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Blackburn Rovers v Preston North End : Championship match betting preview, prediction and odds

Ewood Park (Blackburn, Lancashire),

John Eustace and Paul Heckingbottom clash in the Championship on Friday night, as Blackburn Rovers face Preston North End at the Ewood Park (Blackburn, Lancashire). We've got bespoke statistics for all of the main betting markets, from team to score first to full time result, including form and historical head-to-head data. Predictions are calculated from these, and the odds come directly from the UK's biggest bookmakers.

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Blackburn Rovers's next match is v Wolves at 12:30 on Sunday 9th February
Preston North End's next match is v Wycombe at 15:00 on Saturday 8th February

The last English Championship meeting between Blackburn and Preston was on Friday 31st January 2025

English Championship

January 31st 2025

Blackburn 2	1 Preston

M. Gueye 39'	90' B. Potts
T. Cantwell 78'

	BLB PNE
Shots On	2 2
Shots Off	5 6
Corners	7 3
Possession	40% 60%
Fouls	13 6
Yellow/red cards	1/0 1/0

Blackburn	Preston

A. Pears O. Beck D. Hyam D. Batth C. Brittain L. Travis (J. Rankin-Costello 82') R. Hedges (A. Forshaw 90') J. Buckley T. Dolan (D. Sanderson 90') A. Weimann (T. Cantwell 68') M. Gueye	F. Woodman K. Kessler L. Gibson (B. Potts 63') J. Meghoma (J. Whatmough 30') J. Storey A. Hughes (D. Holmes 79') M. Frøkjær-Jensen A. McCann (S. Þórðarson 63') R. Ledson (C. Evans 79') S. Greenwood E. Riis Jakobsen

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Best Tip: Under 2.5 goals

It's not the news we want to be reporting, but we don't predict a high-scoring affair here. The stats suggest Blackburn and Preston both are capable of keeping it tight at the back, and the odds are leaning towards there being fewer than 2 goals in total as they go head-to-head. We think they're probably right and, in the absence of obvious outright winners to back, under 2.5 goals looks like a smart bet.

If you’re looking for a winner in this match, we think Blackburn are the most likely. Our predictive algorithm gives them a 38% chance of victory, and the bookies have them at a best price of 2.10.

Checkout the hundreds of tips picked but our top win/draw/win tipsters

Predictions	Bet365	Coral
Blackburn 38%	11/10	23/20 5%
Draw 29%	21/10 3%	21/10 6%
Preston 32%	14/5 6%	13/5 3%
Draw 1-1 13%	5/1	5/1
Blackburn 1-0 13%	5/1 8%	19/4 4%
Preston 1-0 12%	8/1 10%	13/2 12%
Draw 0-0 11%	6/1 13%	11/2 7%
Blackburn 2-1 8%	17/2 6%	15/2 6%
Blackburn 2-0 8%	8/1	15/2
Preston 2-1 7%	12/1	10/1
Preston 2-0 6%	16/1 11%	14/1
Draw 2-2 4%	16/1 13%	14/1 15%
Blackburn 3-1 3%	20/1 11%	16/1 13%
Blackburn 3-0 3%	18/1	14/1
Preston 3-1 2%	33/1	25/1 13%
Preston 3-0 2%	40/1	28/1
Blackburn 3-2 2%	33/1 17%	25/1 13%
Preston 3-2 1%	40/1	33/1 17%
Over 2.5 Goals 37%	13/8 19%	7/5 9%
Under 2.5 Goals 63%	1/2 10%	8/15 6%
Home 1st Goal 48%	8/11 4%	-
Away 1st Goal 45%	13/8 1%	-
No 1st Goal 8%	11/2 19%	-
BTTS - Yes 44%	11/10 10%	11/10 8%
BTTS - No 56%	4/6 7%	4/6 5%
BTTS - Home Win 14%	9/2 16%	4/1 11%
BTTS - Draw 18%	15/4 6%	18/5
BTTS - Away Win 12%	8/1 13%	13/2 7%
Home/draw 68%	1/4 3%	2/7
Away/draw 62%	7/10	4/6 3%
Home/away 71%	4/11	7/20 2%
Over 1.5 Goals 64%	1/2 10%	10/21 6%
Under 1.5 Goals 36%	13/8 18%	6/4 11%
Over 3.5 Goals 18%	4/1 25%	7/2 15%
Under 3.5 Goals 83%	1/6 6%	2/11 3%
Over 4.5 Goals 7%	10/1 38%	8/1 13%
Under 4.5 Goals 93%	1/20 3%	1/20 1%
Over 5.5 Goals 2%	22/1 35%	18/1 27%
Under 5.5 Goals 98%	1/80 1%	1/300 1%
Over 0.5 Goals 89%	1/9 3%	1/10 3%
Under 0.5 Goals 11%	11/2 19%	11/2 7%
Home DNB 59%	4/9	10/21 3%
Away DNB 53%	13/8	29/20 2%
Blackburn win to nil 25%	9/4 4%	-
Preston win to nil 20%	9/2 8%	-
Blackburn / Blackburn 23%	5/2 3%	12/5 6%
Blackburn / Preston 3%	40/1 21%	28/1
Blackburn / Draw 6%	14/1	12/1
Draw / Blackburn 16%	4/1	19/5
Draw / Preston 11%	13/2	6/1 7%
Draw / Draw 19%	10/3 9%	3/1 9%
Preston / Blackburn 3%	28/1 12%	22/1 10%
Preston / Preston 14%	11/2 8%	19/4
Preston / Draw 6%	14/1	12/1

