhaps we will get on TV in the replay and get some cash?
As many fans have said on here - "John Williams make me want my old seat back"
30........
marghen
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11:14am Sun 15 Feb 09
I watched the game live(2min delay) over the net & the first half we played really well with Villanau (sp) running the show-he did disappear in the second half - we scored a perfectly good goal, which, for some reason unbeknown to the rest of us. the referee disallowed -the new French guy played well throughout the game, probably our best player-Samba is always a threat & scored a deserved goal which saved our bacon-we should have been 2or 3 up at half time… My opinion could be flawed because even though a saved myself 200 notes not travelling, you can’t beat being live at the game even though the only sound/atmosphere came out of my right hand speaker!! Seems like I wasn’t the only Rovers fan who didn’t turn up!
jukes
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11:58am Sun 15 Feb 09
Joepublicspeaking
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4:49pm Sun 15 Feb 09
gm334
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5:45pm Sun 15 Feb 09
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whalleyc
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8:06pm Sun 15 Feb 09
lohor,etc,none of these are BFS traits so what,s going on week after week,god help us next week??please sort out the midfield/right-wing,
staying up LOL..
suttydog
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8:23pm Sun 15 Feb 09
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