Blackburn vs Coventry Prediction & Betting Tips (17 April)

Blackburn are playing with fire at the bottom of the table, having only 4 points ahead of Oxford, first in relegation. 4 days before the end of the season in the Championship, Rovers played a crucial match during the week on the pitch of the team not taken in recent weeks in England: Southampton. Depending on the result, either Blackburn will have managed to pile up a sixth game unbeaten run in the league after wins over Millwall 1-2 and Birmingham 0-1 and drawing parity with Middlesbrough 0-0, West Brom 0-0 and Stoke City on the road 1-1, or they will find defeat.  Coventry did not play during the week, but their runner-up Ipswich did.

Leader of the Championship, Coventry was 2 days ahead of Ipswich, who could have returned to 7 points in the event of a victory during the week. Coventry still has plenty to see ahead, especially as missteps are rare against them, despite their two recent draws without a visit against Hull City 0-0 and a little more surprisingly against Sheffield Wed last weekend 0-0. Only one defeat in the last 12 performances for Coventry, winner of 8 matches in the heart of this series, half of which were away on the lawns of West Brom 0-2, Sheffield United 1-2, Bristol City 0-2 and in style against Swansea 0-3. 

During the week for the trip to Southampton, no less than 12 players could be missing due to injury, in this case the important midfielders Sondre Tronstad (2 assists in the league) and Axel Henriksson, the long-term absentee Jake Garrett, the defenders Hayden Carter (important), Matty Litherland (rotation) and Lewis Miller (important), without forgetting to mention the attackers A.Kargbo (1 goal), R.Hedges (1 goal, 2 assists in the championship) and the crucial Andri Gudjohnsen (7 goals in the Championship). Added to the list of absent players, the experienced Scott Wharton, the Cape Verdean defensive midfielder Sidnei Tavares and the replacement defender Litherland.

On the other side of the median, the group should appear complete if we exclude the long-term absences brought by Miguel Brau and the goalkeeper Oliver Dovin. Note all the same the possible withdrawal of the excellent Japanese midfielder Sakamoto (7 goals, 3 assists in the Championship), withdrawal for the reception of Sheffield Wed. The main gunners of the squad like Haji Wright (16 goals), Thomas-Asante (12 goals, 4 assists), Ellis Simms (10 goals, 2 assists) without forgetting Torp (8 goals, 4 assists), Mason-Clark (7 goals, 5 assists) and Jack Rudoni (7 goals, 5 assists) will have to turn the switch back on to finish this campaign in style and seek a 2nd title of Championship champion in the club's history.