Championship · Matchday 9 Match report

Blackburn Rovers 2-1 Cardiff City: Result, Match Stats and Our Prediction

Blackburn Rovers

2-1Full time

Cardiff City

Saturday 10 October 2026, 14:00 UTC Ewood Park, Blackburn, Lancashire

Our picks against the result

4 of 12 right

Result Cardiff City win40% 2-1
Double chance Blackburn Rovers or Cardiff City (12)73% 2-1
Goals over/under 2.5 Over 2.550% 3 goals
More corners Cardiff City47% Blackburn Rovers (11-6)
Yellow cards Above average 0 yellow cards · league 3.7
Yellow cards 0 yellow cards 2.5 Over76% 3.5 Over57% 4.5 Under63%
Corners Around average 17 corners · league 10.6
Corners 17 corners 9.5 Over60% 10.5 Under50% 11.5 Under60%

Match stats

Blackburn Rovers Cardiff City

2 Goals 1
0 Yellow cards 0
0 Red cards 0
11 Corners 6

Goals, yellow and red cards and corners of each club.

Before kick-off

What this page showed before the match: our reasons, form, ratings and records as they were then.

Match summary

Blackburn Rovers vs Cardiff City is the Championship fixture at Ewood Park on Saturday 10 October 2026, and our model makes Cardiff City the pick for Matchday 9. We also lean to either side winning, with no draw, in our double chance.

Why this pick?

Cardiff City get the nod mainly because our model rates them slightly the stronger side on its long-run measure, while Blackburn Rovers sit below the Championship average. The visitors also arrive with the better attacking picture from their last five games, well ahead of the division's norm for shots, big chances and time in the opposition box. Against that stands something simple: Blackburn play at home, and Ewood Park is worth something. What keeps the pick standing is that Blackburn's chance creation has been clearly short of the league average, so the home advantage has less to work with. It is a narrow call, and we treat it as one.

Form guide

Blackburn Rovers

D 2-2 at Portsmouth (A) Championship · 19 Sep
W 3-1 vs Millwall (H) Championship · 12 Sep
L 1-2 vs Sheffield United (H) Championship · 8 Sep
L 1-2 at Preston North End (A) Championship · 5 Sep
D 0-0 at Lincoln City (A) Championship · 1 Sep

Cardiff City

W 3-1 vs Charlton Athletic (H) Championship · 19 Sep
L 0-1 at Bolton Wanderers (A) Championship · 12 Sep
D 1-1 vs Stoke City (H) Championship · 8 Sep
L 0-2 at Portsmouth (A) Championship · 5 Sep
L 1-2 at Queens Park Rangers (A) Championship · 2 Sep

Last five competitive matches before kick-off, all competitions, results after 90 minutes.

Attack and defence ratings

Blackburn RoversCardiff City

Attack 4 61 1.5 goals per match this season1.3 goals per match this season

Defence 57 4 1.5 conceded per match this season1.5 conceded per match this season

0 to 100 against this season's Championship clubs (100 = best). The rating is our model's long-run strength before this match: it uses the last three years and counts recent matches most, so a few results do not move it at once. Under each rating: this season's actual goals per match.