City are set to welcome back Mohamed Belloumi to the side after his ACL injury picked up in the defeat to Oxford in November 2024 but they have lost Matt Crooks with an ankle problem and also Akin Famewo who picked up a knock in training. This could mean we see some of the Under 21's to step up to the bench with the likes of Stan Ashbee, Cathal McCarthy, Harry Vaughan and Aidon Shehu with the quartet not travelling to Watford for Fridays under 21's game at Watford which ended 2-2

News was not good on the EFL appeal with this with the decision to bring the transfer ban down to two windows rather than it be just this summer or scrapped all together but with the squad that has been assembled so far with loans and frees starting off well lets hope there can be some more gems unearthed until next summer.

Blackburn arrive at the MKM on the back of two league defeats and like city are also out of the league cup with Bradford City winning 2-1 at Ewood Park.

With another large crowd expected for Saturdays match Sergej Jakirović will be hoping his troops can build on their positive start to the league campaign ahead of a tough test next week against Bristol City at Ashton Gate

Predicted Line Up: Pandur, Drameh, Hughes, Egan, Giles, Lundstram, Slater, Ndala, Gelhardt, Palmer, McBurnie

Prediction Tigers 3 Blackburn 1