, “We shot ourselves in the foot” – Blackburn Rovers manager Tony Mowbray annoyed with two dropped points

“We shot ourselves in the foot” – Blackburn Rovers manager Tony Mowbray annoyed with two dropped points

Blackburn Rovers manager Tony Mowbray has been left frustrated by more dropped points late on, after his side blew a two goal lead to draw 2-2 against Birmingham City on Saturday afternoon.

After 76 minutes, Blackburn Rovers were 2-0 up thanks to goals from Danny Graham and half time substitute Adam Armstrong. However, by the 79th minute, Birmingham City had pulled it back to 2-2 after Craig Gardner converted a penalty and striker Che Adams tapped in from close range.

In form striker Danny Graham headed in from Harrison Reed’s cross to score his fifth goal in as many games to put Rovers ahead at Ewood Park.

They doubled their lead just one minute into the second half, as summer signing Adam Armstrong drilled home after a tidy backheel from playmaker Bradley Dack.

With all three points seemingly in the bag, Rovers shot stopper David Raya came to claim a scuffed clearance from Charlie Mulgrew, but he brought down Birmingham defender Maxime Colin in the process. Gary Gardner stepped up and fired home to make the score 2-1.

Just two minutes later, Rovers’ three points turned into just one. Gary Gardner was involved once again, as his ball to Che Adams was fired on from close range.

Tony Mowbray spoke of his frustration after the game after watching his side throw away more points late on.

“It’s quite amazing to think we threw away two points having worked so hard to get in to a 2-0  lead in difficult conditions for football,” Mowbray told the Lancashire Telegraph.

“There was a swirling wind, rain for 90 minutes and it wasn’t a great game because the conditions didn’t allow for getting the ball down and playing too much football.

“Yet to get yourselves 2-0 up going in to the final 15 minutes, we manufactured our way to drop two points.

“We have to accept it, be frustrated by it, but know we have to be better. We’ve come back from 2-0 down ourselves down at home to Reading, that’s the way it is. It’s a disappointing dressing room because we had the points in the bag.

“They didn’t have a shot in the second half up until David goes walk-abouts in his penalty area and gives a penalty away.

“Then some pretty poor positional play for the second goal, inside the full back. I’m not sure how we manufactured that to drop two points but we did. We have to take it on the chin.

“They weren’t creating anything.

“It wasn’t a day for playing nice football, it was a day for not making mistakes and for seeing if your strikers could keep up with something and keeping your shape behind the ball.

“We were doing that really comfortably and there was no danger. We shot ourselves in the foot.”

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