Evenly matched teams: Blackburn Rovers vs Nottingham Forest match preview

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Competition: England Championship
Date: Tue 01.October
Match begins: 18:45 (UTC)
Venue: Ewood Park

Blackburn Rovers will hope to utilise their home advantage to help bridge the gap to today's opponents. The home side are currently 5 points behind Nottingham Forest.

There’s little time for restitution or working hard at the training pitch these days, with both teams having played their last game less than four days ago.

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Blackburn Rovers form and stats

Blackburn Rovers have played 5 Championship games at their own stadium so far this season, resulting in 2-1-2 (wins-draws-losses).

The Blackburn Rovers crowd went home unhappy last time out, seeing their beloved players lose 1-2 to Luton Town here at Ewood Park in a Championship match. In the game before, an away victory match versus Reading with a 2-1 scoreline.

This is expected to be a close game, with Blackburn Rovers perhaps considered small favourites due to their home advantage. Looking back at earlier matches similar to this one (expected to be close with Blackburn Rovers as a small favourite), we find 13 games. Blackburn Rovers has won 5 of these, drawn 6 and lost 2.

There's a new game coming up fairly quickly for Blackburn Rovers as they are travelling to their away game against Queens Park Rangers in the Championship. That match is four days after this one.

The Blackburn Rovers fans would probably like to see some more goals scored at their own stadium in the league, the tally being 5 in 5 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 4 from 5 matches.

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Nottingham Forest form and stats

The visitors are W3-D2-L0 on the road this term. That's in the Championship. It’s been three wins in a row for Nottingham Forest on their travels, an amazing performance which inspire hopes of making this one the fourth consecutive victory.

Nottingham Forest play their second away game in a row, but can be confident going into this one after the 3-2 victory visiting Stoke City (placed 24th). Preceding that game, the 0-5 loss visiting Arsenal's place.

As mentioned above, this is an open game with no clear favourite. We have found seven similar matches played by Nottingham Forest in our archives, and the results are: 2 wins for Nottingham Forest, 1 draw and 4 defeats.

A quick return to home after this game, as Nottingham Forest are hosting Brentford in the Championship only four days away.

Nottingham Forest are not goal shy away from home in the league, finding the net 8 times in 5 away games so far. Nottingham Forest have conceded 5 goals in these away matches.

Head 2 Head

Blackburn Rovers-Nottingham Forest H2H statistics last ten meetings regardless of arena: Blackburn Rovers 4 wins, Nottingham Forest 2 wins, 4 draws. 6 of these ten matches had three or more goals (over 2,5).

Top Goalscorers

L. Grabban
5 goals / 1 assists
B. Dack
3 goals
D. Williams
2 goals

Blackburn Rovers missing players

Nottingham Forest missing players

Blackburn Rovers Nottingham Forest
Total Home Home vs top Statistics Stat Away vs mid Away Total
9 5 1 Played P 1 5 9
4 2 0 Won W 1 3 5
1 1 0 Drew D 0 2 3
4 2 1 Lost L 0 0 1
10 5 1 Scored S 2 8 14
10 4 2 Conceded C 1 5 8
89% 80% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 100% 100%
67% 60% 100% Over 1.5 O 1.5 100% 80% 78%
44% 40% 100% Over 2.5 O 2.5 100% 40% 44%
11% 0% 0% Over 3.5 O 3.5 0% 20% 11%
11% 0% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 20% 11%
44% 40% 100% BTTS BTTS 100% 80% 67%
44% 60% 0% Clean Sheets C S 0% 20% 33%
22% 20% 0% Failed to Score F T 0% 0% 0%
 
6.6 8 12 Corners For (avg) C F 1 2.4 4.1
3.4 3 2 Corners Against (avg) C A 13 8.8 7.2
1.3 1.4 0 Yellow Cards (avg) Y C 4 3 2.3
0 0 0 Red Cards R C 0 0 0
Key stats This season:
  • Blackburn Rovers have won at least twice as many corners as they have conceded at home.
  • Blackburn Rovers have won significantly more corners at home than away.
  • Nottingham Forest have conceded at least twice as many corners as they have won away.
  • Nottingham Forest have not yet lost a game away.
  • Nottingham Forest have scored in all their matches so far.
  • Nottingham Forest have won significantly less corners away then at home.
  • Nottingham Forest haven’t played a single 0-0 game.

