{"id":67410,"date":"2022-08-05T08:23:55","date_gmt":"2022-08-05T07:23:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/?p=67410"},"modified":"2022-08-05T08:27:57","modified_gmt":"2022-08-05T07:27:57","slug":"swansea-city-v-blackburn-rovers-head-to-head","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/2022\/08\/05\/swansea-city-v-blackburn-rovers-head-to-head\/","title":{"rendered":"Swansea City v Blackburn Rovers &#8211; Head to Head"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Swans welcome Blackburn Rovers to the Swansea.com stadium tomorrow for their first home game of the season and the chance to build on last weekend&#8217;s 1-1 draw at Rotherham.<\/p>\n<div class=\"getty aligncenter\"><a id='9j5pz_F8Q5JamOvDpmi6sQ' class='gie-single' href='http:\/\/www.gettyimages.com\/detail\/1238230831' target='_blank' style='color:#a7a7a7;text-decoration:none;font-weight:normal !important;border:none;display:inline-block;'>Embed from Getty Images<\/a><script>window.gie=window.gie||function(c){(gie.q=gie.q||[]).push(c)};gie(function(){gie.widgets.load({id:'9j5pz_F8Q5JamOvDpmi6sQ',sig:'mqP8yx6gGnYj-FE_pCDSDCjbshDQbQy9EpyDNPE1v54=',w:'594px',h:'388px',items:'1238230831',caption: false ,tld:'com',is360: false })});<\/script><script src='\/\/embed-cdn.gettyimages.com\/widgets.js' charset='utf-8' async><\/script><\/div>\n<p>The overall record between the two teams shows the Swans trailing slightly with Blackburn ahead 23-16 in head to head matches with 8 draws.<\/p>\n<p>In recent times though the record is much more in favour of the Swans with Blackburn&#8217;s only win in the last eight being on the corresponding weekend last season when they inflicted a 2-1 defeat on Russell Martin in his first game in charge.<\/p>\n<p>Michael Obafemi&#8217;s 16th minute goal back in February was enough to settle this fixture last season, the lowest scoring game of the last 12 meetings between these sides which has produced a total of 40 goals in those 12 games.<\/p>\n<p>There has only ever been one 0-0 draw between the sides &#8211; a clash at Ewood Park back in our promotion winning season of 1980\/81.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Swansea City v Blackburn Rovers &#8211; Full Head to Head record<\/strong><\/p>\n\n<div class=\"getty aligncenter\"><a id='zJc9waFRREZwTuS7MS72zA' class='gie-single' href='http:\/\/www.gettyimages.com\/detail\/1234572947' target='_blank' style='color:#a7a7a7;text-decoration:none;font-weight:normal !important;border:none;display:inline-block;'>Embed from Getty Images<\/a><script>window.gie=window.gie||function(c){(gie.q=gie.q||[]).push(c)};gie(function(){gie.widgets.load({id:'zJc9waFRREZwTuS7MS72zA',sig:'MVqGgbfdeuDtWCNGtKucauFx4Lfwt8a75hPLbKpjYxQ=',w:'594px',h:'594px',items:'1234572947',caption: false ,tld:'com',is360: false })});<\/script><script src='\/\/embed-cdn.gettyimages.com\/widgets.js' charset='utf-8' async><\/script><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Swans welcome Blackburn Rovers to the Swansea.com stadium tomorrow for their first home game of the season and the chance to build on last weekend&#8217;s 1-1 draw at Rotherham. The overall record between the two teams shows the Swans trailing slightly with Blackburn ahead 23-16 in head to head matches with 8 draws. In [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":62918,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[293,49,203],"tags":[536,665],"class_list":["post-67410","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-first-team","category-news","category-opinion","tag-blackburn-rovers","tag-the-2022-23-season"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67410","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67410"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67410\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/62918"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}