Sunday dinner is served with this Lancashire Hot Pot & this local derby clash of Bolton & Blackburn looks set to offer a menu of commitment, physical strength & determination with local bragging rights at stake in this one.

Now this fixture will definitely not be for the faint hearted or indeed those that are looking for flowing, passing football & great technical skills because there is so much riding on this game for both clubs.

This fixture is massive because both Bolton & Blackburn Rovers look set for long, hard seasons & both look destined to be involved in the relegation battle.

Bolton come into this home match with one of the worst home records in the Premier League with 8 goals scored & only 5 points gained from their first 6 home matches.

Bolton come into this match on the back of their humiliating 5-1 defeat at Aston Villa & Gary Megson will demand his players put right what went so badly wrong that day.

Gary Megson knows that Bolton have to improve their home form & we expect him to have his Bolton players fully pumped up for this massive fixture & we do expect a very positive display from Bolton here.

Bolton have major issues in defence with 24 goals conceded already & clearly that is one area where he will look to improve in this match.

Sam Allardyce knows he faces a massive task at Blackburn Rovers & the biggest indicator of that is their terrible away form.

Coming into this match, Blackburn Rovers have lost every single away match so far scoring only 3 goals & conceding 18 which is clearly not good enough.

Blackburn Rovers did get a vital home win over fellow relegation strugglers Portsmouth in their last game & that should at least mean the Blackburn Rovers squad come to this game with a boost to their confidence.

The atmosphere for this game should be great but we cannot see this game being a classic by any means because the pressure is so high & in what is bound to be an intensely competitive local derby, a low scoring draw appeals as a value bet worth taking.