Sheffield United v Blackburn Rovers: 'We did enough to win' - Tony Mowbray's Rovers reaction to Blades win
Tony Mowbray thought his Blackburn Rovers side did enough to secure three points against Sheffield United tonight, despite ultimately returning over the Pennines with none after Ben Davies’ injury-time winner for the 10-man Blades.
United had Charlie Goode sent off in the second half, and then watched Wes Foderingham save a penalty from Reda Khadra as Rovers looked to take advantage of their extra man.
But they couldn’t find a way past Foderingham, and were hit with a sucker-punch in injury time as substitute Ben Davies pounced to score the winner for the Blades.
He said: “I think over 90 minutes we did more than enough to win the game but that’s football – it’s cruel sometimes. You’ve got to give them a lot of credit for digging in and sticking at it. They got their rewards late on.
“I think this team is full of energy, legs, athleticism and ability. We’re just a team who graft and work hard, ask questions of the opposition.
“Did we give them enough problems? I think so. We have to find ways to win matches. Tonight we maybe should have won 1-0.
“They need telling how good they are and what a brilliant team ethic they’ve got. We have to stick together and keep going.
“They were playing in the Premier League last year and we’d got five kids from our academy starting and I thought they competed fantastically well. They should be proud of themselves.”
Rovers now haven’t won, or scored, in five games and were without their star man Ben Brereton at Bramall Lane.
“Whether that be a scrappy goal, a goal from a corner like theirs, a penalty kick, we have to find a way to score goals to win matches,” Mowbray added.
“In this recent run we’ve had a couple of 0-0 draws, earlier in the season we were winning them 1-0.
“Tonight we could have won 1-0, but give them [United] credit; they stuck at it and got a result somehow.”