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Blackburn vs Wigan Bet Builder Tips: 2.60 Builder for Monday’s Championship Clash

Jack Wright

Blackburn vs Wigan Bet Builder Tips: Monday, February 6th

Monday night football takes us into the Championship and I am here to provide Blackburn vs Wigan bet builder tips. There are implications at both ends of the table in this North West clash. Can Blackburn improve their hopes of a surprise promotion? Will Wigan claim three points to breathe life into their relegation battle? All will be revealed.

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Blackburn vs Wigan Preview
Blackburn vs Wigan Stats & Facts
Blackburn vs Wigan Bet Builder

Blackburn vs Wigan Preview

England, Championship, Monday, February 6th, 20:00 (UK)

Blackburn were in midweek action as they booked a trip to Leicester City for a fifth round FA Cup tie. Rovers needed extra time and a 100th-minute Auston Trusty own goal to finally edge past a stubborn Birmingham side. Winning the hastily arranged replay following a 2-2 draw in the original fixture just three days previously.

Jon Dahl Tomasson made five changes between his two lineups. With six days’ recovery time leading up to this clash, we shouldn’t see any negative impacts of fatigue in the home side. Completing the weekend fixtures means it is impossible to predict where Blackburn will be at kick-off at Ewood park. They enter the weekend in 6th just two points off 3rd place but only three clear of Preston in 11th. What is obvious is a win will keep them in the play-offs regardless of outcomes elsewhere.

Wigan on the other hand know exactly where their position in the table will be. The Championship’s bottom side have won just one of their last 17 games in all competitions. Losing 12 of those. A run which has seen the Latics sack two managers. Kolo Toure was the latest to be relieved of his duties following a cup exit and league loss to Luton in the space of four days. The Ivorian failed to register a win in any of his nine games in charge. Fan favourite Shaun Maloney is the new man tasked with engineering the great escape.

Blackburn vs Wigan Stats & Facts

Having not drawn any of their first 32 fixtures this season, Blackburn have now been level after 90 minutes in their last three.
Blackburn have kept a first-half clean sheet in ten of their 13 home league games this season.
No side has conceded more than Wigan’s 49 goals in the English second tier this season.
Ten years ago Wigan completed a remarkable double. Winning the Premier League and being relegated in the same season.

Blackburn vs Wigan Bet Builder

Blackburn had a mixed January transfer window. Snapping up set piece supremo Sorba Thomas on loan from Huddersfield was an excellent piece of business. As would have been the addition of Thomas’ former teammate Lewis O’Brien. That move collapsed due to an EFL technicality.

However, Rovers have kept the services of in-demand Ben Brereton Diaz. The Chile international is once again his club’s top scorer with nine goals to his name. Following up his haul of 22 goals in 37 appearances last term. Speculation suggests he will be off to Villarreal in the summer. But for now he can fire the Ewood Park outfit into the play-offs.

Bradley Dack’s return to goalscoring form is also a huge boost. Finding the net in four of his 10 appearances since the World Cup. Only the runaway top two Burnley and Sheffield United have accrued more home points than Blackburn. With only the Clarets winning more than their nine fixtures on home turf. They can’t wish for better opponents to further improve those statistics. Maloney admitted “a massive amount of work needs to be done”.

Sides battling for promotion and relegation, a new manager in the visitors’ dugout, and a local rivalry played out in front of the live TV cameras. All the ingredients needed to see a few cards shown. Blackburn home games have seen at least three cards flourish in nine of their 13 league games at Ewood and in six of the last seven.

Wigan have seen the referee go into his pocket at least three times in 12 of their 13 away games. Matt Donahue is the man in the middle for this clash. He has taken one Blackburn game this season, showing five yellow cards in their trip to Blackpool in August. The Manchester-based referee has officiated three Wigan games already this campaign. Showing four yellow cards in both their visit to Norwich in August and against Watford at the DW in October. Most recently cautioning four Tics players and one from Luton in the FA Cup replay last month.