2nd spot in the Championship table for Blackburn Rovers right now, a strong showing. The match-going fans pray for more excitement as 14th-placed Birmingham City visit Ewood Park.
- Blackburn Rovers have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded at home.
It’s busy days for these teams as both were in action only a few days ago. There’s no rest for the wicked, or in this case; no rest for Blackburn and Birmingham City.
Blackburn Rovers form and stats
18 points is a decent return from 8 Championship games here at Ewood Park for Blackburn Rovers. The data says 6 wins, 0 draws and 2 losses. Blackburn Rovers has won so many consecutive home games (four in a row) that they struggle to remember the last time points were lost here at Ewood Park. We remember; it was Bristol City.
Blackburn's last game was hosting Sunderland (placed 13th) and winning 2-0. Midfield player Hedges got a match rating of 7.92 in that game, the max score being 10. Hedges served one assist, hit one key pass, dribled past the opponent 1 of 2 times and had 27 successful passes (of 29 total).
Before that match, a win away at Middlesbrough.The home team are moderate favourites in this game. How does Blackburn Rovers handle that role? We have found 12 games in our database similar to this one, based on the home odds. The stats for these games are 7 wins, 3 draws and 2 defeats.
It should be noted that a peek at the 13 most recent league fixtures shows that 10 of them qualified as a both teams to score: NO result (only one or none of the sides scored).
Blackburn have proved capable of finding the net in their games here at Ewood Park with 14 goals in 8 league matches. It's worth mentioning that 7 of these goals has been scored in their last three home matches. Blackburn Rovers are not conceding a lot of goals here at Ewood Park in the league, averaging less than one per game. The total is 6 from 8 matches.
Birmingham City form and stats
The visitors are W3-D2-L3 on the road this term. That's in the Championship.
There were no winners in Birmingham's previous match, the home game that ended 1-1 vs Burnley (placed 3rd). Longelo got a match rating of 7.54 in that game, top player of the team. Longelo dribled past the opponent 5 of 5 times.
Ahead of that match was the victory versus Hull City at their stadium, the result 2-0.Birmingham City are the outsiders in this one, but not by much. Their performance in similar games (being the away team and moderate outsiders) is 3 wins, 5 draws and 5 defeats. From a total of 13 matches.
Lacking goals? 10 of this team's last 13 league rounds have had zero, one or two goals.
The attacking power of Birmingham City when travelling is not overwhelming with 7 goals scored from 8 league matches away. It's not easy to score on Birmingham as they have only conceded 7 goals from these away games.
Head 2 Head
Blackburn Rovers have been victorious in every one of the 4 most recent matches against this side. Can they do it again?Top Goalscorers
  B. Brereton 8 goals |   S. Hogan 6 goals |  L. Travis 2 goals |
Blackburn Rovers missing players
Birmingham City missing players
| Blackburn Rovers | Birmingham City | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 16 | 8 | 5 | Played | P | 2 | 8 | 15 |
| 9 | 6 | 3 | Won | W | 0 | 3 | 5 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Drew | D | 2 | 2 | 5 |
| 7 | 2 | 2 | Lost | L | 0 | 3 | 5 |
| 20 | 14 | 9 | Scored | S | 1 | 7 | 15 |
| 17 | 6 | 4 | Conceded | C | 1 | 7 | 13 |
| 100% | 100% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 50% | 88% | 87% |
| 69% | 75% | 80% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 50% | 50% | 60% |
| 50% | 50% | 40% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 0% | 12% | 27% |
| 6% | 12% | 20% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 0% | 12% | 7% |
| 6% | 12% | 20% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 12% | 7% |
| 25% | 38% | 20% | BTTS | BTTS | 50% | 25% | 40% |
| 38% | 50% | 60% | Clean Sheets | C S | 50% | 38% | 33% |
| 38% | 12% | 20% | Failed to Score | F T | 50% | 50% | 40% |
| 4.5 | 6 | 7.4 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 5 | 4.2 | 5.1 |
| 5.3 | 4.1 | 4.8 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 6.5 | 5.6 | 5.3 |
| 2.1 | 2 | 2 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 3 | 2.6 | 2.1 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 9.9 | 12.5 | 14.2 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 10 | 8.6 | 10.1 |
| 3.1 | 4 | 4.2 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 2.5 | 2.5 | 2.9 |
| 40% | 44% | 43% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 20% | 35% | 34% |
| 12 | 9.6 | 10.2 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 14.5 | 14.6 | 12.7 |
| 3.9 | 2.9 | 3.4 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 4.5 | 4 | 3.2 |
- Blackburn Rovers have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded at home.