Win / draw / win Championship table

Blackburn have played 29 matches so far this season and lay in 7th place in the Championship league table.

Performance against teams below them in the league

They have played 21 games against teams below in the table, having won 10, drawn 2 and lost 9 matches. They have kept 8 clean sheets and have failed to score in 8 fixtures. Both Blackburn and Preston North End have scored 32 goals this season.

Home League Performance

Blackburn have played 15 games at home winning 8, drawing 2 and losing 5 games. They have scored 20 goals, kept 7 clean sheets and conceded 13 goals at home.

Preston are in 15th position in the Championship on 37 points having played 29 matches so far this season.

Away League Performance

6 of those games have been losing matches. They have conceded 23 goals and kept 4 clean sheets. They have scored 14 goals in total and failed to score in 4 fixtures.

Performance against teams above them in the league

18 games have come against teams above them in the table. They have lost 5 games, drawn 8 and won 5. Preston have conceded 22 goals, scored 21, failed to score in 4 fixtures and have kept 5 clean sheets.

BTTS yes BTTS no BTTS yes BTTS no Won Draw Lost Won Draw Lost Won Draw Lost Won Draw Lost Won Draw Lost Won Draw Lost Won Draw Lost Over 0.5 Under 0.5 Over 1.5 Under 1.5 Over 2.5 Under 2.5 Over 3.5 Under 3.5 Over 4.5 Under 4.5 Over 5.5 Under 5.5 For 0-0 Against Won Draw Lost	Blackburn Preston
Results by League Table

	TEAM	PLD	W	D	L	GD	PTS	HOME	AWAY	HOME	AWAY
1	Leeds	30	18	9	3	41	63	w 1-0F	d 1-1A	d 1-1F	Apr 12
2	Burnley	31	16	13	2	28	61	l 0-1A	d 1-1A	Feb 15	d 0-00-0
3	Sheff Utd	30	19	6	5	20	61	l 0-2A	May 3	l 0-2A	Mar 8
4	Sunderland	30	16	10	4	19	58	d 2-2F	Apr 21	d 0-00-0	Mar 11
5	Blackburn Home	31	13	6	12	4	45	-	-	d 0-00-0	l 2-1A
6	West Brom	30	10	14	6	12	44	d 0-00-0	Feb 12	d 1-1A	l 3-1A
7	M'Boro	30	12	8	10	10	44	Apr 5	w 0-1F	w 2-1F	d 1-1A
8	Norwich	30	11	9	10	7	42	Mar 1	d 2-2F	d 2-2F	Feb 11
9	Bristol C	30	10	12	8	3	42	w 3-0F	l 2-1A	l 1-3A	May 3
10	Sheff Wed	30	11	9	10	-3	42	Apr 8	w 0-1F	w 3-1F	d 1-1F
11	Coventry	30	11	8	11	3	41	l 0-2A	l 3-0A	w 1-0F	Feb 22
12	Watford	30	12	5	13	-2	41	Apr 26	l 1-0A	w 3-0F	w 1-2F
13	QPR	31	10	11	10	-5	41	w 2-0F	l 2-1A	Apr 18	l 2-1F
14	Millwall	30	10	10	10	3	40	Apr 18	l 1-0A	Feb 18	l 3-1A
15	Preston Away	30	8	13	9	-5	37	w 2-1F	d 0-00-0	-	-
16	Oxford Utd	31	9	10	12	-11	37	w 2-1A	l 1-0A	d 1-1A	l 3-1F
17	Swansea	30	9	7	14	-10	34	w 1-0F	Feb 22	Mar 1	l 3-0A
18	Stoke	30	7	11	12	-9	32	l 0-2A	Mar 11	Apr 5	d 0-00-0
19	Cardiff	30	7	10	13	-18	31	Mar 15	w 1-3F	Apr 8	w 0-2F
20	Portsmouth	30	7	9	14	-16	30	w 3-0F	Mar 29	Mar 15	l 3-1A
21	Hull	30	7	8	15	-9	29	l 0-1A	w 0-1F	w 1-0F	Apr 21
22	Derby	30	7	6	17	-9	27	w 4-2F	Mar 8	d 1-1F	Mar 29
23	Luton	30	7	6	17	-19	27	w 2-0F	Apr 12	w 1-0F	d 0-00-0
24	Plymouth	30	5	10	15	-34	25	Feb 15	l 2-1A	Apr 26	d 3-3F

