Owen Coyle Hails Resilience of Blackburn after Brentford Victory

Blackburn Rovers manager Owen Coyle hailed the resilience of his team after they managed a 3-2 win over Brentford to rise up to one place away from safety.

There was a danger of Blackburn being cut off from the rest of the Championship at one point. However, recent victories have helped the team gave hope about avoiding relegation, and none more so than the result against Brentford. Despite conceding after just 30 seconds on the clock through a goal from Scott Hogan, Blackburn did not lose faith and they were soon level through Danny Graham in the 15^th minute.

The English striker soon helped the home team go ahead in front through a penalty in the 20^th minute. It was a great turnaround, but Blackburn were not able to keep the advantage for long after Hogan equalised for Brentford. Coyle says that it would have been easy for his players to give up after the setback.

However, they were back in front once again, this time through an own goal from Harlee Dean. Incredibly, all of the five goals scored in the game came in the first half. The result does not lift Blackburn out of the drop zone just yet, but it is a great chance nonetheless.

The team’s next match is against Newcastle away from home.”Over the course of that game we fully deserved the three points.I thought we were outstanding today, we scored three goals and could have had five or six so there is a lot to be pleased about.With the clear cut chances that we had in the first half, the game should have probably been out of sight.Some of our football, particularly in the first half, was sensational. Then in the second half we had plenty of opportunities,” said the manager after a hardfought win.