Blackburn vs Ipswich Prediction and Betting Tips: Back Szmodics and Moore both to find the net
Blackburn Rovers take on Ipswich Town on Friday evening in the Championship. The hosts find themselves in the midst of a relegation battle, while the visitors have their sights set on automatic promotion in their first season back in the third tier.
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Looking at the prices from different bookmakers for the match result on bank holiday Friday and understandably Ipswich are the favourites to collect the three points priced at Evens with most firms. The draw can be backed at 13/5, while a much-needed win for Rovers can be sided with at 11/4.
Blackburn vs Ipswich Tips
Our first selection on Friday for this 5:30pm kick-off that can be seen live on Sky Sports is for Ipswich to win the game. It’s been a phenomenal campaign so far for The Tractor Boys after their promotion from League One last season and they look a good price here for the win in Lancashire at even money.
Heading into the Bank Holiday weekend, Ipswich sit third, just one point behind both Leeds and Leicester in the Championship standings. Automatic promotion back to the promised land is a real possibility and it’s worth noting that they have lost fewer games than any other side in the division this term (5). Ipswich have won seven of their last eight matches, with their most recent result being a 6-0 demolition job over Sheffield Wednesday two weeks ago.
Blackburn on the other hand cannot buy a win at the moment. You have to go all the way back to February 10th for their last league win. In total Rovers have won just one of their last 17 league matches. John Eustace’s side sit just three points above the relegation zone and still have to play all of the top-four this in their eight remaining games. We have two sides here whose form is night and day at the moment and backing the visitors at evens looks a solid prospect against a struggling Blackburn outfit.
At 10/1 we are also having a few quid on both Kieffer Moore and Sammie Szmodics to find the net, again with bet365. Since making the loan move from Bournemouth to Ipswich at the start of February, Moore has put in some classy performances for Town and has already managed six goals in just 10 appearances. Away from Portman Road he has scored five goals in five league matches for Ipswich and at just north of 2/1, he looks a little too big to find the net against Rovers.
The one shining light for Blackburn this season has been Sammie Szmodics who is the Championship top scorer in 2023/24 after netting 21 goals. Szmodics is on a high now after the birth of his first child along with making his debut for the Republic of Ireland in the most recent international break. The 28-year-old has scored in three of his last four at Ewood Park despite his team's poor form and combining him and Moore to score on Friday pays 10/1.
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