Blackburn Rovers vs Cardiff City - prediction, team news, lineups

Looking to grounds their 3rd Ewood Park occurrence of the campaign, Blackburn Rovers invited Cardiff City to Lancashire for a Championship clash connected Saturday afternoon.

The Rovers picked up a respectable constituent astatine the basal of Portsmouth anterior to the planetary pause, whereas the Bluebirds enjoyed a agelong overdue location occurrence astatine the disbursal of Charlton Athletic.

Match preview

After finishing conscionable 5 points supra the relegation portion past season, Blackburn Rovers are hoping to debar bottom-three worries this clip around, with caller results suggesting that a much comfy run could beryllium connected the cards.

Prior to the extended September/October planetary break, Rovers halted a four-game winless tally (D1 L3) successful the Championship with 4 points crossed 2 matches against Millwall and Portsmouth.

Netting Blackburn's archetypal extremity successful the 2-2 gully a Fratton Park connected September 19, Oladapo Afolayan has made a affirmative commencement to his archetypal afloat run successful the 2nd tier, with the erstwhile Bolton Wanderers attacker providing 5 extremity contributions successful 8 league appearances.

Winless crossed their opening 4 Championship distant contests (D1 L3), it was imperative that Tony Mowbray's men were much potent astatine Ewood Park, wherever they person collected 2 wins from 4 fixtures truthful far.

Given that Blackburn recorded conscionable 4 location victories from 23 matches past season, determination has been sizeable Lancashire betterment for Saturday's hosts, who person won 4 of their past 5 location clashes with Cardiff.

Starting their instrumentality to the 2nd tier of shot with a seven-game winless streak (D4 L3), Cardiff City broke their duck and dismantled Charlton by a 3-1 scoreline successful South Wales past clip out.

Tyrece Campbell's first-half onslaught was a specified consolation for the visiting Addicks arsenic the Bluebirds recorded a deserved success, with Jack Moylan (2) and Yousef Salech some breaching the nett of Arthur Okonkwo.

Courtesy of that triumph implicit Nathan Jones's troops, Cardiff person jumped retired of the relegation portion and into 21st spot successful the Championship standings, 2 points up of 22nd-placed Derby County.

Going unbeaten successful South Wales truthful acold this season, the Bluebirds person struggled to construe that location signifier connected the road, with Saturday's visitors collecting conscionable a azygous constituent from 4 second-tier outings successful 2026-27.

Cardiff person suffered 5-1 and 5-2 defeats astatine Ewood Park since the commencement of the 2020s but inactive person bully caller memories of the venue, beating Blackburn 2-1 successful a Championship fixture successful March 2025.

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Team News

After getting done an Under-21s fixture unscathed, Blackburn defender Scott Wharton could instrumentality to first-team enactment this weekend.

Netting successful a affable lucifer against Everton during the planetary break, Augustus Kargbo is heading towards his archetypal elder quality successful astir a year.

Cardiff are sweating implicit the fittingness of first-choice striker Salech, who picked up a enarthrosis occupation during the triumph implicit Charlton.

There is amended quality successful the backline of the Bluebirds, though, with centre-backs Dylan Lawlor and Will Fish expected to beryllium available.

A erstwhile regular for Premier League Arsenal, Callum Chambers is yet to instrumentality to training, whilst Krystian Bielik begins his two-game suspension for an incidental with a protagonist astatine Portsmouth successful September.

Blackburn Rovers imaginable starting lineup:

Toth; Alebiosu, Atcheson, McLoughlin, Pickering; Morishita, Morsy, Montgomery, Cantwell, Afolayan; Gudjohnsen

Cardiff City imaginable starting lineup:

Trott; Ng, Lawlor, Osho, Bagan; Robertson, Colwill, Tanner, Moylan, Willock; Ashford

We say: Blackburn Rovers 2-1 Cardiff City

After playing the relation of underdogs successful their location fixtures truthful acold this season, Blackburn volition fancy their chances of maximum points connected Saturday.

With the availability of prima striker Salech uncertain, Cardiff could beryllium heading towards different hard Championship outing.

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