📊 Form Guide

Stoke City

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Stoke City will be hoping to bounce back here following a 2-0 Championship losing effort in their last game against Derby County.

In that game, Stoke City had 48% possession and 7 attempts at goal with 0 on target. On the other side, Derby County had 20 attempts at goal with 3 on target. Jaydon Banel (54') and Carlton Morris (89') scored for Derby County.

Fixtures with Stoke City have tended to be exciting ones recently with high scoring being the norm. Over their past six clashes, a total of 20 goals have gone in for both sides combined (at an average of 3.33 goals per game) with 9 of these coming from Stoke City.

Their past results show that Stoke City:

• haven't lost in the league to Blackburn Rovers in their last 3 matches.
• are unbeaten in their previous 5 league matches at home.

Blackburn Rovers

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In the game prior to this, Blackburn Rovers drew 0-0 in the Championship match with West Bromwich Albion.

In that game, Blackburn Rovers managed 44% possession and 11 shots at goal with 0 of them on target. At the other end, West Bromwich Albion got 6 attempts at goal with 3 of them on target.

For 5 of the past 6 clashes involving Blackburn Rovers, a comparatively low number of goals have been hit between them and their opposition. The overall average goals scored per game during that period is a paltry 1.17, with the average goals for Rovers standing at 0.67. It will be interesting to see if that trend will be continued on into this next match.

Going into this contest, Blackburn Rovers haven't been defeated in their previous 2 away league matches.

👥 Head to head

Inspecting their past head to head clashes dating back to 10/03/2023 tells us that Stoke City have won 3 of these and Blackburn Rovers 2, with the number of drawn results standing at 1.

A combined sum of 17 goals were produced between them in these games, with 8 of them from The Potters and 9 created by Rovers. That’s an average goals per game figure of 2.83.

The previous league clash between these clubs was Championship match day 9 on 04/10/2025 which ended up with the score at Blackburn Rovers 1-1 Stoke City.

On that occasion, Blackburn Rovers had 47% possession and 16 attempts on goal with 5 of them on target. Their only player to score was Augustus Kargbo (82').

At the other end, Stoke City got 10 shots on goal with 5 of them on target. Million Manhoef (49') was the scorer.

The match was refereed by Ruebyn Ricardo.

📋 Team News: Stoke City

We think that The Potters will probably go for a 3-4-2-1 formation for this game, beginning the first half with Gavin Bazunu, Bosun Lawal, Ashley Phillips, Aaron Cresswell, Sorba Thomas, Steven Nzonzi, Tatsuki Seko, Eric Junior Bocat, Million Manhoef, Jesurun Rak-Sakyi and Lamine Cissé.

🗞️ Team News: Blackburn Rovers

There’s a good chance that Rovers seem most likely to make use of a 3-4-2-1 formation, starting Balázs Tóth, Sean McLoughlin, T. Gardner-Hickman, Tom Atcheson, Ryan Alebiosu, Adam Forshaw, Moussa Baradji, Harry Pickering, Ryoya Morishita, Todd Cantwell and Yuki Ohashi.

💭 Prediction

We’re thinking that Blackburn Rovers and Stoke City may well find themselves both scoring in what promises to be a very even battle here.

We’ll see, but this looks like it could end up all-square. Therefore, we predict a very close game with a 1-1 score draw at the end of the match.

Victor Martins, 13:02 11/04/2026