Blackburn Rovers secured their fourth-straight away success in the Championship on the weekend with a resounding three-goal victory over Alex Neil’s Stoke in Staffordshire,
with Scott Wharton, Sammie Szmodics and Andy Moran finding the net as the Ewood Park club sealed their second-biggest win of the term.
It is the first time in 22 years that the Rovers have managed four successive maximums on the road, but Jon Dahl Tomasson’s men are keenly aware that they need to improve their
home form in order to achieve a coveted top-six finish, with the one-time Premier League champions losing five of their eight second-tier matches at their Lancashire home.
Local rivals Preston North End were the visitors to Ewood Park in the final match before November’s international break and the hosts were dealt a
significant blow in the final moments of the match, when Lilywhites centre-back Liam Lindsay netted a 90th-minute winner in front of a hysterical away end.
Following the departure of Ben Brereton Diaz to La Liga heavyweights Villarreal in the summer transfer window, former Peterborough United Szmodics has really stepped up to
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shoulder the goalscoring burden, and the 28-year-old’s 11 Championship strikes means he currently leads Southampton marksman Adam Armstrong in the division’s Golden Boot race.
With matches scheduled against Birmingham and relegation-threatened Sheffield Wednesday over the next week, Blackburn supporters will
certainly be highlighting this period as a real opportunity for their side to close the three-point gap to Ryan Lowe’s Preston and climb into the playoffs.
