Blackburn Rovers vs Burnley verdict, predicted score, key stats and suggested bets

Championship, Tuesday, April 25, Kick-off 8pm, live on Sky Sports Main Event.

Blackburn Rovers 1-1 Burnley

Blackburn to win or draw

Under 2.5 goals

Blackburn Rovers are winless in their last seven matches in all competitions, losing three of those.

Burnley are unbeaten in their last eight meetings with Blackburn, winning the last five.

Burnley have won just one of their four matches since securing promotion against Middlesbrough.

Burnley made history by becoming the first Championship side to seal promotion with seven games remaining.

Jack Vale (ankle), Daniel Ayala (hamstring), Clinton Mola (ankle) and John Buckley (knee) are long-term absentees for Blackburn and won't return for this game.

Sam Gallagher (hamstring) is the latest Rovers player to enter the treatment room and there are fears he could miss the rest of the season. Blackburn's January struggles mean there is no out-and-out backup for Gallagher.

Vincent Kompany's side could be without Hjalmar Ekdal. The Swede has picked up an undisclosed injury which could keep him out for the season. He's joined on the sidelines by top-scorer Nathan Tella (hamstring).

Blackburn Rovers' season has been spiralling towards disaster for a few weeks now. With the team winless in seven, it looked like Jon Dahl Tomasson's men had put their woes behind them with what they thought would be a victory over rivals Preston on Saturday.

Rovers controlled possession but failed to make good quality chances, until the game became stretched in the closing stages and Samuel Szmodics found space inside the box to slot home.

The visitors held onto their lead under pressure until a 94th-minute own goal from Dominic Hyam struck the latest in a series of damaging blows to their play-off hopes. Defeat against Burnley would take matters out of their hands.

Vincent Kompany's side will travel to Ewood Park on the back of one of the more shocking results of the season so far.

The Clarets recorded 81% possession, 21 shots at goal, 11 corners and limited QPR to six shots, all of which came from set pieces and counter-attacking football. Despite that, the R's won 2-1.

The defeat was Burnley's first of the season at Turf Moor and means they are now winless in three. They haven't been any less dominant in games, but they have been less clinical in the absence of Nathan Tella.

Tella has contributed 17 goals and five assists from six different positions this season and his presence makes Burnley a much more tactically flexible side.

Blackburn's run of five wins in six matches before the international break had them sitting pretty in fifth. They were nine points behind Sheffield United, but crucially, four points clear of the play-off chasing pack.

Defeat for Rovers at Ewood Park on Tuesday night would mean that things are no longer in their hands, with Coventry, Sunderland and Millwall all leap-frogging them in recent weeks.

History is on the side of the visitors who have won the last five meetings between the sides, keeping a clean sheet in four of those. They're also unbeaten in eight meetings.

With the low-scoring nature of most of those games, coupled with Burnley's current struggles and Blackburn's typically structured performances at home, goals could be hard to come by in a full-blooded affair.