📊 Form Guide

Blackburn Rovers

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Blackburn Rovers will be looking to improve on their last outing here after a 0-2 Championship loss in their previous game against Sheffield United.

In that match, Blackburn Rovers managed 58% possession and 9 attempts at goal with 0 of them on target. On the other side, Sheffield United got 20 shots on goal with 9 of them on target. Harrison Burrows (16') and Tyrese Campbell (64') scored for Sheffield United.

Blackburn Rovers have found it difficult to unlock defences in recent times. Their ‘goals for’ figure stands at just 2 versus opposition teams during the course of their previous 6 fixtures. In those meetings, Blackburn Rovers have also seen the tally of goals against them total 8.

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

• have not lost a league tie with Stoke City in their previous 2 matches.
• are without a win at home for the past 2 matches in the league.

Stoke City

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Stoke City come into this clash following on from a 2-1 Championship win with the downing of Derby County in their last match.

In that game, Stoke City managed 54% possession and 13 attempts on goal with 4 of them on target. For Stoke City, goals were scored by Tom Cannon (9'), Viktor Johansson (68' Own goal) and Ben Gibson (82'). For their opponents, Derby County had 9 attempts at goal with 3 of them on target.

The stats tell the story, and Stoke City have been scored against in 5 of their last 6 games, seeing opposing sides hit 9 goals in all. At the back, Stoke City could really do with shoring things up. We will have to find out if that trend can be continued on here.

Coming into this fixture, Stoke City haven’t won away from home in the past 4 league games.

↔️ Head to head

If we look at their past head to head meetings dating back to 27/11/2021, there is nothing to separate the two clubs with Blackburn Rovers winning 3 of those games, Stoke City 3 and 0 being drawn in normal time.

An aggregate of 15 goals were shared by the two clubs during those clashes, with 9 of them for Rovers and 6 belonging to The Potters. That’s an average goals per game figure of 2.5.

The last league encounter featuring these sides was Championship match day 31 on 10/02/2024 when it finished Blackburn Rovers 3-1 Stoke City.

That day, Blackburn Rovers managed 37% possession and 9 shots on goal with 5 of them on target. The goalscorers were Tyrhys Dolan (7', 37') and Sammie Szmodics (19').

For their opponents, Stoke City had 7 shots at goal with 3 on target. Niall Ennis (39') scored.

The match was refereed by Gavin Ward.

🗞️ Team News: Blackburn Rovers

It seems likely that Rovers look set to make use of the 4-2-3-1 system for this game with Aynsley Pears, Callum Brittain, Danny Batth, Dominic Hyam, Owen Beck, Sondre Tronstad, Lewis Travis, Andreas Weimann, Tyrhys Dolan, Todd Cantwell and Makhtar Gueye.

ℹ️ Team News: Stoke City

Due to a mostly available group of players, there’s only the lone fitness issue for the Stoke City gaffer Narcís Pèlach to be concerned about. Bosun Lawal (Back injury) won’t be in action.

From our viewpoint, The Potters seem most likely to elect for a 4-2-3-1 system, choosing Viktor Johansson, Junior Tchamadeu, Ashley Phillips, Ben Gibson, Enda Stevens, Andy Moran, Wouter Burger, Million Manhoef, Tatsuki Seko, Joon-ho Bae and Thomas Cannon.

🔮 Prediction

We believe that Stoke City will need to apply a lot of pressure to put one past this Blackburn Rovers team who we think will be able to get on the scoresheet themselves in a winning performance.

We therefore think that it’s going to be a very competitive encounter with a 1-0 winning margin for Blackburn Rovers when all is said and done.

It should be a good one.

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Victor Martins, 19:12 06/11/2024