Blackburn vs Leicester City Betting Odds, Tips, Predictions, Preview 1st October 2023

The Championship clash at Ewood Park on Sunday sees home team Blackburn battling it out for the win against Leicester City.

Blackburn are 14 in the rankings with ten points after eight matches played , whereas Leicester City rank one in the Championship on 21 points.

Although Blackburn trail after Leicester City by double digits, beating the league leaders in the Championship still holds a lot of prestige.

Blackburn average 1.7 goals per game in their last ten games, scoring 17 times. They conceded 20 goals or an average of two per game, with one clean sheet along the way.

Leicester City scored 17 times in their previous ten matches, an average of 1.7 per game. They also conceded five goals for an average of 0.5 a game, pulling off five clean sheets in these.

Neither Blackburn nor Leicester City managed a breakthrough, when they last faced each other. They ended up settling for a point in a 1-1 draw, and the best betting odds on a draw at full-time with the bookies are at 13/5.

Blackburn vs Leicester City Prediction

Blackburn Form

Blackburn lost twice in their last three matches, as they were defeated 1-3 by Sunderland and 4-3 against Ipswich. They turned the table by winning 5-2 against Cardiff. Blackburn managed to win two of their past six home matches in the Championship. In the remaining four, they drew one and lost three, as they scored seven and conceded nine goals.

Leicester City Form

Leicester City won twice in their last three matches as Norwich were defeated by 0-2, before they beat Bristol City 1-0. Liverpool proved too strong, though, and a 3-1 defeat followed. Leicester City are in imperial form on their travels, doing the clean sweep of six wins in six Championship matches. It marks them out as the best away side in this competition across the last six games. They outscored their opponents by 12 goals to two along the way.

This particular encounter between Blackburn and Leicester City looks a little trickier for the favourites, than prices with the bookmakers suggest. All things considered, though, we still believe, the visitors have enough about them to pull off a win on Sunday.

Blackburn fought their way to zero wins and zero points from their last three games against teams inside the top six. They were on target five times in these matches, but also let in nine goals. Blackburn enjoy a record of three wins, one draw and four defeats in the Championship this season. Leicester City are looking at seven wins, zero draws and one defeat in the Championship.

Blackburn vs Leicester City Squads

Blackburn Squad

Tomasson will select the starting XI for the upcoming match against Leicester City from the following players (the statistics in the brackets represent goals scored and matches played in the Championship this season):

Aynsley Pears (0/8), Joe Hilton (0/0), Leopold Wahlstedt (0/0), Andrew Moran (0/5), Callum Brittain (0/8), Dominic Hyam (0/8), Harry Pickering (0/7), Hayden Carter (0/8), Jake Garrett (0/3), James Hill (0/0), Lewis Travis (0/8), Patrick Gamble (0/0), Scott Wharton (0/2), Adam Wharton (0/8), Arnor Sigurdsson (1/1), Harry Leonard (2/8), Joe Rankin-Costello (0/7), Sammie Szmodics (5/8), Sondre Tronstad (0/1), Tyrhys Dolan (0/8), Dilan Markanday (1/4), Niall Ennis (0/2), Ryan Hedges (1/8), Sam Gallagher (1/5), Semir Telalovic (0/3).

Leicester City Squad

This is the full squad of players that the Leicester City head coach Maresca will select from for his starting XI:

Alex Smithies (0/0), Daniel Iversen (0/0), Danny Ward (0/0), Mads Hermansen (0/7), Callum Doyle (0/8), Conor Coady (0/0), Harry Souttar (0/0), James Justin (0/4), Jannik Vestergaard (0/8), Ricardo Pereira (0/7), Wout Faes (0/7), Cesare Casadei (1/6), Dennis Praet (0/2), Hamza Choudhury (0/5), Harry Winks (0/8), Kasey McAteer (4/6), Kiernan Dewsbury-Hall (2/8), Marc Albrighton (0/2), Wanya Marcal-Madivadua (1/2), Wilfred Ndidi (1/8), Abdul Issahaku (0/0), Jamie Vardy (2/8), Kelechi Iheanacho (1/8), Patson Daka (0/0), Stephy Mavididi (2/8), Thomas Cannon (0/0), Yunus Akgun (0/3).

Blackburn vs Leicester City Team News

At the time of writing, it looks as if only two players are unavailable for Blackburn, when they prepare for their upcoming assignment.

Sam Gallagher and Niall Ennis are all absent from the Blackburn squad that faces Leicester City at Ewood Park.

It seems that Leicester City are limited to just two players being absent or injured as they prepare for their match on Sunday.

Leicester City need to do without Thomas Cannon and Dennis Praet, who are not fit enough to travel to Ewood Park.

Blackburn vs Leicester City Lineups

Blackburn vs Leicester City H2H

Blackburn and Leicester City had to make do with a point each in their latest encounter, which finished with a 1-1 scoreline. The best betting odds on a draw at full-time with the bookies are at 13/5. Blackburn have a 25% win rate in the against Leicester City, who won two of these matches. The total record reads 1-1-2, which is worth keeping in mind before you make a choice for your next accumulator, depending on your betting strategy.

Blackburn vs Leicester City Results

The scenario of both teams to score came out three times in the last four matches between Blackburn and Leicester City.

Blackburn vs Leicester City Betting Tips

Sammie Szmodics look like value in the goal scoring market with three strikes to his name in six Championship matches. The visitors are crossing their fingers Kasey McAteer adds to his four Championship goals come this coming Sunday.

Blackburn claimed all three points four times in their last 10 home matches across all tournaments, while also drawing two along the way. They endured defeat in four of the games in this run. Leicester City won seven of their last 10 games away, while drawing one and losing two in this series of matches. Blackburn failed in keeping a single clean sheet in the last 10 outings at Ewood Park, while Leicester City managed six clean sheets in their 10 most recent outings away from home.

Over 2.5 goals came out three times in the last four encounters between these two teams. Blackburn managed an average of one goal, with Leicester City averaging 1.75 goals in these games. Both teams to score was a winning bet three times in this run of matches. Over 2.5 goals came out nine times in the previous ten matches across all tournaments for Blackburn, who scored an average of 2.7 goals along the way. Over 2.5 goals came up in four of Leicester City's previous ten matches across all tournaments. They managed to score an average of 1.7 goals in these matches.