Swansea City vs Blackburn Rovers Live Stream, Predictions

📏 Form Guide

Swansea City

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Swansea City head into this fixture coming off the back of a 1-1 Championship drawn result against Rotherham United.

In that match, Swansea City had 74% possession and 14 attempts at goal with 5 on target. The only player on the scoresheet for Swansea City was Harry Darling (38'). On the other side, Rotherham United had 9 shots on goal with 8 of them on target. Chiedozie Ogbene (16') was the scorer for Rotherham United.

It’s been all too rare in recent times where Swansea City have managed to hold out for a full 90 minutes. In fact, Swansea City have been scored against in 6 of their previous 6 clashes, leaking 15 goals on the way. Nonetheless, we will just have to wait and see whether the trend might be replicated in this game or not.

Going into this encounter, Swansea City are without a win at home for the past 4 league games. Fans are getting restless.

Blackburn Rovers

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Blackburn Rovers head into the game following a 1-0 Championship win versus Queens Park Rangers in their most recent outing.

In that match, Blackburn Rovers managed 50% possession and 9 attempts on goal with 4 on target. The only player on the scoresheet for Blackburn Rovers was Lewis Travis (34'). At the other end, Queens Park Rangers got 4 attempts at goal with 0 on target.

The stats tell the story, and Blackburn Rovers have been scored against in 5 of their last 6 matches, with opponents netting 8 goals in total. Defensively, Blackburn Rovers could really do with shoring things up.

Coming into this clash, Blackburn Rovers are undefeated in their last 2 league matches away from home.

🤜🤛 Head to head

An examination of their prior head to head clashes stretching back to 11/12/2019 shows that Swansea City have won 2 of them and Blackburn Rovers 1, with the tally of draws being 3.

14 goals were produced between them during those clashes, with 8 of them for The Swans and 6 created by Rovers. The average goals per game has been 2.33.

📋 Team News: Swansea City

Liam Walsh (Achilles tendon rupture) and Ben Cabango (Ankle Injury) won’t be able to feature for Swansea City boss Russell Martin.

📰 Team News: Blackburn Rovers

With a completely injury-free squad available for selection, the Blackburn Rovers manager Jon Dahl Tomasson doesn’t have any fitness concerns whatsoever ahead of this match.

⚡ Prediction

Our assessment is that Blackburn Rovers will manage to break down this Swansea City outfit, although that possibly won’t be enough to avoid defeat.

Our selection here is for a close game with a 2-1 victory for Swansea City by the conclusion of the game. Let’s wait and see how it plays out.

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Victor Martins, 02:50 02/08/2022