📏 Form Guide

Blackpool

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Blackpool will be wanting a better result here after the 0-2 League One defeat in their last game at the hands of Birmingham City.

Ethan Laird (39') and Alfie May (51') scored for Birmingham City.

At least three goals per match were recorded in 5 of the last 6 meetings where Blackpool have been involved. Their opponents scored 7 of them in this period whereas Blackpool totted up 11. That being said, time will tell if the trend will continue on in this upcoming match or not.

Coming into this fixture, Blackpool have not been beaten in the league by Bristol Rovers in their previous 4 matches.

Bristol Rovers

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After being defeated in their last game at the hands of Reading in League One action, Bristol Rovers and their fans will hope to get a better result this time.

Lewis Wing (67') and Chem Campbell (94') scored for Reading.

The attacking players from Bristol Rovers have had real problems scoring goals over their last 6 encounters, recording the poor return of just 3. In those fixtures, The Pirates have also seen the overall goal tally against them equal 9.

Their previous form shows that Bristol Rovers:

• have not beaten Blackpool in games played away from home for the previous 3 league matches.
• are without an away win for the past 9 matches in the league. It's not a good run at all.

🤜🤛 Head to head

Looking over their past head-to-head meetings dating back to 15/02/2020 shows us that Blackpool have won 4 of these games and Bristol Rovers 2, with the number of draws being 0.

A combined total of 16 goals were yielded between them in these games, with 10 of them for The Seasiders and 6 created by The Pirates. The average number of goals per game works out to 2.67.

The previous league meeting between these clubs was League One match day 11 on 26/11/2024 which ended up with the score at Bristol Rovers 0-2 Blackpool.

The referee was Thomas Parsons.

📰 Team News: Blackpool

There’s just a single fitness concern for the Blackpool gaffer Steve Bruce to be concerned about from an otherwise fully-primed set of players. Andy Lyons (Cruciate ligament injury) won’t play.

📋 Team News: Bristol Rovers

Out of a mainly available group, there’s only the lone fitness problem for the Bristol Rovers boss Iñigo Calderón to contend with. Kamil Conteh (Bone inflammation) misses out for this game.

🧠 Prediction

We’ve got the feeling that Blackpool are likely to be able to create a decent number of chances and shots on target.

At the other end, Bristol Rovers might well find it a difficult task to score but we can see them converting at least once here.

We’re therefore expecting to see a comfortable 3-1 winning margin for Blackpool at full-time.

Andre Moura, 13:04 03/05/2025