Sheffield United vs Blackburn Rovers Live Stream, Predictions (May 03)

📏 Form Guide

Sheffield United

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Sheffield United fans will want a repeat of their previous result, being the 0-2 Championship victory over Stoke City.

In that match, Sheffield United managed 49% possession and 13 shots on goal with 5 on target. For Sheffield United, the goalscorers were Sam McCallum (38') and Andre Brooks (87'). On the other side, Stoke City had 10 attempts at goal with 3 of them on target.

In their past six fixtures, Chris Wilder's Sheffield United have hit the back of the net a total of 6 times, an average number of goals per match of 1.

Blackburn Rovers

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Blackburn Rovers go into this match after a 2-1 Championship win with the defeat of Watford in their previous match.

In that match, Blackburn Rovers managed 55% possession and 10 attempts at goal with 4 on target. For Blackburn Rovers, goals were scored by Todd Cantwell (59') and Tyrhys Dolan (74'). Watford had 9 attempts on goal with 2 of them on target. Mattie Pollock (47') scored for Watford.

Throughout their 6 previous matches, Valérien Ismaël's Blackburn Rovers have managed to stick the ball in the net 10 times thus giving them the goals scored per game average of 1.67.

Analysis of their past results shows that Blackburn Rovers:

• have not emerged victorious against Sheffield United in games played away from home for the previous 6 league games. They'll be keen to stop this run.
• are unbeaten in their last 2 away league matches.

↔️ Head to head

Inspecting their prior head to head meetings dating back to 06/11/2021 shows that Sheffield United have won 4 of them & Blackburn Rovers 2, with the number of draws being 0.

16 goals were scored between them during those clashes, with 10 from The Blades and 6 belonging to Rovers. That’s an average goals per game of 2.67.

The previous league clash featuring these clubs was Championship match day 13 on 02/11/2024 which ended up with the score at Blackburn Rovers 0-2 Sheffield United.

On that occasion, Blackburn Rovers managed 58% possession and 9 shots on goal with 0 of them on target.

On the other side, Sheffield United had 20 attempts on goal with 9 of them on target. Harrison Burrows (16') and Tyrese Campbell (64') scored.

The match was refereed by Oliver Langford.

📰 Team News: Sheffield United

In our view, The Blades should go for a 4-2-3-1 formation for the game and select Michael Cooper, Femi Seriki, Rob Holding, Jack Robinson, Sam McCallum, Tyrese Campbell, Hamza Choudhury, Vinicius Souza, Callum O'Hare, Rhian Brewster and Kieffer Moore.

ℹ️ Team News: Blackburn Rovers

Blackburn Rovers boss Valérien Ismaël has to choose a team with limited availability. Andreas Weimann (Knee surgery) and Hayden Carter (Knee surgery) will not be playing here.

There’s a good chance that Rovers might utilise a 4-4-2 system by sending out Balázs Tóth, Callum Brittain, Danny Batth, Dominic Hyam, Yuri Ribeiro, Lewis Travis, Sondre Tronstad, Ryan Hedges, Tyrhys Dolan, Todd Cantwell and Yuki Ohashi.

⚡ Prediction

We’ve got the feeling that Blackburn Rovers could find themselves up against it to breach the defence of this Sheffield United outfit who we think might well score at least once to put them ahead.

We’re going for a hard-fought 1-0 win for Sheffield United at the end of the match.

Little in this one.

💵 ⚽️ What are the top odds for the game?

Regarding the latest bookmaker odds in the WDW market, staking on Sheffield United can be had for 2.2, a bet on a drawn result is 3.5 & taking a punt on victory for Blackburn Rovers gets 3. Those are the best returns available right now.

Lucas Pereira, 07:04 29/04/2025