Mowbray bemoans yet another wasted chance

FOR the first time in a long while, Blackburn looked truly galvanised. ewood park bayed, Sam Gallagher having equalised with 19 minutes left.

Bristol City, who had taken an early lead through Chelsea loanee Tammy Abraham, were on the ropes.

Rovers fans sensed a chance to finally leave the Championship’s bottom three, but their side could not find the breakthrough.

It was certainly a missed opportunity but, luckily for Tony Mowbray, there are others equally inept at grinding out victories in this scramble for survival.

The gap to Nottingham Forest in 21st place is down to a point but a rousing late rally amid an intense atmosphere should have seen Rovers overtake them.

‘We’re not happy with a point,’ Mowbray said. ‘It’s a point we have to put into the bag and move on. It would be nice going to Brentford on the last day not being in the bottom three.’

To achieve that aim, Rovers must start their next two games far better than they did yesterday’s.

Mowbray called his side ‘tepid’ as they were initially outclassed by a City side who should now be safe from relegation.

Rovers were frozen by fear, incapable of stringing a meaningful number of passes together, and went behind after 14 minutes.

dozing at the back, the hosts allowed Abraham to run on to Jamie paterson’s clever chip. The hands went up for offside but derrick Williams was playing the striker on, and Abraham wonderfully flicked past david Raya.

‘My analyst has told me it was 31 passes that led to the goal,’ lee Johnson said. ‘ Tammy’s market value has probably shot up and we’ve done well for him and Chelsea too.’

The visitors had chances to put the game beyond Rovers but the hosts came back into it through Gallagher’s towering header.

less than 10 minutes later the Rovers striker went down in the box under Korey Smith’s challenge but nothing was given.

‘It was a blatant penalty,’ said Mowbray. ‘I’m not sure how it wasn’t a penalty. We have to live with it.’