📏 Form Guide

Sunderland

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Sunderland will be looking to improve on their last outing here after a 2-1 Championship loss in their previous game against Bristol City.

In that game, Sunderland had 23% possession and 4 attempts on goal with 2 on target. The only player on the scoresheet for Sunderland was Eliezer Mayenda (31'). Bristol City had 27 attempts on goal with 7 on target. Rob Dickie (55') and Ross McCrorie (76') scored for Bristol City.

Fewer than three goals per game were scored during 5 of the past 6 meetings where Sunderland have taken part. With regard to the goal split from this period, their opponents scored a total of 5 and Sunderland got themselves 3.

Going into this one, Sunderland have left without a victory over Blackburn Rovers in their last 2 matches in the league.

Blackburn Rovers

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Blackburn Rovers go into this clash following on from a 4-1 Championship win with the downing of Millwall in their previous fixture.

In that game, Blackburn Rovers had 61% possession and 17 attempts on goal with 6 of them on target. For Blackburn Rovers, goals were scored by Dominic Hyam (42'), Sondre Tronstad (45', 59') and Callum Brittain (50'). On the other side, Millwall got 12 attempts at goal with 6 on target. Mihailo Ivanović (44') was the scorer for Millwall.

It is worth noting that Blackburn Rovers have made hard work of scoring goals in their past 6 games, recording the disappointing return of just 4. In those matches, Rovers have also seen the overall goal tally of their opponents equal 8. It will be interesting to see if that trend will end up being continued on in this game.

🤜🤛 Head to head

A glance at their past head to head meetings dating back to 20/03/2012 shows that Sunderland have won 2 of these games and Blackburn Rovers 3, with the number of draws standing at 1.

A combined sum of 21 goals were scored between the two sides in these games, with 8 of them for The Black Cats and 13 created by Rovers. That’s an average goals per game figure of 3.5.

The previous league meeting between these clubs was Championship match day 23 on 26/12/2024 which ended up with the score at Blackburn Rovers 2-2 Sunderland.

In that match, Blackburn Rovers had 57% possession and 11 shots on goal with 3 on target. The scorers were Yuki Ohashi (13') and Harry Leonard (90').

On the other side, Sunderland got 14 shots on goal with 5 of them on target. Chris Rigg (51') and Wilson Isidor (55') scored.

The match was refereed by Bobby Madley.

ℹ️ Team News: Sunderland

Aji Alese (Broken leg), Daniel Ballard (Hamstring injury) and Niall Huggins (Knee surgery) will not be able to play for Sunderland manager Régis Le Bris.

🗞️ Team News: Blackburn Rovers

Blackburn Rovers boss Valérien Ismaël has to currently contend with reduced team options. Andreas Weimann (Knee surgery) and Hayden Carter (Knee surgery) are names that won’t be on the team sheet.

🔮 Prediction

We envisage that Sunderland look likely to get amongst the goals when they play Blackburn Rovers, who might well find it difficult to score.

Accordingly, we see a pretty comfortable 2-0 victory for Sunderland after 90 minutes.

Peter Guest, 13:02 21/04/2025