Swansea vs Blackburn prediction: ENGLAND: Championship betting tips on match 2024-03-01 15:00.
After a rocky start to his tenure as Swansea boss saw them lose five of his first seven league matches at the helm (W1, D1), Luke Williams will hope a corner has been turned after a morale-boosting 2-1 victory over Sunderland last week. The Swans were freefalling towards the relegation zone before success on Wearside helped open up a four-point gap between themselves and the bottom-three.
If they are to avoid dropping into the third-tier for the first time in 16 years, the next hurdle for Williams to overcome is registering his first success at the Swansea.com Stadium. The Welsh outfit have suffered four successive reversals there for the first time in their history, while their eight home defeats in the Championship this season is already the same amount as the entirety of the 2022/23 campaign.
They might at least be confident of picking up some kind of result against opponents Blackburn, who have won only three of the last 11 H2Hs (D4, L4). Rovers are also in a rut themselves, as despite replacing Jon Dahl Tomasson as manager last month, they remain winless under the tutelage of new boss John Eustace (D4, L1).
The most recent of those games was a thrilling FA Cup tie with Newcastle on Tuesday, with Blackburn eventually defeated on penalties. A gutsy display pleased Eustace, who saw his side make “small steps forward,” and he will be hoping the players can carry such a performance into the league, where they are only above Swansea on goal difference, leaving some supporters fearing a return to League One.
Key battle: Striker Jerry Yates has only lost one of the eight games in which he has scored since joining Swansea last summer (W4, D3). Attempting to thwart him may be Blackburn goalkeeper Aynsley Pears, who has kept only two clean sheets in his last 23 appearances.
Hot stat: 53% of Blackburn’s away league matches this season have seen 4+ goals scored, a high for the division.