Blackburn Rovers vs Sheffield Wednesday Live Stream, Predictions

📊 Form Guide

Blackburn Rovers

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Blackburn Rovers will want to continue from where they left off last time out with the 0-1 Championship triumph over Leeds United.

In that match, Blackburn Rovers had 25% possession and 3 attempts on goal with 2 of them on target. The scorer for Blackburn Rovers was Sammie Szmodics (82'). Leeds United got 19 attempts on goal with 5 of them on target.

A recurring trait of more recent Blackburn Rovers games is seeing a zero in the scoreline.

From their previous sextet of matches leading up to this one, in as many as 5 of them a wager on BTTS would have been a losing one.

A look at their previous results shows us that Blackburn Rovers:

• are winless against Sheffield Wednesday in their last 3 league matches.
• have not won at home in their last 5 league games. That's never good.

Sheffield Wednesday

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In their last fixture, Sheffield Wednesday drew 1-1 in the Championship match with Stoke City.

In that game, Sheffield Wednesday managed 55% possession and 12 shots on goal with 4 of them on target. The only player on the scoresheet for Sheffield Wednesday was Liam Palmer (68'). On the other side, Stoke City got 8 shots on goal with 2 on target. Luke Cundle (76') scored for Stoke City.

The numbers tell their own story, and Sheffield Wednesday have been scored against in 5 of their last 6 matches, conceding 12 goals in total. Defensively, Sheffield Wednesday have clearly had some problems. Despite that, we’ll just have to find out if that pattern might be sustained in this next game.

Ahead of this meeting, Sheffield Wednesday have not won against Blackburn Rovers in games played away from home for the previous 3 league games.

↔️ Head to head

An examination of their past head-to-head clashes stretching back to 16/03/2019 tells us that Blackburn Rovers have won 2 of these games & Sheffield Wednesday 3, with the tally of draws being 1.

A sum of 21 goals were scored between them throughout the course of those matches, with 11 of them from Rovers and 10 being from The Owls. That’s an average goals per game of 3.5.

The previous league encounter featuring these clubs was Championship match day 19 on 02/12/2023 when it ended Sheffield Wednesday 3-1 Blackburn Rovers.

On that day, Sheffield Wednesday had 37% possession and 13 attempts at goal with 8 of them on target. The goalscorers were Bailey-Tye Cadamarteri (5'), Marvin Johnson (78') and Josh Windass (91').

On the other side, Blackburn Rovers had 18 shots at goal with 5 on target. Sammie Szmodics (65') scored.

The referee was David Webb.

📋 Team News: Blackburn Rovers

There is just a single fitness concern for the Blackburn Rovers gaffer John Eustace to be concerned about from a near full-strength group. Arnór Sigurdsson (unknown injury) misses out.

It seems likely that Rovers could go for a 3-4-2-1 formation for this one and select Aynsley Pears, Hayden Carter, Kyle McFadzean, Dominic Hyam, Callum Brittain, Joe Rankin-Costello, Sondre Tronstad, Harry Pickering, Samuel Szmodics, Tyrhys Dolan and Sam Gallagher.

🗞️ Team News: Sheffield Wednesday

Thanks to a largely full-strength group, there’s just the sole fitness worry for the Sheffield Wednesday manager Danny Röhl to be concerned with. Juan Delgado (Hip injury) misses out for this game.

There’s a good chance that The Owls might make use of a 4-2-3-1 formation, starting James Beadle, Pol Valentin, Dominic Iorfa, Michael Ihiekwe, Akin Famewo, Will Vaulks, Barry Bannan, Anthony Musaba, Josh Windass, Marvin Johnson and Iké Ugbo.

🔮 Prediction

We think that Sheffield Wednesday will have to work hard as a team to get anything against this Blackburn Rovers outfit who we reckon should gain the upper hand.

We therefore think that it’s going to be a very even match with a 1-0 win for Blackburn Rovers when the full-time whistle blows.

Should be an interesting one.

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Lucas Pereira, 16:02 19/04/2024