Blackburn 2 Birmingham 1
Wednesday 24th March 2010, 9:36PM GMT.
Former Birmingham midfielder David Dunn came back to haunt his former club with the double that consigned Blues to defeat at Blackburn.
Dunn had crashed home his first goal as early as the fifth minute and repeated the trick with a header in the second-half, cancelling out James McFadden’s equaliser just after the break.
The former England international spent four years at St Andrew’s before rejoining his first club Rovers, and put in a star turn against his old employers in their latest meeting.
It was Dunn who reacted quickest after the visiting defence failed to clear Christopher Samba’s effort, lashing the ball past goalkeeper Joe Hart to break the deadlock.
But Blues were not going quietly and got the equaliser their effort deserved 1o minutes into the second-half, as McFadden stepped up and whipped in a superb free-kick to haul Alex McLeish’s back into the game.
That stunned Rovers but their response came on 67 and it was that man Dunn again, captialising on the away side’s hesistancy when defending set-pieces to head home El-Hadji Diouf’s corner at the hear post.
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