Blackburn Rovers vs Coventry City Live Stream, Predictions

📊 Form Guide

Blackburn Rovers

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Blackburn Rovers will be looking to improve on their last outing here after a 1-3 Championship defeat in their last game at the hands of Sheffield Wednesday.

In that game, Blackburn Rovers had 60% possession and 8 attempts on goal with 3 on target. For Blackburn Rovers, the scorers were Sammie Szmodics (9') and Aynsley Pears (64' Own goal). On the other side, Sheffield Wednesday had 11 attempts at goal with 5 on target. Josh Windass (6') and Marvin Johnson (58') scored for Sheffield Wednesday.

In their past six fixtures, John Eustace's Blackburn Rovers have managed to score 7 times - an average number of goals scored per match equal to 1.17.

Leading up to this clash, Blackburn Rovers:

• have not won against Coventry City in their last 6 league games.
• are without a win at home for the past 6 league games. Their supporters are understandably frustrated.

Coventry City

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After a loss in their previous game against Hull City in Championship action, Coventry City will be aiming to make amends here.

In that match, Coventry City managed 55% possession and 7 attempts at goal with 3 on target. For Coventry City, the scorers were Kasey Palmer (36') and Bobby Thomas (58'). Hull City had 14 attempts at goal with 8 of them on target. Jaden Philogene (31'), Fábio Carvalho (45') and Noah Ohio (78') scored for Hull City.

Demonstrating their involvement in eventful matches, the back of the net has been hit 22 times in the last six matches in which Coventry City have taken to the pitch, giving a mean average of 3.67 goals for each fixture. Opposition teams have got 12 of these goals. Even so, we must now wait to see if such a trend will persist in this match.

Taking a look at their past results, Coventry City:

• haven't won against Blackburn Rovers in away games against them for the last 3 matches in the league.
• haven't been defeated by Blackburn Rovers when having played them away from home in the previous 5 league matches. A very good record, indeed.
• are without an away win for the past 2 league matches.

↔️ Head to head

A look at their most recent head to head meetings going back to 27/02/2021 shows that Blackburn Rovers have won 0 of them and Coventry City 2, with the number of drawn matches being 4.

An aggregate of 14 goals were scored between them in these games, with 6 of them for Rovers and 8 coming from The Sky Blues. This gives an average number of goals per game equal to 2.33.

The last league encounter featuring the two was Championship match day 10 on 04/10/2023 when the final score was Coventry City 1-0 Blackburn Rovers.

On that occasion, Coventry City had 34% possession and 14 shots at goal with 3 on target. Their only player on the scoresheet was Haji Wright (85').

For their opponents, Blackburn Rovers got 14 shots at goal with 4 on target.

The referee was Jeremy Simpson.

📰 Team News: Blackburn Rovers

Looking at personnel, there is just one fitness concern for the Blackburn Rovers gaffer John Eustace to contend with from an otherwise fully-primed group of players. Arnór Sigurdsson (unknown injury) will miss out.

It seems likely that Rovers look set to go for a 3-4-2-1 system for the game, utilising Aynsley Pears, Hayden Carter, Dominic Hyam, Kyle McFadzean, Callum Brittain, Joe Rankin-Costello, Sondre Tronstad, Harry Pickering, Samuel Szmodics, Tyrhys Dolan and Sam Gallagher.

📋 Team News: Coventry City

Thanks to a largely full-strength squad, there is only a single fitness issue for the Coventry City boss Mark Robins to contend with. Tatsuhiro Sakamoto (Back injury) won’t be playing here.

We reckon that The Sky Blues will likely make use of a 4-2-3-1 system, starting the game with Brad Collins, Milan van Ewijk, Bobby Thomas, Liam Kitching, Jake Bidwell, Ben Sheaf, Liam Kelly, Kasey Palmer, Callum O'Hare, Haji Wright and Ellis Simms.

🔮 Prediction

We’re inclined to think that Coventry City and Blackburn Rovers may find themselves both scoring more than one goal each in what promises to be a fairly balanced contest.

An eventful draw is therefore a real possibility, and we are expecting it to be very tight. Our tip is therefore for a very even match with a draw when the full-time whistle blows.

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Peter Guest, 05:01 26/04/2024