Blackburn pulled off an impressive win away from home last night, beating Fulham 2-1 and in the process leaping from 18th to 15th in the Premier league.
After 90 seconds Fulham’s Clint Dempsey burst on to Danny Murphy’s header, outmuscled Ryan Nelson and poked home.
Blackburn struck back when Chris Samba squared his header for El-Hadji Diouf to tap in unmarked on the back post.
El-Hadji Diouf celebrates his goal :
And with five minutes to go, Rovers secured a vital three points when Jason Roberts used his strength to turn Tony Kallio and shoot beyond Mark Schwarzer.
Blackburn manager Sam Allardyce:
“This was a big game from the player’s point of view because nobody else was playing in the Premier League and this was our catch up game.
“It has been a massive, massive three points and with nobody else playing it has shifted us up the league a bit.
“It was certainly the biggest win since iv been here, the pressure the players are under and going a goal down so quickly it meant we had to show tremendous character and fight and spirit and as well as all that talent we have got we had that fight to come back and win.
“The timing is good, lets strive to stay out of there now and stay in the position we are and if we can get a little further out of the bottom three.”
Jason Roberts & El-Hadji Diouf after Roberts 85th minute goal :
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