Blackburn vs Derby County prediction and betting tips on August 9, 2024
Game Prediction
Blackburn and Derby County will play in the 1st round of the English Championship on August 9, 2024. The hosts will try to squeeze out the maximum, hosting a team that has returned to the division.
Blackburn vs Derby County: key statistics and trends
- Blackburn has not won 4 times in a row.
- Derby County has lost 3 times in 4 previous matches.
- The most common result in the games between the clubs on the field of Blackburn is a 1-0 score in favour of the hosts (3 times).
- Derby County’s last away win over Blackburn was in 2014.
- Blackburn has scored at least once in 6 previous confrontations.
- Rovers wins the first half in 23% of matches, Derby County does the same in 41% of meetings.
Blackburn – the shape of the team and its analysis:
“The Rovers” showed serious regression last season. The team had improved for a couple of years, up to the finish in 5th position, before and then almost flew out, and only because of the victory over Leicester in the last round, the club managed to finish in 19th place. And what would have happened if “the Foxes” went out to the match with motivation, and not already celebrating the promotion to the Premier League?
Eustace’s wards had received practically no reinforcements before the new season, but there were no noticeable losses either. It is even strange that a well-coordinated team, having started the training camp with victories, then played worse and worse in the summer.
Derby County – the shape of the team and its analysis:
“The Rams” went through an unpleasant period of history with financial problems, administration, a transfer ban, deprivation of points, and, as expected, there happened the relegation to the League One. Still, then Warne became the manager – the club almost won the right to fight for a return at the first attempt (it finished in 7th place, outside the play-off zone). Speaking about the previous spring, the team managed to secure 2nd place, which ensured direct promotion.
There had been attempts to strengthen the squad before the start at the new level. Still, it remembers how recklessness in finance can hit, so the newcomers are very modest, and all came without compensation, as free agents.
Blackburn: team news
No personnel losses.
Derby County: team news
Everyone is ready to play.
Blackburn vs Derby County: possible starting line-ups
Blackburn (possible line-up): Pears – Pickering, McFadzean, Carter – Chrisene, Szmodics, Rankin-Costello, Tronstad, Brittain – Dolan, Gallagher.
Derby County (possible line-up): Wildsmith – Cashin, Bradley, Nelson – Sibley, Bird, Adams, Smith, Wilson – Mendez-Laing, Collins.
Previous head-to-head matches: Blackburn vs Derby County
“The Rovers” have won all 4 out of their previous matches.
Free prediction for the match Blackburn vs Derby County
The cards are still in favour of “the Rovers”. We bet on their victory (odd: 2.2).