Under manager Sam Allardyce, Blackburn Rovers is a hard fought side that not many teams enjoy playing, similar to Stoke City and Wolves. Allardyce is a dirty manager in that his troop will make physical hard fouls at all cost to get result. Allardyce has been one of the most efficient managers in the league in managing limited budget. Since domestic players are relatively more costly and over-priced, Sam loves to get in lessor-known and bargain-priced foreigners. However, with the introduction of new premiership home-grown player requirment, Blackburn may now face some trouble as majority of the key squad being foreigners. The team do possess hard fought players such as Congo CB Samba and Irish DMF Andrews, but they do not have skillful creative players nor a reliable goal scorer. They rely heavily on Allardyce's strength in efficient set-piece tactics and Senegal veteran WG Diouf in drawing foul for creating set-pieces. Their attack is so one-dimensional that sometimes even giant CB Samba needs to go forward to support attack. Althought the team does have some growing young foreigners such as French CMF N'Zonzi and Croatia FW Kalinic, Blackburn will soon be involved in relegation battle without new player acquisition, despite finishing 10th last season.
Strongest line-up: <4-4-1-1>
Strongest line-up: <4-4-1-1>
Robinson
Emerton Samba Nelson Givet
Diouf Andrews N'Zonzi Pedersen
Dunn
Roberts
Prediction: Survival
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