ADAM’S FAITH WITH ROVERS

Wanted star keeps Blackburn in play-off hunt

throwing away a 2-0 lead at Griffin Park and having a major injury list including Lewis Holtby and Bradley Dack, they are dark horses to gatecrash the top six.

Armstrong added: “There’s no reason at all why we can’t make the play-offs. We need to keep pushing.

“We know how tight the league is, we just need to keep going, keep creating chances and hopefully we will be there come the end of the season.

“We’re really pleased. We have a great squad. We knew the lads who weren’t playing earlier in the season had to step up. They’ve done that and we’ve been doing really well. It can only be a plus for when some of the lads come back from injury.”

Armstrong gave Blackburn the lead with a classy 11th-minute finish before converting a 54th-minute penalty after David Raya fouled John Buckley.

But the Bees came right back from the dead thanks to a wonder strike from Ollie Watkins (above) eight minutes later and Said Benrahma’s 71st-minute penalty after Amari’i Bell had fouled Mads Roerslev. Brentford have drawn three on the spin and now find themselves six points behind second-placed Leeds in the race for automatic promotion.

However, impressive Danish sub Roerslev said: “We have to be pleased with one point. It is better than nothing. In the second half we dominated. “Our boss Thomas Frank told me to play my own game and bring some energy.

“When we were 2-0 down it is all about going forward so as a wing-back you feel free.

“It was so good to feel a sell-out crowd. We could feel it on the pitch. We felt like whenever we got the ball everyone was pumped up.

“We want to go even further forward with the atmosphere.”