	Promotion
	Promotion Play Off
	Relegation

Win / draw / win form

Home

Overall

Goals: Scored

Conceded

Games: Scored

11 / 20

Conceded

11 / 20

Clean sheets

9 / 20

Failed to score

9 / 20

Won

Draw

Lost

HOME FORM Win / Draw / Win
Blackburn	0 - 2	Coventry
Blackburn	3 - 0	Portsmouth
Blackburn	0 - 1	Burnley
Blackburn	0 - 1	Hull
Blackburn	2 - 2	Sunderland
Blackburn	2 - 0	Luton
Blackburn	1 - 0	Leeds
Blackburn	0 - 2	Stoke
Blackburn	0 - 2	Sheff Utd
Blackburn	0 - 0	West Brom
Blackburn	1 - 0	Swansea
Blackburn	2 - 0	QPR
Blackburn	3 - 0	Bristol C
Blackburn	2 - 1	Oxford Utd
Blackburn	4 - 2	Derby
Blackburn	0 - 0	Coventry
Blackburn	1 - 3	Sheff Wed
Blackburn	0 - 0	Southampton
Blackburn	0 - 1	Ipswich
Blackburn	1 - 1	Plymouth

Goals: Scored

Conceded

Games: Scored

11 / 20

Conceded

12 / 20

Clean sheets

8 / 20

Failed to score

9 / 20

Won

Lost

OVERALL FORM Win / Draw / Win
A	Blackburn	1 - 2	Bristol C
H	Blackburn	0 - 2	Coventry
A	Blackburn	0 - 1	Oxford Utd
H	Blackburn	3 - 0	Portsmouth
H	Blackburn	0 - 1	Burnley
A	Blackburn	1 - 1	Leeds
H	Blackburn	0 - 1	Hull
H	Blackburn	2 - 2	Sunderland
A	Blackburn	0 - 1	Millwall
H	Blackburn	2 - 0	Luton
A	Blackburn	1 - 0	Sheff Wed
A	Blackburn	1 - 0	Hull
H	Blackburn	1 - 0	Leeds
A	Blackburn	1 - 0	M'Boro
A	Blackburn	3 - 1	Cardiff
H	Blackburn	0 - 2	Stoke
H	Blackburn	0 - 2	Sheff Utd
A	Blackburn	0 - 1	Watford
H	Blackburn	0 - 0	West Brom
H	Blackburn	1 - 0	Swansea

Away

Overall

Goals: Scored

Conceded

Games: Scored

11 / 20

Conceded

14 / 20

Clean sheets

6 / 20

Failed to score

9 / 20

Draw

Lost

AWAY FORM Win / Draw / Win
Watford	1 - 2	Preston
Luton	0 - 0	Preston
West Brom	3 - 1	Preston
QPR	2 - 1	Preston
Cardiff	0 - 2	Preston
Sheff Wed	1 - 1	Preston
Stoke	0 - 0	Preston
Portsmouth	3 - 1	Preston
Plymouth	3 - 3	Preston
Burnley	0 - 0	Preston
Millwall	3 - 1	Preston
M'Boro	1 - 1	Preston
Oxford Utd	3 - 1	Preston
Swansea	3 - 0	Preston
West Brom	3 - 0	Preston
QPR	1 - 0	Preston
Southampton	3 - 0	Preston
Watford	0 - 0	Preston
Birmingham	1 - 0	Preston
Plymouth	0 - 1	Preston

