Blackburn Rovers vs Stoke City Prediction: Stoke to win a thrilling contest

Blackburn is going head-to-head with Stoke City at Ewood Park on Sunday. Blackburn is currently at 4th position with 9 points after securing 3 wins in 5 games. Whereas Stoke City is at 21st position with 4 points after winning 1 out of 5 games. It's always an exciting experience to watch a clash between these teams. 

Blackburn Rovers Form

After a positive start to the season, Blackburn lost 2 back-to-back games against Sheff Utd and Reading respectively. Blackburn win 3 games in a row against QPR (1-0), Swansea (3-0), and West Brom (2-1) but lost their momentum.

Rovers are goalless from the last 2 games as Sheff Utd, and Reading beat them by the same margin of 3-0. They did 6 goals so far in the tournament and conceded 7 in return. Ben Brereton and Lewis Travis are the top scorers of the team. Both have scored 2-2 goals in 5 games.

 Despite the loss, playing against the two big sides of the league will boost their confidence to win in the upcoming games.

Blackburn Rovers possible starting lineup:

Kaminski; Ayala, Phillips, Pickering; Edun, Travis, Buckley, Brittain; Brereton, Szmodics; Gallagher.

Stoke City Form

Despite starting its campaign with a win against Blackpool (2-0), Stoke City lost its momentum. They lost their last game against Sunderland by (1-0). Stoke should have won that game but unfortunately couldn’t.

They played a draw against Middlesbrough (2-2) which was unfortunate. Phil Jagielka's own goal turned a winning game into a draw. Stoke did 5 goals so far in the tournament and conceded 8 in returns. Jacob Brown is the top scorer for the team, who has scored 2 goals in 5 games.

In the game against Huddersfield, they took the most shots but were not able to convert them into goals. Stoke City lost that game by (3-1).

Stoke is giving good competition to its opponents. They always start well but are not able to convert it into their favor.

Stoke City’s possible starting lineup

Bursik; Taylor, Jagielka, Wilmot; Fosu, Kikenny, Baker, Smalbone, Thompson; Brown, Delap.

Blackburn vs Stoke expert tips

This is going to be an exciting contest as Stoke has the upper hand over Blackburn. In the last 5 matches between them, Stoke City has won on two occasions. Stoke City beat Rovers at their home in the last game by 1-0. With good recent from, we are favouring Stoke City to win this game. We expect under 2.5 goals in this game.