Blackburn Rovers vs Portsmouth Prediction and Betting Tips | January 15th 2025

Blackburn Rovers will host Portsmouth at Ewood Park on Wednesday in another round of the 2024-25 EFL Championship campaign. The match was originally scheduled to be held last November but was postponed due to a waterlogged pitch.

Blackburn will be keen to build momentum from their 1-0 cup win over Middlesbrough during the weekend and return to winning ways in the league after failing to win any of their last five league games.

The hosts shot up the league table starting in early November by winning six consecutive matches but have since dropped to seventh place with three losses and two draws in their last five, most recently a 1-0 home defeat against Burnley.

Portsmouth’s 1-0 loss at Sunderland last weekend marked their fourth loss in six league games and their 11th of the league season after 24 games played. The visitors are currently tied with second-to-the-last-placed Cardiff City and will be desperate to avoid dropping into the relegation zone at this stage of the season.

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Blackburn Rovers vs Portsmouth Head-to-Head and Key Numbers

• The two sides have met on 90 previous occasions going into Wednesday's game. Blackburn have won 40 of those meetings, 24 have ended in draws while Portsmouth have won the remaining 26.
• The hosts have won seven of the last 10 meetings with Portsmouth scoring 19 goals and conceding just seven across those matches.
• The visitors have failed to find the net in four of the last seven editions of this fixture.
• The Riversiders have scored 28 goals in the English second division all season. Only six teams have managed fewer, five of which are in the bottom six in the table.
• Portsmouth have conceded 41 goals in the league in 24 matches. Only Luton Town (44) and Plymouth (53) have shipped more.

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Blackburn Rovers vs Portsmouth Prediction

Blackburn are comfortable favorites going into Wednesday's match and will only need to pose more of an attacking threat than they have been in recent weeks to get all three points.

Portsmouth suffered a disappointing 2-0 defeat to Wycombe Wanderers in the FA Cup last time out to register their fourth defeat in five games. They are without a win in their last nine games on the road and could see defeat here.

Prediction: Blackburn Rovers 2-0 Portsmouth

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Blackburn Rovers vs Portsmouth Betting Tips

Tip 1 - Result: Blackburn to win

Tip 2 - Goals - Over/under 2.5 - Under 2.5 goals (Nine of the hosts’ last 10 matches have produced fewer than 2.5 goals scored)

Tip 3 - Both teams to score: NO (Both sides have found the back of the net in just two of the visitors' last nine matches)