England - Premier League: Blackburn vs Hull Despite the heavy defeat at Britannia, Blackburn sit seven points clear of the relegation zone, although the Rovers need to continue their good home run in order to stay up. Hull significantly boosted their survival hopes by beating Manchester City, although the Tigers need to improve on the travels as well if they want to avoid the drop.
Blackburn are still safe
Rovers ended the good run of results with the 3:0 defeat at the hands of Stoke but they, nevertheless, remained in the safe zone, well clear of the bottom three. Sam Allardyce’s side didn’t pick up a lot of points from the travels but their impressive home form is what’s keeping them above the relegation zone and the win over Hull would certainly go a long way. Nevertheless, Rovers are still missing a couple of important players and they could struggle against the in-form Hull, and we recommend backing Blackburn to score under 1.5 goals at 1.85 offered by Sportingbet.
Key defender Christopher Samba is suspended following his dismissal in the Stoke game, while team’s most influential player and top scorer David Dunn is still not fit to play. Vince Grella and Lars Jacobsen have finally resumed training but they are lacking match fitness and probably won’t make the squad. Big Sam doesn’t have worthy replacements for players like Samba, Dunn and Grella, and that will definitely be a problem.
Hull deserved the victory over City
After the major struggles to escape the danger zone, the Tigers have finally started showing some promise and they are slowly climbing the Premiership ladder. The good performance against Chelsea was just a sign of things to come as Hull produced a brilliant performance to beat Manchester City last weekend and they thus extended their lead on the bottom three to three points. Phil Brown’s team also showed they can play well on the travels, having picked up points from White Hart Lane and Reebok Stadium and we believe they can do well at Ewood Park as well. Therefore, we see a good value in backing Hull with Asian handicap of +1 at odds of 1.58 offered by Canbet.
Geovanni, Kamel Ghilas and Dean Marney remain injury doubts, while Ian Ashbee and Jimmy Bullard are still sidelined, which means we are likely to see a similar side to the one that started the City game. Nevertheless, Phil Brown could opt to revert to 4-5-1 formation, in which case Vennegor of Hesselink would probably be dropped.
Betting verdict
Blackburn’s form seems to be on the downtrend, while the Rovers are set to miss several very important players. Hull, on the other hand, have raised their form over the last few weeks and they are buoyed by the triumph over Manchester City, and we don’t think they will lose at Ewood Park.
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