Goals: Scored

Conceded

Games: Scored

17 / 20

Conceded

14 / 20

Clean sheets

6 / 20

Failed to score

3 / 20

Won

Draw

OVERALL FORM Win / Draw / Win
H	Preston	2 - 1	M'Boro
A	Preston	2 - 1	Watford
A	Preston	0 - 0	Luton
H	Preston	1 - 1	Oxford Utd
A	Preston	1 - 3	West Brom
H	Preston	3 - 1	Sheff Wed
H	Preston	1 - 0	Hull
A	Preston	1 - 2	QPR
H	Preston	1 - 1	Leeds
A	Preston	2 - 0	Cardiff
A	Preston	1 - 1	Sheff Wed
H	Preston	1 - 1	West Brom
A	Preston	0 - 0	Stoke
H	Preston	1 - 1	Derby
A	Preston	1 - 3	Portsmouth
H	Preston	0 - 0	Sunderland
H	Preston	1 - 3	Bristol C
A	Preston	3 - 3	Plymouth
H	Preston	2 - 2	Norwich
H	Preston	1 - 0	Coventry

Win / draw / win head to head (H2H)

Preston have not lost to Blackburn in 5 consecutive league meetings

Blackburn

Preston

Goals: Scored

Games: Scored

8 / 9

Clean sheets

1 / 9

BLB

PNE

FIXTURE HISTORY AT Blackburn
	1 - 2	Preston
	1 - 4	Preston
Blackburn	1 - 0
	1 - 2	Preston
Draw	1 - 1	Draw
	0 - 1	Preston
Draw	2 - 2	Draw
	1 - 2	Preston
Blackburn	3 - 2

Preston

Blackburn

Goals: Scored

Games: Scored

7 / 10

9 / 10

Clean sheets

1 / 10

3 / 10

BLB

PNE

FIXTURE HISTORY AT Preston
Draw	0 - 0	Draw
Draw	2 - 2	Draw
Draw	1 - 1	Draw
	1 - 4	Blackburn
	0 - 3	Blackburn
Preston	3 - 2
Preston	4 - 1
Preston	3 - 2
	1 - 2	Blackburn
	0 - 1	Blackburn

Goal Statistics

	Blackburn 5th	Preston 15th
	Kickoff prediction
Kickoff prediction	1.1 goals	1.0 goals
	Scoring probability
Scoring probability	0 32% 1 36% 2 21% 3 8% 4+ There is a 68% probability that Blackburn will score no more than 1 goal	0 36% 1 37% 2 19% 3 4+ There is a 73% probability that Preston will score no more than 1 goal

	20 home / away league games
20 home / away league games	-26 Blackburn have scored 26% fewer goals at home than predicted	-30 Preston have scored 30% fewer goals when away than predicted
	1.1 average goals scored	0.8 average goals scored
	0.9 conceded	1.6 conceded

Attack defence ratings
Championship - 2024/2025 season

BLB

PNE

better

view stats

Games scored	17		21
Failed to score	11		7
Scored first	13		14
Goals scored	31		30
Avg. goals scored	1.1		1.1
Avg. shots per game	8		7
Avg. shots per goal	7		7
Conversion rate for	15		14
Avg. XG for	1.2		1.2
KickOff rating		+6%

11%

better

BLB

PNE

view stats

Games conceded	17		18
Clean sheets	11		10
Conceded first	13		9
Goals conceded	26		35
Avg. goals conceded	0.9		1.3
Avg. shots/game conceded	9		8
Avg. shots/goal conceded	10		6
Conversion rate against	10%		16%
Avg. XG against	1.3		1.3
KickOff rating		+11%

Blackburn v Preston Championship lLine ups will show here when available.

Blackburn Championship squad statistics 2024/2025

Overall

Attack

Defence

Most starts	Most goals	Most assists	Most cards
31	6	6	9
D Hyam	A Weimann	M Gueye	M Gueye

Line-up	Appserances	goals	Assists	cards
A Pears GLK	30			4 -
C Brittain DEF	23	1	3	3 -
D Hyam DEF	31	1	1	6 -
D Batth DEF	28	2		4 -
O Beck DEF	23	1		4 1
L Travis MID	23	2	1	8 -
J Buckley MID	17			5 -
T Dolan MID	29	3	4	7 -
A Weimann MID	26	6	1	3 -
R Hedges MID	30	1	1	3 -
M Gueye FWD	30	3	6	8 1
Subs
B Tóth GLK	1			-
D Sanderson DEF	4			1 -
T. Atcheson DEF				-
T Cantwell MID	24	2	3	6 -
J Rankin-Costello MID	23	2	2	4 -
A Forshaw MID	6			-
A Cozier-Duberry MID	18	1		-
I. Dunn MID				-
F. Vare MID				-

Most goals	Most shots on target	Most assists	Most big chances
6	17	6	30
A Weimann	A Weimann	M Gueye	T Cantwell

