Blackburn vs Millwall — Championship result and pre-match forecast, Saturday, 12 September 2026

Championship·Saturday, 12 September 2026·14:00

3 – 1

BlackburnExpected goalsMillwall
1.27 xG1.31 xG

Metis pre-match forecast

Market-anchored distribution

Frozen as published · 5.6 h before kick-off. Never re-computed after the match.

Blackburn

36%

pick · result

Draw

28%

Millwall

35%

Final score

3–1

Top pick landed

Metis gave a Blackburn win 36.4% before kick-off, and its most likely result was a Blackburn win. Expected goals 1.27–1.31 against 3–1 actual.

Forecast against the result

Over 2.5 goals48%4 scored
Both teams score53%yes
Blackburn clean sheet28%no
Millwall clean sheet28%no
Blackburn score 2+37%yes
Millwall score 2+37%no

How this forecast scored

Ranked probability score0.2650
1X2 Brier score0.6087
Probability on the result36.4%

Both scores are losses: lower is better, 0 is a forecast that put all of its probability on what happened. A single fixture says nothing on its own — the league's running record is on its league page, and the model is measured against the Pinnacle opening price in the methodology.

Most likely scores before kick-off: 1–1 (13.4%), 1–0 (9.4%), 2–1 (8.8%). It finished 3–1.

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Blackburn

19 SeptAvs Portsmouth2–2D
12 SeptHvs Millwall3–1W

Millwall

19 SeptHvs West Ham2–2D
15 SeptAvs Middlesbrough2–2D
12 SeptAvs Blackburn1–3L

Head to head

No previous meetings in the Metis results archive for this competition.