Pick of the stats - Blackburn Rovers v Portsmouth
Blackburn Rovers v Portsmouth
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Blackburn welcome Portsmouth to Ewood Park after ending a run of four games without a win by beating Cardiff 3-1 in Wales last time out.
Pompey are three points from safety but won their second game of the season before the international break, a 3-1 success over Preston at Fratton Park.
Blackburn Rovers are unbeaten across their last five league games against Portsmouth (W4 D1), since a 3-2 loss at Fratton Park in November 2008.
Portsmouth have lost each of their last three and six of their last seven (W1) away league games against Blackburn Rovers, with this fixture not seeing a draw at Ewood Park since April 2000.
Blackburn have won both of their Championship games against newly promoted teams this season, having gone nine without a win against promoted teams before this (D2 L7).
Portsmouth's Colby Bishop has scored six goals in his last eight league appearances, netting in his first ever Championship appearance last time out in the 3-1 win over Preston.
Blackburn's opening goal at Cardiff last time out was following a sequence of 41 passes before Andreas Weimann scored; only one Championship goal has had more passes in the build-up on record (since 2013-14), a Cesare Casadei goal for Leicester against Rotherham last December (54).
