Burnley vs Blackburn Rovers Prediction: Burnley favourites for this one

Burnley is ready to welcome Blackburn on Saturday evening. This will be their first meeting since the 2015-16 campaign. Both teams will try their best to win the match. 

Burnley is unbeaten at home so far this season as they managed (W6 D4) to win on six occasions out of ten. They won their last two home games in a row against Rotherham (3-2) and Reading (2-1). In their ten home league games, Burnley scored 20 goals against their visitors and conceded 10 in return.

Their away performance is also decent as they managed (W4 D4 L2) to win on four occasions out of ten. With 38 points in 20 games, Burnley is sitting in the 1st position. They have netted 37 goals this season and conceded 23 in return.

Jay Rodriguez is the team’s top scorer with 9 goals followed by Manuel Benson (6) and Nathan Tella (6) respectively 2nd and 3rd positions.  

Muric; Vitinho, Harwood-Bellis, Beyer, Maatsen; Cork, Cullen; Benson, Bastien, Zaroury; Tella. 

Blackburn's away performance is poor this season as they managed (L6 W4) to win on four occasions out of ten. They lost their last away game against Coventry (0-1). Earlier they won their two away games in a row against Hull (1-0) and Middlesbrough (2-1). In their ten away league games, Blackburn scored 4 goals against their hosts and conceded 12 in return.

Blackburn looks in good touch at home this season (W8 L2) as they managed to win on eight occasions out of ten. With 36 points in 20 games, Blackburn is sitting in the 2nd position. They have netted 24 goals this season and conceded 19 in return.

Ben Brereton is the team’s top scorer with 9 goals followed by Sam Gallagher (4) and Sammie Szmodics (3) respectively 2nd and 3rd positions.  

Kaminski; Brittain, Hyam, Ayala, Pickering; Morton, Travis; Hedges, Szmodics, Brereton; Gallagher.

Inform Burnley would like to take advantage of Blackburn’s poor away form in the upcoming fixture. Blackburn is struggling to win away this season. Despite the long gap between them we are anticipating Burnley to win the game. In this match, we can expect less than 2.5 goals as both teams have scored less than 3 goals in a face-off.