Sheffield United vs Blackburn Rovers - prediction, team news, lineups

With a accidental to determination wrong touching region of guaranteeing their Championship safety, Blackburn Rovers volition question to Bramall Lane to instrumentality connected Sheffield United connected Wednesday.

With 2 games near to play, the visitors beryllium 5 points supra 22nd spot successful the Championship table, who person 3 games remaining, portion their hosts person climbed into the apical fractional with consecutive wins.

Match preview

Sheffield United instrumentality to Bramall Lane connected Wednesday aiming to transportation a winning streak towards the extremity of the Championship play and fortify their top-half standing.

In what has been a disappointing campaign, aft past season's playoff-final loss, the South Yorkshire broadside were near good successful the bottommost fractional of England's 2nd tier connected 51 points from 41 games by a six-game winless tally that ended their hopes of charging into the playoff combat successful the run-in.

Chris Wilder's men have, astatine least, seemingly turned a country heading into the last games of the word though, returning to enactment successful midweek connected the backmost of consecutive triumphs, firstly ending that winless streak by beating playoff-chasing Hull City 2-1 acknowledgment to goals from Gustavo Hamer and Danny Ings successful the last 5 minutes.

A travel to Watford past followed connected Saturday, and the Blades made it consecutive three-point hauls for the archetypal clip since mid-February, arsenic Patrick Bamford scored some goals successful a 2-0 victory aboriginal successful the 2nd half.

Now sitting 12th, but lone starring 4 sides connected extremity quality and trailing 10th spot by conscionable a azygous point, Sheffield United tin majorly amended their Championship finishing presumption with a beardown tally to extremity the term, opening with a 3rd consecutive triumph connected Wednesday.

Their visitors, meanwhile, marque the travel to South Yorkshire with the accidental to unafraid their Championship presumption for adjacent play successful what has been a pugnacious campaign.

Michael O'Neill took complaint of Blackburn Rovers successful mid-February, inheriting a broadside successful the combat for endurance connected 27 points from 30 outings, and helium oversaw a much-improved tally successful the aboriginal months, arsenic they ended the Easter Weekend with 47 points connected the committee from 31 matches.

That culminated successful a four-game unbeaten streak including 2 victories, taking them to 4 successful O'Neill's archetypal 9 games astatine the helm, but they person failed to footwear connected and determination retired of scope of the driblet portion since, going connected to play retired different creditable gully distant astatine Stoke City earlier suffering a 3-0 beating astatine the hands of Southampton.

A pugnacious trial astatine location to Coventry City followed connected Friday, with the visitors needing a constituent to warrant promotion, and aft starring done Ryoya Morishita's opener aboriginal successful the 2nd half, they had to settee for a stock of the spoils successful a 1-1 gully arsenic Bobby Thomas levelled six minutes from time.

Now sitting connected 49 points with 2 games remaining, 5 points up of 22nd-placed Oxford United who person 3 near to play, Blackburn Rovers whitethorn person already done capable to support themselves successful the Championship this word but volition consciousness a triumph astatine Bramall Lane connected Wednesday would surely get them implicit the line.

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Team News

Sheffield United stay without goalkeeper Michael Cooper, defender Sam McCallum, midfielder Kalvin Phillips and attacker Tyrese Campbell owed to ongoing wounded issues.

Adam Davies volition proceed to deputise betwixt the sticks successful Cooper's absence, portion Mark McGuinness has joined skipper Japhet Tanganga astatine the bosom of the defence successful caller weeks.

Joe Rothwell and Jairo Riedewald volition anticipation to proceed their midfield concern from the weekend, contempt contention from Sydie Peck, portion Bamford is bound to pb the enactment again aft netting his 10th and 11th league goals of the play past clip out.

Blackburn Rovers proceed to look a agelong wounded list, with Hayden Carter, Axel Henriksson, Lewis Miller, Sondre Tronstad, Augustus Kargbo, Todd Cantwell and Andri Gudjohnsen each sidelined.

They should tract a akin starting XI from Friday's gully against Coventry, with Morishita, Yuki Ohashi and Moussa Baradji hoping to proceed successful onslaught contempt contention from Ryan Hedges, Nathan Redmond and Mathias Jorgensen.

Kristi Montgomery volition again anticipation to articulation Taylor Gardner-Hickman successful the motor room, portion 19-year-old 19-year-old Tom Atcheson volition proceed to get the motion successful a backmost 3 alongside Sean McLoughlin and Eiran Cashin.

Sheffield United imaginable starting lineup:

Davies; Seriki, Tanganga, McGuinness, Burrows; Riedewald, Peck; Cannon, O'Hare, Hamer; Bamford

Blackburn Rovers imaginable starting lineup:

Toth; Atcheson, McLoughlin, Cashin; Alebiosu, Montgomery, Gardner-Hickman, Ribeiro; Morishita, Ohashi, Hedges

We say: Sheffield United 2-1 Blackburn Rovers

Finally opening to drawstring immoderate results unneurotic with constricted unit fixed their guaranteed mid-table finish, we backmost Sheffield United to proceed their winning streak connected Wednesday against a depleted Blackburn side.

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