📏 Form Guide
Preston North End LLWWWD
Preston North End go into this game after a 1-1 Championship drawn result against Millwall.
In that game, Preston North End managed 51% possession and 8 attempts at goal with 6 of them on target. The only player to score for Preston North End was Michael Smith (15'). At the other end, Millwall had 14 attempts on goal with 4 on target. Mihailo Ivanović (36') was the scorer for Millwall.
It has been a rare occasion in recent times where Preston North End have kept a clean sheet. The facts show that Preston North End have been scored against in 5 of their previous 6 clashes, giving up 7 goals along the way. Putting that to one side, time will tell if such a trend shall be maintained in this next game.
Pre-game facts show that Preston North End:
- haven't beaten Blackburn Rovers in their last 3 league matches.
- are unbeaten in their last 2 home league matches.
Blackburn Rovers LLWWWL
Since a loss in their previous game against Derby County in Championship competition, Blackburn Rovers and their fans will hope to get a better result this time.
In that match, Blackburn Rovers had 65% possession and 8 shots on goal with 3 on target. The scorer for Blackburn Rovers was Yūki Ōhashi (66'). For their opponents, Derby County got 6 attempts on goal with 4 of them on target. Carlton Morris (19') and Patrick Agyemang (45') scored for Derby County.
Throughout their 6 most recent matches, Valérien Ismaël's Blackburn Rovers have found the back of the net 7 times thus yielding them the goals scored per game average of 1.17.
Looking at their past form shows that Blackburn Rovers:
- haven't won against Preston North End when they have played them away from home in the previous 3 matches in the league.
- haven't been defeated by Preston North End in away games against them for the last 5 league games. An impressive run.
- are unbeaten in their previous 2 league matches away from home.
↔️ Head to head
A look at their prior head-to-head clashes stretching back to 10/12/2022 tells us that Preston North End have won 2 of these games and Blackburn Rovers 1, with the tally of drawn games being 3.
In all, 17 goals were produced between them throughout the course of those matches, with 10 of them from The Lilywhites and 7 belonging to Rovers. That’s an average goals per game of 2.83.
The previous league encounter featuring the two was Championship match day 30 on 31/01/2025 which ended up with the score at Blackburn Rovers 2-1 Preston North End.
That day, Blackburn Rovers had 41% possession and 13 attempts at goal with 2 of them on target. Goals were scored by Makhtar Gueye (39') and Todd Cantwell (78').
Preston North End got 10 attempts on goal with 1 of them on target. Brad Potts (93') was the scorer.
The match was refereed by Josh Smith.
📋 Team News: Preston North End
It’s our opinion that The Lilywhites should line up in a 3-5-2 system for this one, beginning the first half with Daniel Iversen, Jordan Storey, Liam Lindsay, Andrew Hughes, Odel Offiah, Harrison Armstrong, Ben Whiteman, Alfie Devine, Thierry Small, Lewis Dobbin and Michael Smith.
🗞️ Team News: Blackburn Rovers
We are inclined to think that Rovers could decide to play in a 3-4-1-2 formation, starting Aynsley Pears, Lewis Miller, Sean McLoughlin, Ryan Hedges, Ryan Alebiosu, Axel Henriksson, T. Gardner-Hickman, Dion De Neve, Ryoya Morishita, Yuki Ohashi and Andri Gudjohnsen.
💡 Prediction
We feel that Blackburn Rovers and Preston North End could both find goals hard to come by here.
We’ll see, but this could easily end up all-square. We’re therefore expecting a tight encounter with a 0-0 scoreline at the end of the 90.
Renata Leite, 04:01 21/11/2025