Our prediction for this Championship match:
Blackburn Rovers
Match Time & Date:
24/01/2022
20:45
Prediction: 1-1
Middlesbrough
Monday’s football game between Blackburn and Middlesbrough will bring down the curtain on day 28 of the current Championship campaign. The Riversiders have been having their ups and downs of late, with the team sharing the spoils with Huddersfield, beating Cardiff, while losing to Hull in their last league match. Blackburn aim to climb to automatic promotion places, and they are likely to fight tooth and nail against the Boro.
All Harry Pickering, Ian Poveda, and Bradley Dack should miss out with injuries for the home side. Middlesbrough, on the other hand, are on a four-game winning run in the English second tier. Since both sides will go for a win in Monday’s showdown, we believe that there is a big value in betting on both teams to score. A man to watch in the away team will be Matt Crooks, who scored a brace in a 2-1 win over Reading, while both Marc Bola and Marcus Browne are sidelined with injuries.
Highlighted Player (Bradley Dack):
Born in Greenwich, England on December 31, 1993, Bradley Dack is a midfielder who plays for Blackburn Rovers in the Championship. Bradley Dack began his youth career at Charlton Athletic back in 2005 and five years later he moved to Corinthian. However, the English footballer started his senior career at Gillingham, making his league debut against Bradford City on August 18, 2012. 20 days later he scored his first senior goal as he found the net in Football League trophy clash against Crawley Town.
Before joining Blackburn Rovers on June 27, 2017 Bradley Dack played four games on loan for Braintree Town, scoring one goal in those league games. His main position is attacking midfielder, but he is used as both right and left midfielder as well. Dack once described himself as “free role behind two strikers”.
The Blackburn Rovers midfielder often finds the net and it has to be noted that he scored 16 goals in 36 appearances for the Riversiders in the 2017/2018 League One campaign.
Highlighted Team (Middlesbrough):
Middlesbrough is a professional football club that have been balancing between the top two divisions of England’s league system in the modern history. Boro have been playing their home games at the Riverside Stadium since 1995 and their shirt colour is red. The capacity of the Riverside Stadium is 34,742. Middlesbrough impressed in the 2015/2016 Championship campaign and they did really well to secure promotion to the English top flight. Newcastle United and Sunderland are regarded as the club’s main rivals, but there is a rivalry with Leeds United as well.
Middlesbrough made it to the FA Cup final in 1997, but Chelsea proved to be a big catch for the Boro in the title game (0-2). However, the Riverside Stadium outfit did remarkably well to win the League Cup trophy in 2004, with the team beating Bolton Wanderers in the final. George Boateng, Stewart Downing, Juninho Paulista, Gareth Southgate, Jonathan Woodgate, Yakubu Aiyegbeni, Tuncay Sanli and Hamilton Ricard are the star footballers who left their mark at Middlesbrough.
