Blackburn meets Wolverhampton at home, on Saturday, August 13th 2011, at 15:00 UK time.
Blackburn
It has been almost 3 months, since Blackburn visited Wolverhampton in the last Premier League round for 2010/2011, where Rovers won with 3:2. Some news around the team, while the season was off, are that they bought midfielder Radosav Petrovic, from FK Partizan, a brilliant 22 years old Serbian international, who has had many offers but moved to Ewood Park. Rovers finished last season on the 15th spot with 43 points, and played 5 friendly games during the off season. Three victories, a draw and a loss to Aston Villa is the record they achieved.
Wolverhampton
Wolverhampton was the last team to secure their place in the new Premiership 2011/2012 season, after a loss to Blackburn in the final round with 2:3, and staying with 40 points overall. The team missed relegation only by a point, and will most likely put an extra effort this season, to avoid the same situation at the end of the campaign. During the summer friendlies, Wolverhampton started with a loss against a League Two team Crewe with 1:2, but recorded afterwards, a draw and 4 victories. Most noticeable where the victories over Celtic and Zaragoza.
Prediction
The statistics for this game is very one sided as Wolverhampton has not beaten Blackburn on Ewood Park, in the past 11 years, where 5 games were played, 3 from the Premier League and 2 for the Championship.
04/12/2010 Premier League Blackburn vs. Wolves 3:0
12/09/2009 Premier League Blackburn vs. Wolves 3:1
16/08/2003 Premier League Blackburn vs. Wolves 5:1
18/11/2000 Championship Blackburn vs. Wolves 1:0
03/01/2000 Championship Blackburn vs. Wolves 1:1
Four victories and a draw, and notice the game in 2003 was also an opener on August 16th, a victory with 5:1 for Blackburn. Seems like the Wolves have a hard time on this stadium, and have won only 2 of the last 10 games, both of which at home, once in 2008 and once in 2000.
My prediction for this game would be a victory Blackburn.
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