Blackburn Rovers 1-1 Millwall: Szmodics scores once more as Rovers declare level towards Lions

Sammie Szmodics’ twentieth Championship purpose of the season earned Blackburn Rovers some extent towards fellow strugglers Millwall.

Obafemi, on as a half-time substitute – and on mortgage from Blackburn’s arch-rivals Burnley – struck on 54 minutes.

The striker managed the ball close to the sting of the penalty space, evaded a few challenges and took benefit of a ricochet off a Rovers defender by blasting an unstoppable shot previous keeper Leopold Wahlstedt.

Nevertheless, a mistake by Danny McNamara seven minutes later led to the division’s high scorer equalising.

McNamara’s stray move close to the sting of his personal penalty space fell straight to Arnor Sigurdsson and the Icelander teed up Szmodics, who coolly slotted previous keeper Matija Sarkic.

It got here shortly after Szmodics fired into the aspect netting from a good angle after being discovered by John Buckley’s by way of ball.

Whereas Harris has made a right away affect at Millwall, Blackburn are and not using a victory in six league matches and have gained simply one in every of their seven video games since John Eustace took over as boss.

Rovers stay seventeenth within the desk – one place above Millwall – and their residence type stays an issue. They’ve gained one in every of their previous seven matches at Ewood Park.

They badly want a house win on Saturday towards Plymouth, who sit instantly above them within the desk on purpose distinction.

Millwall, in the meantime, will likely be at to residence to Birmingham – the crew instantly under them – in one other essential sport within the battle to remain up.

Blackburn boss John Eustace:

“It wasn’t a basic however once more the lads have proven incredible character and togetherness, to come back from a purpose behind towards a tough opponent.

“I used to be happy with the response. We dominated possession with out actually testing their keeper, however we labored exhausting and caught collectively and it was an excellent level ultimately.

“The boys since I’ve are available in have been incredible. We’re taking part in gamers who’ve come again from lengthy accidents and they’re working by way of brick partitions for us. They’re leggy and drained however they’re absolutely dedicated to the trigger.

“There’s loads of groups from round tenth spot down that may be concerned within the relegation battle and it is simply very important we maintain believing in what we’re doing.”

Millwall supervisor Neil Harris:

“We’re actually happy with the factors whole of seven from three video games. The glass is unquestionably half full and there are many positives that I’ve discovered right this moment.”

“Danny is dissatisfied however he’ll get up and take duty and there have been different issues we did not do nicely within the build-up to the purpose, so there isn’t a particular person blame tradition.

“The massive factor for me is that we got here off and we gave a extremely poor purpose away however the gamers all talked about that it was a extremely good level for us tonight.”