Blackburn vs Southampton Betting Tips & Match Predictions

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Blackburn vs Southampton Intro

One of the best performing Championship teams head to the Ewood Park as Southampton travel to face Blackburn. Southampton have enjoyed a fantastic campaign and sit happily in the top positions of the table. The home side have struggled in great parts of the season, and will be looking to finish their campaign on a high. Kick off is on Saturday April 6, 2024 at 2:00 PM. We head into matchweek 41 as the hosts, led by John Eustace, currently sit in the 17th position in the Championship table on 45 points. Their opponents are 4th, having taken 74 points from their 40 games. We’re deep inside the second half of the season, and there’s a massive difference in fortunes between Blackburn and Southampton in the Championship table. The two teams are divided by 29 points and 13 places.

Blackburn vs Southampton Form

Blackburn’s form have not been that good in the last five games. They have only picked up 6 points and beaten Sunderland. In the meantime, Southampton have struggled a little in the last few games, and losing to Ipswich hasn’t brought in any new points, keeping the team at eight in the five rounds. Blackburn should start exploiting their home team advantage as soon as possible, since they gathered only six points from last five home games in Championship. Southampton can be very happy with their away form, managing to pick up nine points in five games away from home.

Blackburn vs Southampton H2H

Blackburn and Southampton have played only a few times, a total of 9 meetings. The hosts for this upcoming match Blackburn have won 4 of those 9 meetings, with the visitors Southampton winning 3 times. The teams have drawn on 2 occasions.

Blackburn vs Southampton Analysis

Blackburn won their last match. John Eustace’s men played against Sunderland. At the final wistle, the scoring board showed 5-1. Now it is time for John Eustace’s men to face Southampton. While facing Sunderland, Blackburn had 45% of ball possession. Looking at shots on goal, Blackburn, in its previous game, shot 10 times on target and in the same game, John Eustace’s men gave up 10 shots. Meanwhile, Southampton took zero points in losing their last match. In that match, Russell Martin’s men faced Ipswich. After 90 minutes, the score was 2-3. While facing Ipswich, Southampton had 65% of ball possession. Often punters look to shots on goal as a true guide of how a team performed. For Southampton, a total of 14 shots were taken in attack with 10 shots conceded in the last game.