Mon Oct 03, 2022 8:24 am
The pre-match facts
Cardiff City are winless in seven league games against Blackburn (D4 L3) since a 2-1 win over them in August 2016.
Blackburn won 1-0 at Cardiff last season and are looking for consecutive away league wins against them for the first time since a run of four between 1980 and 1985.
Cardiff have won four of their last five home league games in midweek (Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday), although the only game they failed to win in that run was a 2-1 defeat to Luton this season.
Blackburn have lost three of their last four Championship away games (W1), failing to score in each of those defeats. Indeed, in 2022, only Harrogate and Rochdale (both 11) have failed to score in more Football League away games than Rovers (10).
Only against Birmingham (4) does Blackburn’s Ben Brereton have more goals against an opponent in the Football League than Cardiff (3), with the forward netting a hat-trick against the Bluebirds in September 2021.