- Blackburn Rovers have won significantly more corners at home than away.
- Blackburn Rovers haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | Queens Park Rangers | 15 | 8 | 3 | 4 | 23 | 16 | 7 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 12 | 6 | 8 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 11 | 10 | 7 | 27 |
| 2 | Blackburn Rovers | 16 | 9 | 0 | 7 | 20 | 17 | 8 | 6 | 0 | 2 | 14 | 6 | 8 | 3 | 0 | 5 | 6 | 11 | 3 | 27 |
| 3 | Burnley | 15 | 6 | 8 | 1 | 25 | 13 | 7 | 3 | 4 | 0 | 14 | 7 | 8 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 11 | 6 | 12 | 26 |
| 4 | Sheffield United | 15 | 7 | 4 | 4 | 24 | 14 | 7 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 15 | 6 | 8 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 9 | 8 | 10 | 25 |
| 5 | Luton Town | 15 | 6 | 6 | 3 | 20 | 14 | 8 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 12 | 10 | 7 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 8 | 4 | 6 | 24 |
| 6 | Norwich City | 15 | 7 | 3 | 5 | 21 | 16 | 8 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 14 | 9 | 7 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 7 | 7 | 5 | 24 |
| 7 | Swansea City | 15 | 7 | 3 | 5 | 20 | 22 | 8 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 11 | 11 | 7 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 9 | 11 | -2 | 24 |
| 8 | Millwall | 15 | 7 | 2 | 6 | 20 | 18 | 8 | 6 | 0 | 2 | 14 | 6 | 7 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 6 | 12 | 2 | 23 |
| 9 | Preston North End | 16 | 5 | 7 | 4 | 9 | 10 | 8 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 6 | 8 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 7 | 4 | -1 | 22 |
| 10 | Reading | 15 | 7 | 1 | 7 | 17 | 23 | 8 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 12 | 9 | 7 | 2 | 0 | 5 | 5 | 14 | -6 | 22 |
| 11 | Rotherham United | 14 | 5 | 6 | 3 | 16 | 13 | 8 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 14 | 6 | 6 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 7 | 3 | 21 |
| 12 | Bristol City | 16 | 6 | 3 | 7 | 25 | 24 | 8 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 12 | 8 | 8 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 13 | 16 | 1 | 21 |
| 13 | Sunderland | 15 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 19 | 16 | 7 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 8 | 5 | 8 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 11 | 11 | 3 | 20 |
| 14 | Birmingham City | 15 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 15 | 13 | 7 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 8 | 6 | 8 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 7 | 7 | 2 | 20 |
| 15 | Watford | 15 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 19 | 20 | 7 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 11 | 9 | 8 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 8 | 11 | -1 | 20 |
| 16 | Stoke City | 15 | 5 | 4 | 6 | 17 | 18 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 8 | 10 | 8 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 9 | 8 | -1 | 19 |
| 17 | Wigan Athletic | 15 | 5 | 4 | 6 | 16 | 22 | 8 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 6 | 15 | 7 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 10 | 7 | -6 | 19 |
| 18 | Cardiff City | 15 | 5 | 3 | 7 | 12 | 17 | 7 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 4 | 8 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 7 | 13 | -5 | 18 |
| 19 | Hull City | 15 | 5 | 2 | 8 | 16 | 29 | 8 | 4 | 0 | 4 | 9 | 14 | 7 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 7 | 15 | -13 | 17 |
| 20 | Middlesbrough | 15 | 4 | 4 | 7 | 19 | 21 | 8 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 10 | 9 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 9 | 12 | -2 | 16 |
| 21 | Blackpool | 15 | 4 | 4 | 7 | 17 | 23 | 7 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 8 | 10 | 8 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 9 | 13 | -6 | 16 |
| 22 | West Bromwich Albion | 15 | 2 | 8 | 5 | 19 | 20 | 8 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 11 | 12 | 7 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 8 | 8 | -1 | 14 |
| 23 | Coventry City | 12 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 10 | 14 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 8 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 8 | 12 | -4 | 13 |
| 24 | Huddersfield Town | 14 | 3 | 2 | 9 | 16 | 22 | 8 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 9 | 8 | 6 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 7 | 14 | -6 | 11 |
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