The Rovers have a massive talent gap. They lost Ben Brereton-Diaz to Valencia on a free transfer. They sold their GK Kaminski to Luton and their #1 GK Pears is injured. Their best defender Hyam is injured. They’re small and young up front. Justin Leonard is 18. He shows promise as 9 but he’s very inexperienced and will be pushed around by a larger CB. Dolan is 21. Szmodics works really hard but he’s small. Blackburn plays bring it out from the back. With an iffy GK and backs who aren’t athletic, an athletic Premier League squad that presses at all is going to force a lot of mistakes and get easy goals. Blackburn will have to rotate a lot of their squad and they have no depth. The Rovers will play hard but Chelsea playing squad players would have to be completely demotivated to lose.
The Rovers have a massive talent gap. They lost Ben Brereton-Diaz to Valencia on a free transfer. They sold their GK Kaminski to Luton and their #1 GK Pears is injured. Their best defender Hyam is injured. They’re small and young up front. Justin Leonard is 18. He shows promise as 9 but he’s very inexperienced and will be pushed around by a larger CB. Dolan is 21. Szmodics works really hard but he’s small. Blackburn plays bring it out from the back. With an iffy GK and backs who aren’t athletic, an athletic Premier League squad that presses at all is going to force a lot of mistakes and get easy goals. Blackburn will have to rotate a lot of their squad and they have no depth. The Rovers will play hard but Chelsea playing squad players would have to be completely demotivated to lose.