Blackburn Rovers
All League One Championship Club Friendlies Carabao Cup FA Cup
All Home Away
27-08-19 CC Sheffield United 2 - 1 Blackburn Rovers
31-08-19 CH West Bromwich Albion 3 - 2 Blackburn Rovers
14-09-19 CH Blackburn Rovers 2 - 0 Millwall
21-09-19 CH Reading 1 - 2 Blackburn Rovers
28-09-19 CH Blackburn Rovers 1 - 2 Luton Town
01-10-19 CH Blackburn Rovers 18:45 Nottingham Forest
05-10-19 CH Queens Park Rangers 14:00 Blackburn Rovers
19-10-19 CH Blackburn Rovers 11:30 Huddersfield Town
22-10-19 CH Birmingham City 18:45 Blackburn Rovers
26-10-19 CH Preston North End 14:00 Blackburn Rovers
Nottingham Forest
All Championship Club Friendlies Carabao Cup FA Cup
All Home Away
31-08-19 CH Nottingham Forest 1 - 1 Preston North End
14-09-19 CH Swansea City 0 - 1 Nottingham Forest
21-09-19 CH Nottingham Forest 1 - 0 Barnsley
24-09-19 CC Arsenal 5 - 0 Nottingham Forest
27-09-19 CH Stoke City 2 - 3 Nottingham Forest
01-10-19 CH Blackburn Rovers 18:45 Nottingham Forest
05-10-19 CH Nottingham Forest 14:00 Brentford
20-10-19 CH Wigan Athletic 13:00 Nottingham Forest
23-10-19 CH Nottingham Forest 18:45 Hull City
26-10-19 CH Nottingham Forest 14:00 Reading

  Total Home Away  
# Team MP W D L F A MP W D L F A MP W D L F A +/- P
1 West Bromwich Albion 9 5 4 0 17 10 4 2 2 0 9 6 5 3 2 0 8 4 7 19
2 Swansea City 9 5 3 1 13 6 5 3 1 1 9 5 4 2 2 0 4 1 7 18
3 Nottingham Forest 9 5 3 1 14 8 4 2 1 1 6 3 5 3 2 0 8 5 6 18
4 Leeds United 9 5 2 2 13 5 4 1 2 1 3 3 5 4 0 1 10 2 8 17
5 Preston North End 9 5 2 2 17 10 5 4 1 0 13 5 4 1 1 2 4 5 7 17
6 Charlton Athletic 9 5 2 2 12 8 5 3 1 1 6 3 4 2 1 1 6 5 4 17
7 Sheffield Wednesday 9 5 1 3 15 8 4 2 1 1 5 3 5 3 0 2 10 5 7 16
8 Bristol City 9 4 4 1 16 12 4 1 2 1 5 5 5 3 2 0 11 7 4 16
9 Queens Park Rangers 9 5 1 3 14 14 5 2 1 2 8 9 4 3 0 1 6 5 0 16
10 Fulham 9 4 3 2 14 7 5 3 1 1 10 3 4 1 2 1 4 4 7 15
11 Blackburn Rovers 9 4 1 4 10 10 5 2 1 2 5 4 4 2 0 2 5 6 0 13
12 Cardiff City 9 3 4 2 11 12 4 3 1 0 6 3 5 0 3 2 5 9 -1 13
13 Birmingham City 9 4 1 4 9 12 4 2 1 1 5 3 5 2 0 3 4 9 -3 13
14 Brentford 9 3 2 4 8 7 4 1 2 1 4 2 5 2 0 3 4 5 1 11
15 Derby County 9 2 5 2 11 13 5 1 3 1 6 6 4 1 2 1 5 7 -2 11
16 Hull City 9 2 4 3 13 13 5 1 2 2 7 9 4 1 2 1 6 4 0 10
17 Luton Town 9 3 1 5 14 17 4 1 1 2 6 9 5 2 0 3 8 8 -3 10
18 Millwall 9 2 4 3 7 12 4 2 1 1 4 3 5 0 3 2 3 9 -5 10
19 Middlesbrough 9 2 3 4 9 13 5 2 1 2 4 6 4 0 2 2 5 7 -4 9
20 Reading 9 2 2 5 10 12 4 1 0 3 5 7 5 1 2 2 5 5 -2 8
21 Wigan Athletic 9 2 2 5 8 15 4 2 1 1 5 4 5 0 1 4 3 11 -7 8
22 Barnsley 9 1 2 6 5 15 5 1 1 3 5 10 4 0 1 3 0 5 -10 5
23 Huddersfield Town 9 0 2 7 8 18 5 0 1 4 3 9 4 0 1 3 5 9 -10 2
24 Stoke City 9 0 2 7 9 20 5 0 1 4 6 12 4 0 1 3 3 8 -11 2

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