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Blackburn Rovers vs Charlton Athletic | Sat 20th Dec 2014 | Match Preview, Teams, Predictions, News

BLACKBURN ROVERS v CHARLTON ATHLETIC
Saturday 20th December 2014 – 3pm Kick-Off
Referee: David Webb (Lancashire)


INTRODUCTION
This Saturday will truly mark the beginning of the Christmas period, with four matches in two weeks, this is where the Championship season will really heat up, some teams could still be punching above their weight whilst others could require a continuous run of games to really get their season going, this is the period where seasons can be won or lost... the Christmas period has had a bit of irony thrown in this season, with the FA Cup 3rd Round drawn just a week ago, the Addicks not only find themselves against Championship opposition once more but find themselves starting and ending the two weeks against the very same club: Blackburn Rovers.

THE OPPOSITION
With the January Transfer Window opening in just two weeks; Blackburn Rovers find themselves hit with a transfer embargo after failing to remain within the Financial Fair Play rulings, this could make, Manager: Gary Bowyer’s job a little harder come the new year as Blackburn find themselves just a point ahead of the Addicks in what will be a crucial match with both sides vying for the Play-Offs…

As mentioned Blackburn currently hold 8th place in the Championship having won a total of eight fixtures this season (just four of these have come at Ewood Park), seven matches have been drawn (possibly about to become eight) whilst six matches have ended in defeat, in terms of current form, Blackburn have lost their previous two matches against Brentford and Sheffield Wednesday whilst their last victory was against Leeds United on the 22nd November.

Continuing with the stats… Blackburn have scored a total of 32-goals this term (Rudy Gestede surprisingly ahead of Jordan Rhodes as their top scorer with 12 goals) whilst 31-goals have been conceded against them with Blackburn only managing to keep three clean-sheets so far this season.

KEY PLAYER
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Although Rudy Gestede is ahead in the goal scoring department, for me he is nothing more than a target man who is useful with his head, the battle with the likes of Tal Ben-Haim or Andre Bikey on Saturday could certainly be interesting whilst Jordan Rhodes could also be a key player yet for me seems to go missing in the majority of matches against the Addicks, for me though my key player this Saturday is their Captain: Grant Hanley

Breaking into the Blackburn First-Team in 2009 at the same time as current Manchester United Defender: Phil Jones, Grant originally started his career north of the border in his native Scotland (for whom he has 17-caps) by representing the Youth teams of Queen of the South and Glasgow Rangers; joining Blackburn in 2008 as a 16-year old, Grant has gone on to appear over 120 times for the Rovers and was made Captain in 2014 after the departure of fellow Defender: Scott Dann.

With Bob Peeters favouring the slight Strikers in Igor Vetokele and Callum Harriott of recent weeks, both players will need to be prepared for some rough treatment with Hanley and Co. all too keen to prove just who the Home side are at Ewood Park!!

LINE-UP
The simple question will be on most fans lips this weekend… Will Peeters continue with the same formation that faced Blackpool, with me writing this Preview prior to the Press Conference tomorrow there could be a few changes to the below line-up, with the Christmas period looming though the main question though will be when Chris Solly appears and because of his fitness concerns… will Joe Gomez play in the same side this weekend because of that… You decide!!

Pope
Solly - Ben-Haim - Bikey - Fox
Gudmundsson - Buyens - Cousins - Harriott
Vetokele - Tucudean

PREDICTION
Blackburn Rovers 1-2 Charlton Athletic
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Comments

  • We are playing Blackburn and the referee is from Lancashire. Marvellous.
  • We are playing Blackburn and the referee is from Lancashire. Marvellous.

    Yup thought the same when I noticed that on the Football League website... Pop-Quiz: Anyone know which County, Blackburn is in?
  • We are playing Blackburn and the referee is from Lancashire. Marvellous.

    Is that even allowed?
  • could work in our favour though,if hes a bolton fan he may hate blackburn
  • he's the ref who got injured when we played the Posh
  • This is definitely 0-5.
  • Not sure that's Rudy Gestede in the pic!! Otherwise, a good preview. ;-)

    Will be happy with a thirteenth draw of the season. Three points would be a bonus.
  • We're going to get a bit of a thumping here I recon
  • Not sure that's Rudy Gestede in the pic!! Otherwise, a good preview. ;-)

    Will be happy with a thirteenth draw of the season. Three points would be a bonus.

    There ya go poppet... I've made it clearer for you now ;-)
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  • Not sure that's Rudy Gestede in the pic!! Otherwise, a good preview. ;-)

    Will be happy with a thirteenth draw of the season. Three points would be a bonus.

    That's Grant Hanley in the picture who is mentioned as the key player in the article.
  • iaitch said:

    Not sure that's Rudy Gestede in the pic!! Otherwise, a good preview. ;-)

    Will be happy with a thirteenth draw of the season. Three points would be a bonus.

    That's Grant Hanley in the picture who is mentioned as the key player in the article.
    Think thats what the wink was for :)
  • Not sure that's Rudy Gestede in the pic!! Otherwise, a good preview. ;-)

    Will be happy with a thirteenth draw of the season. Three points would be a bonus.

    There ya go poppet... I've made it clearer for you now ;-)
    Oopsy!! Thank you. :-)
  • edited December 2014
    Ben Marshall is the man who makes Blackburn really tick on a good day, stop him and you stop them .. Rhodes is having less impact than of yore and their defence can be either rock solid or just plain rocky .. whatever, we'll do well to get a point from this one

    Blackburn Roves 1 v CAFC 1 (I type optimistically) .. enjoy it all who travel up there

    PS: Who remembers the terrific headed goal from Chelsea's David Webb in the 70s FA cup final replay v Leeds ?

  • edited December 2014

    he's the ref who got injured when we played the Posh

    Thank god we gave him respectful applause as he was stretchered off instead of laughing and serenading him with abusive songs...
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  • 1-1 is 7/1. It's like printing money
  • Comfortable away win 4-0.
  • Comfortable away win 4-0.

    One day mate :-)
  • Blackburn 2 charlton 1, narrowly cling on to a place in the top half of the table
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  • cafc4life said:

    could work in our favour though,if hes a bolton fan he may hate blackburn

    And if the ref is Burnley we will win 10-0
  • The players will look to the fans for a lift

    3-0 Rovers

    5-0 on that basis
  • Forever Addickted celebrates his 1000 likes achieved earlier in the week by stealing a march on Stubley and gets the pre-match thread out on a Wednesday? Stubley to retaliate and I expect to see the Blackburn cup game pre-match thread up by 2mo!

    As for predictions, I am worried that the poor performance against Blackpool will carry on and affect the players on Sat, so would be happy with, yes, a draw (Ruining Yoni Buyens Xmas coz he hates draws)
  • I thInk that our slippage done the table continues. 3-0 to Blackburn, Gestade 2 and Rhodes1
  • The players will look to the fans for a lift

    3-0 Rovers

    And we'll do our bit, oohaah !

    I'm bringing a dozen cardboard cut outs to place strategically in the gaps in our end & a tape recording of the tremendous noise generated by us at errr, another game.

    With this and the 4 of your 7 sons you're bringing along, we'll show those chicken pluckers what real support is !

    :-)

  • 1-1 up your bum boring draw.
  • Hmmm I too first noticed the ref from Lancashire. Perhaps he is Burnley and will give us a fair go. Anyway I think we rebound from last Saturday's draw and get the win at Ewood for the 2nd year in a row. 1-2 Charlton Johann and Callum
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