Line-up	goals	shots on	Assists	big chances
A Weimann MID	6	17	1	10
T Dolan MID	3	12	4	19
M Gueye FWD	3	15	6	6
D Batth DEF	2	6		4
L Travis MID	2	4	1	9
C Brittain DEF	1	2	3	19
D Hyam DEF	1	2	1	4
O Beck DEF	1	2		16
R Hedges MID	1	10	1	21
J Buckley MID		2		6
Subs
T Cantwell MID	2	5	3	30
J Rankin-Costello MID	2	7	2	7
A Cozier-Duberry MID	1	4		3
D Sanderson DEF				1
A Forshaw MID				2

Most passes	Most tackles	Most duels won
1641	61	157
D Hyam	O Beck	M Gueye

Line-up	passes	tackles	duels won
D Hyam DEF	1641	31	151
D Batth DEF	1222	24	147
L Travis MID	919	54	106
A Pears GLK	890	1	14
C Brittain DEF	755	35	93
O Beck DEF	658	61	107
R Hedges MID	603	53	130
T Dolan MID	555	33	113
J Buckley MID	406	24	47
M Gueye FWD	314	20	157
A Weimann MID	294	8	26
Subs
T Cantwell MID	780	37	122
J Rankin-Costello MID	325	20	50
A Cozier-Duberry MID	181	11	34
A Forshaw MID	124	4	11
D Sanderson DEF	79		3
B Tóth GLK	21		1

Preston Championship squad statistics 2024/2025

Overall

Attack

Defence

Most starts	Most goals	Most assists	Most cards
29	8	3	10
F Woodman	E Riis	K Kesler-Hayden	L Lindsay

Line-up	Appserances	goals	Assists	cards
F Woodman GLK	29			4 1
J Storey DEF	29	1	1	6 -
L Gibson DEF	4			-
A Hughes DEF	26		1	5 -
K Kesler-Hayden MID	28		3	4 -
A McCann MID	26	1		9 -
R Ledson MID	14	1	1	4 -
J. Meghoma MID	3		1	1 -
S Greenwood FWD	26	5	2	6 1
M Frökjaer-Jensen FWD	27	2	3	5 -
E Riis FWD	30	8	2	2 -
Subs
D Cornell GLK	2			-
J Whatmough DEF	16		1	4 -
L Lindsay DEF	20		1	7 3
S Thórdarson MID	24	1	1	3 -
D Holmes MID	28	1	1	3 -
B Potts MID	22	4	1	4 -
C Evans FWD	1			-
F. Rodriguez-Gentile FWD				-
M Osmajic FWD	21	6	3	3 -

Most goals	Most shots on target	Most assists	Most big chances
8	23	3	21
E Riis	E Riis	K Kesler-Hayden	S Greenwood

Line-up	goals	shots on	Assists	big chances
E Riis FWD	8	23	2	13
S Greenwood FWD	5	22	2	21
M Frökjaer-Jensen FWD	2	3	3	19
J Storey DEF	1	2	1	9
A McCann MID	1	4		13
R Ledson MID	1	1	1	4
L Gibson DEF				1
A Hughes DEF		2	1	10
K Kesler-Hayden MID		7	3	13
J. Meghoma MID			1	1
Subs
M Osmajic FWD	6	13	3	3
B Potts MID	4	9	1	12
S Thórdarson MID	1	4	1	9
D Holmes MID	1	2	1	8
J Whatmough DEF			1	3
L Lindsay DEF		1	1	2
C Evans FWD				1

Most passes	Most tackles	Most duels won
1254	91	156
A Hughes	A McCann	J Storey

Line-up	passes	tackles	duels won
A Hughes DEF	1254	40	153
J Storey DEF	1231	45	156
F Woodman GLK	1004	1	17
A McCann MID	876	91	148
K Kesler-Hayden MID	821	37	145
M Frökjaer-Jensen FWD	646	32	66
S Greenwood FWD	465	26	84
E Riis FWD	274	15	73
R Ledson MID	211	22	40
L Gibson DEF	165	5	19
J. Meghoma MID	54	8	10
Subs
L Lindsay DEF	861	23	118
J Whatmough DEF	649	27	81
B Potts MID	587	44	123
S Thórdarson MID	493	12	55
D Holmes MID	281	17	58
M Osmajic FWD	88	6	31
D Cornell GLK	23
C Evans FWD	5

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Blackburn Rovers v Preston North End : Championship match betting preview, prediction and odds

Blackburn have played 29 matches so far this season and lay in 7th place in the Championship league table.

Performance against teams below them in the league

Home League Performance

Preston are in 15th position in the Championship on 37 points having played 29 matches so far this season.

Away League Performance

Performance against teams above them in the league

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