MATCH THREAD: BLACKBURN ROVERS v CARDIFF CITY " MATCH THREAD

BLACKBURN ROVERS v CARDIFF CITY
Saturday 15th March, 3pm
Sky Bet Championship - Match 38
Ewood Park 







Omer Riza:

“Joe Ralls is training fully. He’s been here a long time and he’s part of the fabric of the Club. He’s got a great attitude and character, the captain of the Club and it’s nice to have him back.


"David Turnbull has been training a few days and looking good. Both of them have a good chance of being in the squad.“





Aaron Ramsey out injured once again till Mid April:
In 2 seasons in 85 League and Cup Games Ramsey has Started 11 Games ( many not completed 90mins), plus 9 as Sub.

Tanner out for March.


TEAM NEWS:


Omer: "@10DavidTurnbull is training. He trained really well today.

"Jesper Daland is running, and did some technical stuff with us in the morning."

“Yak (Yakou Meite) and Rallsy (Joe Ralls) are fit.


“Andy Rinomhota has been ruled out with a hamstring injury.”




TEAM NEWS:


Omer: "@10DavidTurnbull is training. He trained really well today.

"Jesper Daland is running, and did some technical stuff with us in the morning."


Omer Riza:

“Yak (Yakou Meite) and Rallsy (Joe Ralls) did some training individually with the S&C (strength and conditioning) coaches, they are on their way back.”



“Andy Rinomhota has been ruled out with a hamstring injury.”

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Club Connections

Peter Whittingham is the first name that comes to mind when thinking about players who have played for both teams.

Nathan Blake is another.

Rival Players

Andreas Weimann spent several years with Bristol City.

Ryan Hedges had a brief spell at Swansea.

The Opposition's Manager

Valerien Ismael was appointed Blackburn manager last month. It is his first managerial job since leaving Watford in March 2024.

He also previously had spells in charge of Barnsley and West Brom.

He unexpectedly took Barnsley to the Championship play-offs.

Opposition Dangerous Players

Makhtar Gueye has six goals this season.

Tyrhys Dolan has contributed four goals and five assists.

Head To Head 

We lost 3-1 at home to Blackburn earlier in the season.

That was one of four defeats in the last five games against them.

Team News - Predicted Line-Ups

Blackburn Rovers: Pears, Brittain, Carter, Hyam, Ribeiro, Tronstad, Travis, Ohashi, Dolan, Kargbo, Gueye

Cardiff City: Horvath, Ng, Goutas, Bagan, O'Dowda, Chambers, Mannsverk, Robinson, Colwill, Davies, Salech

Last Game

We lost 2-1 at home to Luton on Tuesday.

On Wednesday, Blackburn lost 1-0 away at Stoke.

Match Odds

Blackburn Rovers - 10/11
Cardiff City - 3/1
Draw - 12/5

Predictions

Post your predictions below 

While Riza is at the wheel it will be nothing more than 3pts dropped unfortunately

Aaron Ramsey out injured once again till Mid April:
In 2 seasons in 85 League and Cup Games Ramsey has Started 11 Games ( many not completed 90mins), plus 9 as Sub.

one win away from home all season not a chance with riza if still at the helm blackburn win

Blackburn lost 1-0 at Stoke tonight

Blackburns last 4 matches, Lost 3 Drawn 1

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08/03/2025 Sunderland 2 Cardiff City 1 Crowd 40,644 Away Support 497



11/03/2025 Cardiff City 2 Luton Town 0 Crowd 16,641 Away Support 418





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think luton had a worse away record but we still managed to lose we not going to win away from home at blackburn with riza or any of his backroom staff if riza has gone!!

If RIZA is in charge it must be a win no other result will do !!!

Omer Riza:


“Joe Ralls is training fully. He’s been here a long time and he’s part of the fabric of the Club. He’s got a great attitude and character, the captain of the Club and it’s nice to have him back.

Seeking to move closer to the Championship playoffs, Blackburn Rovers play host to relegation-threatened Cardiff City at Ewood Park on Saturday afternoon.

