Opponents will expect Rovers to collapse - Gallacher

Blackburn Premier League winner Kevin Gallacher says teams will expect Rovers' current crop to collapse in the closing stages of games.

Ipswich stole a point at Ewood Park in the 94th minute on Tuesday, just four days after Wrexham denied Valerien Ismael's side a win with a 95th-minute leveller.

Seven of the 23 goals Blackburn have conceded in their 18 Championship games have come in the 90th minute or later, costing them seven points - which would have seen 18th-placed Rovers within two points of fourth-placed Stoke instead.

Gallacher told BBC Radio Lancashire sports editor Andy Bayes: "It's disappointing, when they have worked so hard in two games, go into the lead and think you've got it.

"Whether it's substitutions or the way players are playing or that players don't understand how to see a game out, it's too often now.

"Teams will be looking now and thinking 'if we can stay in the game the last 10 minutes we'll just throw everything at Blackburn and we'll get a goal because they seem to collapse'."

Gallacher had sympathy for Ismael's passionate rant about decisions going against his side, saying Ipswich should have had "a definite red card" before half-time after Azor Matusiwa's foul on Ryoya Morishita when he looked to be clean through on goal.

"If it was the Premier League, VAR would show it was a clear sending-off," said Gallacher. "Hopefully the tide turns and [Ismael] doesn't have his knuckles rapped."

He added: "There are lots of positives. They played well. Performing like that for lengthy times, the fans were getting behind them. It was fantastic to see.

"It's game management, we need players running channels unselfishly just to get the team up the park to get the six or seven seconds you need to get back into shape.

"We just get deeper and deeper and the crowd go quiet, players get nervous, and that's when you make mistakes."

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