Blackburn Rovers F.C. - FA Cup 2007-2008
The Third Round Draw - Sunday 2nd Decembner 2007
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Third round draw - FA Cup
Blackburn Rovers will face Coventry City
as Premier League and Championship teams join in this years FA Cup.
The draw made this afternoon sees the Championship side half way down
the table after an average start to the season and have Tim Flowers
as assistant Manager. Last year it was an all Premier start with Rovers
away at Everton - but that 4-1 win saw them progress right through to
the semi-final when they lost to at Old Trafford after extra time. The
big local game will see Burnley face Arsenal at Turf Moor!
The games are scheduled for the 5th and 6th January 2008.
UPDATE - Blackburn Rovers v Coventry City 5th
january 2007 at 15:00hrs
The full draw:-
Preston v Scunthorpe 
Port Vale/Chasetown v Cardiff
Colchester v Peterborough
Bolton v Sheffield United
Blackburn v Coventry
Brighton v Mansfield
Northampton/Walsall v Millwall
Charlton v West Brom
Watford v Crystal Palace
Luton/Nottingham Forest v Liverpool
Plymouth v Hull
Aston Villa v Manchester United
Tranmere v Hereford
Tottenham v Reading
Burnley v Arsenal
Bristol City v Middlesbrough
Fulham v Bristol Rovers
Huddersfield v Birmingham
Horsham/Swansea v Havant & Waterlooville
Sunderland
v Wigan Oxford/Southend
v Dagenham & Redbridge
Everton v Oldham
Derby v Sheffield Wednesday
Southampton v Leicester
West Ham v Manchester City
Ipswich v Portsmouth
Wolves v Cambridge
Barnsley v Blackpool
Chelsea v QPR
Stoke v Newcastle
Swindon v Burton Albion/Barnet
Norwich v Bury
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a good day at the office Rovers booted out of the FA Cup Blackburn Rovers 1-4 Coventry City After what looked like a solid enough start - with Rovers under no threat for half an hour - Coventry City broke and Michael Mifsud scored his first of two FA Cup goals at Ewood. 0-1 down at the break and expectations were that Rovers changed look side (Treacy, Burner and Rigters all started) would soon be back on level terms. Sadly just the reverse was true - and after a little more urgency Zurab Khizanishvili fouled Leon Best on the goal line and Elliott Ward scored from the spot to make it 0-2! From this point on it all got very scrappy - the intended sub of Gamst for Treacy canceled and instead an injured Brett Emerton came off. Next Maceo Rigters was replaced by Ryan Nelsen, and the formation was anyone's guess. Chris Samba went up front with Benni McCarthy and other players seemed unsure of just where they should be. At the second attempt Treacy did go off - but a half fit Matt Derbyshire came on to bolster the attack. Sadly all to no avail as Dele Adebola made it 0-3 in the 82nd minute ... Thankfully a few moments later David Bentley claimed one back fir the disheveled Rovers (1-3) and it looked like a let attach might salvage something. But it was not to be and Michael Mifsud claimed his second deep into injury time. 1-4 the resulting scoreline, and Coventry convincingly through to the 4th round. The RADIO ROVERS inbox was filled with emails from unhappy fans - as texts and phone calls added to the post match misery. Mark Hughes admitted it was all a bitter disappointment:- "I thought Coventry were excellent and fully deserved their win. They seemed to want it more than we did. Our second-half performance was very disappointing and in many aspects it was unacceptable. I'm not going to hide behind any excuses like injuries or team selection, for we had enough out there to have put on a much better show than that. I can understand the fans' frustrations, they have been used to some good times in cup competitions here - with a couple of FA Cup semi-finals in the last three seasons - but this was not one of them." So no more cup glory this season - with Europe and the two domestic competitions now all gone. Mark Hughes now faces his toughest test - to turn round the fortunes in the league and add to the back to back wins with the trip to Bolton next weekend. Incidentally, both they and Everton were also dumped out this afternoon. (5th January 2008)
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