Sheffield United vs Blackburn Rovers Live Stream, Predictions

📏 Form Guide

Sheffield United

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Sheffield United will be looking for a repeat result of the 1-2 Championship success over Sunderland.

In that game, Sheffield United managed 45% possession and 11 shots at goal with 4 on target. For Sheffield United, the scorers were James McAtee (45') and Tommy Doyle (61'). On the other side, Sunderland got 7 shots at goal with 3 of them on target. Édouard Michut (30') scored for Sunderland.

Under three goals per match were scored during 5 of the past 6 meetings where Sheffield United have taken part. In terms of the goal weighting in this period, their opponents scored a total of 3 while Sheffield United managed a tally of 5.

Blackburn Rovers

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Blackburn Rovers head into the match after a 2-1 Championship win against Reading in their previous fixture.

In that game, Blackburn Rovers had 53% possession and 12 attempts at goal with 6 of them on target. For Blackburn Rovers, goals were scored by Ben Brereton Díaz (2') and Ryan Hedges (82'). Reading had 9 attempts on goal with 4 on target. Cesare Casadei (68') scored for Reading.

In their previous six clashes, Blackburn Rovers have helped themselves to a total of 11 goals. Blackburn Rovers have also scored on each one of those occasions. Over that period, they have seen 6 goals go against them. With no two games being the same, time will tell if that pattern will be replicated in this next game.

↔️ Head to head

Inspecting their past head to head clashes stretching back to 29/12/2018 tells us that Sheffield United have won 4 of these & Blackburn Rovers 2, with the number of drawn games standing at 0.

A combined total of 15 goals were shared by the two clubs in this period, with 10 of them from The Blades and 5 belonging to Rovers. This gives an average number of goals per game equal to 2.5.

The previous league game featuring the two was Championship match day 35 on 04/03/2023 which finished with the scoreline of Blackburn Rovers 1-0 Sheffield United.

In that match, Blackburn Rovers had 46% possession and 11 attempts at goal with 2 of them on target. Their only player to score was Harry Pickering (5').

Sheffield United got 14 attempts on goal with 4 on target.

The match was refereed by Joshua Smith.

ℹ️ Team News: Sheffield United

Nearly everyone is up for selection, with just one fitness concern for the Sheffield United boss Paul Heckingbottom to be concerned about from an otherwise fully-primed group. Jack O'Connell (Knee Surgery) is sidelined.

📰 Team News: Blackburn Rovers

Owing to a fully injury-free group to pick from, the Blackburn Rovers boss Jon Dahl Tomasson doesn’t have any fitness worries whatsoever before this match.

✨ Prediction

In our opinion, Sheffield United should see a lot of the ball and convert quite a few goal-scoring opportunities.

However, Blackburn Rovers will be up against it getting on the scoresheet - but, we do see them scoring here as well.

Accordingly, we see a 3-1 win for Sheffield United at full-time.

Our expert partners are tipping over 1.5 goals for this match. Check out their VIP predictions here.

Renata Leite, 02:24 15/03/2023