The Bluebirds are out for revenge against the hosts after they suffered a 3-1 defeat in the reverse fixture in South Wales just under four months ago.

Blackburn are still searching for their first victory under new head coach Valerien Ismael, who has followed up a 1-1 draw with Norwich on home soil with back-to-back away defeats against Derby County (2-1) and Stoke City (1-0), losing to the latter on Wednesday.

Blackburn's Augustus Kargbo has been ruled out for around six weeks with a hamstring injury and has joined Harry Pickering, Danny Batth, Harry Leonard, Owen Beck, Scott Wharton and Andreas Weimann in the treatment room.

Ismael is hoping to get the best out of forward Emmanuel Dennis, who briefly played under him at former club Watford and is yet to score for Rovers in three substitute outings since joining on loan in January.

Dennis will likely begin on the bench once again this weekend, though, as Makhtar Gueye - who has eight goals to his name this term - leads the line with Tyrhys Dolan and Todd Cantwell providing support in attack.

As for Cardiff, Aaron Ramsey picked up a hamstring injury in midweek and has joined Jak Alnwick, Joe Ralls, Ollie Tanner and David Turnbull on the sidelines.

Andy Rinomhota remains a doubt having missed the last two games with a hamstring problem. Perry Ng is therefore expected to continue at right-back, while Sivert Mannsverk will likely replace Ramsey and partner Chambers in midfield.

Get the novelty or totally inept players away from this starting 11.

Rubin, Willock, ElGhazi & Meite. Have a weekend off. Even Alves; this is a scrap, not a development - he's not impacting their goal.

Horvarth
NG Goutas Fish Bagan
Chambers Mannsverk
(Isaak or Ashford) Robinson O'Dowda
Salech

Get Bagan, Isaak and Ashford in a room, chuck Calon Lan on full blast, VHS footage of ZULU, and tell them that they are to save this club from the mess that the 'experienced at this level' players have put us in. It's their club more than some of the ones on triple their pay. At the least, if we go down, lets blood those not the dead wood.

Our bench is VERY limited then for scrappers. Robertson then Isaak or Ashford. The above list aren't helping us pick up points.

Ashford overlooked on Tuesday after a decent start to 2025 is worrying. Especially when he's out performing Rubin, ElGhazi, Meite and Alves combined with goals and assists.

Absolutely zero chance of winning as we can't defend. It will be a draw, City will be in the relegation zone for the international break and Riza will finally be sacked as the board at last see sense that he is a total loser and start to panic. Two weeks of mad speculation about who takes over will soon begin.

Absolutely zero chance of winning as we can't defend. It will be a draw, City will be in the relegation zone for the international break and Riza will finally be sacked as the board at last see sense that he is a total loser and start to panic. Two weeks of mad speculation about who takes over will soon begin.

The Luton forums were all saying that they had no chance of getting anything last tuesday; look what happened there.

No point trying to second guess the team selection. More chance of predicting the lottery numbers.

Best we’ve looked this year was with Robertson and Turnbull as the two in Midfield…. I also think we look better with Ashford playing.

Would still love us to play a traditional 442 with Salech and Ashford up top, close together

FIVE CHANGES

TINKERING AGAIN

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We’ve had a good start to the day:

Millwall 90th min penalty

Millwall 1 Stoke 0

1-2 To the Bloobirds (Ralls Robinson)

We’ve had a good start to the day:

Millwall 90th min penalty

Millwall 1 Stoke 0

stoke missed 2 sitters as well, maybe lady luck is shining down on us today

We are going to struggle out wide today.

No width or pace at all in that team.

We’ll go one or two nil down and he’ll bring on attacking players, when it’s too late.

Blackburn Rovers TV Commentator says Rovers are lacking confidence and their last few games have been worse than awful and Cardiff’s position in the league is perilous and they will really up for this.

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Bluebirds

We can win this :

It’s going to be even.

But we can win

We must not conceded early

Free kick Bagan

Throw in Rovers

City attacking