Blackburn Rovers vs Bradford City Prediction, Betting Tips and Preview
Blackburn Rovers take on Bradford City in League One action this Thursday. Read the match predictions to find out why a Blackburn Rovers win is the betting tip at Ewood Park.
Blackburn Rovers v Bradford City TIPS
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Blackburn Rovers vs Bradford City Preview
Blackburn Rovers are looking for a place in the automatic promotion places, and are currently sitting just outside the top 2. Wigan and Shrewsbury are the sides that Rovers need to catch, and the chase is made all the more interesting by the fact that each team have played a different number of games.
Corry Evans is on international duty with Northern Ireland and will therefore likely not be available for this contest. Back up goalkeeper Jayson Leutwiler has also been on international duty. The main injury worry for Rovers is that Ryan Nyambe was injured in the game against Blackpool, with Amari ‘i Bell likely to come in.
Bradford City managed to end a horrendous run of form with a 1-0 victory at home to Gillingham on Saturday. That was the first win for new manager Simon Grayson, who will hope it was the turning point of their season.
The starting 11 for Bradford City is likely to look something similar to the line up they put out in the 1-0 win against Gillingham. The strike force of McCartan and Poleon will be relied on to score the goals needed to get a result.
Blackburn Rovers vs Bradford City Betting Tips
- Blackburn Rovers have won 6 drawn 3 and lost 1 of their last 10 matches
- Bradford City have won 1 drawn 2 and lost 7 of their last 10 matches
- Over the course of their previous 10 matches, Blackburn Rovers have scored an average of 2 goals and conceded an average of 1 goal per game
- Over the course of their previous 10 matches, Bradford City have scored an average of 0.6 goals and conceded an average of 1.8 goals per game
- There have been over 2.5 goals scored in 7 of Blackburn Rovers’s previous 10 matches
- There have been over 2.5 goals scored in 4 of Bradford City’s previous 10 matches
Blackburn Rovers vs Bradford City Prediction
Blackburn Rovers certainly go into this match as huge favourites, and are on a very good run of form themselves. They have only lost once in their last 10 matches, which came away at Plymouth back in early February. They swept Blackpool aside with an easy 3-0 win at Ewood Park in their last game.
Bradford City will have been massively relieved to get a win on Saturday against Gillingham, with Dominic Poleon grabbing the winner. The result has left The Bantams in 10th place in League One, 4 points off the last play off place.
Blackburn are undefeated in their last 16 home matches in League One so it will be very tough for Bradford to take the three points away here. Blackburn have also scored at least 2 goals in 12 of their last 13 home matches in League One, so they’ll hope to do that again.
The tip is for Blackburn to win, and the both teams to score tip’s for no, as we expect Rovers to win to nil.
Team Lineups
Blackburn | Bradford |
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Goalkeeper | |
David Raya |
Colin Doyle |
Defenders | |
Elliott Bennett Darragh Lenihan Derrick Williams Amari'i Bell |
Romain Vincelot Nathanial Knight-Percival Matthew Kilgallon |
Midfielders | |
Richard Smallwood Corry Evans Bradley Dack Adam Armstrong |
Alex Gilliead Callum Guy Anthony McMahon Nicholas Law Stephen Warnock |
Forwards | |
Dominic Samuel Marcus Antonsson |
Dominic Poleon Charlie Wyke |
Substitutes | |
Coach | |
RECENT Head To Head
English League 1
Head to Head Statistics
Last1 matches
Blackburn | Bradford |
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Wins | |
1 | 0 |
Corners | |
0 | 0 |
Fouls | |
0 | 0 |
Shots | |
0 | 0 |
Shots on Target | |
0 | 0 |
Yellow Cards | |
0 | 0 |
Red Cards | |
0 | 0 |
These two sides are not used to playing each other recently, only meeting once in competitive action in the last few years. There was a friendly back in 2014, but nothing of note really happened in a 0-0 draw.
In the meeting between Blackburn and Bradford earlier this season it was Rovers that came away with a narrow victory, as Dominic Samuel got the winner in a 1-0 success at Valley Parade.
LiveBlackburn vBradford Updates
5' | Nathanial Knight-Percival | |
out Darragh Lenihan in Paul Downing | 30' |
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64' | out Dominic Poleon in Omari Patrick | |
64' | out Alex Gilliead in Shay McCartan | |
out Dominic Samuel in Jack Payne | 65' |
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68' |
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72' | out Callum Guy in Timothee Dieng | |
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