We deserved a point, says Rovers boss

BLACKBURN manager Tony Mowbray felt his side deserved a point from their game at Huddersfield on Tuesday.

Rovers have now won just once in their last seven away from home and Mowbray was frustrated to see a point slip away after Sam Gallagher’s late equaliser.

“I thought we deserved a point, we knew they were a good football team and that it was not going to be easy,” he said.

“We had opportunities. We should have been 1-0 up in the first minute. We snatched at chances, and their keeper made great a save from [Adam] Armstrong.

“We worked a lot on defending their corner and they score straight from a corner, with a header into an empty net. That is hugely disappointing and not like us.

“To lose it is a huge disappointment, and our dressing room is a pretty angry place to be honest. But we have to take it on the chin. The players are angry and I question them sometimes when we are missing that bit of raw determination.

“We need to turn the corner and start winning games.

“Were we too expansive? We had everyone back on both goals. We threatened their goal but it is just not going in at the moment.

“We are all disappointed and frustrated. The game has gone now. It was a good football match and they are a good team, and move the ball well.

“I don’t know what our backline next game will look like until we look at scans tomorrow of the players who came off. I’m not a doctor but the players came off because they didn’t feel they could continue.

“[Tom] Trybull was a clash of knees, Daniel [Ayala] was a muscle strain.”

TOWN have now scored a set piece goal in each of their last three games.

Last season only Barnsley scored fewer Championship set piece goals than the Terriers’ 10, but in racking up six goals from their 22 league games this campaign the Terriers have doubled their output from dead balls this season.

This season they rank joint-seventh for set piece goals, in amongst a load of physically robust sides like Stoke, Birmingham, Preston, Rotherham and Luton.

After the game Carlos Corberan credited his assistant Narcis Pelach as the mastermind behind their set piece routines, but there was nothing too extravagant about this one. Isaac Mbenza simply swung it in to the just outside the six yard box for Naby Sarr to head home.

Having a 6’5” behemoth in your opponent’s penalty box is a useful weapon.

But having a varied repertoire is surely helping Town keep the opposition guessing too. Mbenza and Carel Eiting stand together over every dead ball, at least during the setup phase, leaving opponents unsure whether they’re going to have to face the kind of lovely corner routine that created Rarmani

Edmonds-Green’s goal against Barnsley or a straightforward inswinger like the one Sarr headed home on Tuesday night.

On top of that, Mbenza almost found the net with a shot from out wide on the left when everyone was expecting a cross.

We don’t ever want to see a Town player getting caught offside from returning a short ball straight back to the corner taker ever again, mind.