📏 Form Guide

Bristol City

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Bristol City go into this game following on from a 0-0 Championship drawn result versus Sunderland.

In that game, Bristol City had 43% possession and 8 attempts on goal with 2 of them on target. For their opponents, Sunderland got 20 attempts at goal with 7 on target.

An interesting theme in recent Bristol City games is seeing a zero in the scoreline.

From their previous sextet of clashes leading up to this one, in 5 of them a bet on both teams scoring would have lost. It will be interesting to find out whether or not that trend will be continued on in this game.

Looking at their past form shows that Bristol City:

• have not beaten Blackburn Rovers in their previous 2 league games.
• are undefeated in their last 2 league matches at home.

Blackburn Rovers

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In their last game, Blackburn Rovers drew 0-0 in the Championship match with Southampton.

In that game, Blackburn Rovers had 31% possession and 11 shots on goal with 3 of them on target. Southampton had 7 attempts on goal with 2 on target.

A sequence of dependable performances from the Blackburn Rovers defence has seen their ‘goals against’ tally standing at 4 from their past 6 clashes overall. In that period, their forwards have scored 7.

Analysis of their past results shows that Blackburn Rovers:

• have not won against Bristol City when they have played them away from home in the previous 3 league matches.
• are undefeated by Bristol City when they've played them away from home in the last 2 league games.
• have not been beaten in their last 2 away league matches.

👥 Head to head

A look at their past head-to-head meetings dating back to 17/03/2021 shows that Bristol City have won 2 of them and Blackburn Rovers 1, with the number of drawn matches being 3.

13 goals were scored between them throughout the course of those matches, with 7 from The Robins and 6 netted by Rovers. That is an average goals per game value of 2.17.

The previous league game featuring the two was Championship match day 21 on 12/12/2023 which finished with the scoreline of Blackburn Rovers 2-1 Bristol City.

On that occasion, Blackburn Rovers managed 53% possession and 13 shots on goal with 3 on target. Goals were scored by Arnór Sigurðsson (35') and Scott Wharton (52').

For their opponents, Bristol City had 12 shots at goal with 6 of them on target. Mark Sykes (60') was the scorer.

The referee was James Linington.

ℹ️ Team News: Bristol City

In our view, The Robins may well use a 3-4-2-1 system this time, handing starts to Max O'Leary, George Tanner, Zak Vyner, Haydon Roberts, Ross McCrorie, Cameron Pring, Joe Williams, Jason Knight, Mark Sykes, Tommy Conway and Scott Twine.

ℹ️ Team News: Blackburn Rovers

Owing to an otherwise healthy group of players, there’s only the sole fitness problem for the Blackburn Rovers manager John Eustace to be concerned about. Arnór Sigurdsson (unknown injury) misses out for this game.

We are inclined to think that Rovers seem likely to play in a 4-2-3-1 formation, settling for Aynsley Pears, Callum Brittain, Dominic Hyam, Scott Wharton, Harry Pickering, Dilan Markanday, Sondre Tronstad, Sammie Szmodics, Joe Rankin-Costello, Tyrhys Dolan and Sam Gallagher.

💡 Prediction

Here is a game where Blackburn Rovers could find themselves struggling to see themselves scoring against this Bristol City lineup who we think might well manage to score & go ahead.

We’re therefore expecting a very competitive encounter with a 1-0 winning margin for Bristol City when all is said and done.

Let’s see what happens.

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Victor Martins, 18:10 10/04/2024