Allardyce - Rovers can survive

Sam Allardyce has backed his team to beat the drop following their 2-1 victory over Fulham at Craven Cottage on Wednesday. Rovers entered the game third from bottom in a tight relegation battle and fell behind early on. But second half strikes from El-Hadji Diouf and Jason Roberts overturned Clint Dempsey's opener.The win was Rovers' second away from home on the spin which has rejuvenated their hopes of survival, and Allardyce is confident his side have what it takes."That's two defeats now in 11 games since I've been here and we've had two away wins on the bounce - that shows we are gathering enough points to get us out of trouble," said Allardyce."It's important the results and the form keep coming. As long as we are carrying on in that vein, the sooner we can try and get to safety."Gifting that goal in the first half made it very difficult for us but games are 95 minutes now and at the end of that 95 minutes it said, Fulham 1 Blackburn 2."That's a result I feel we thoroughly deserved. We're a team in good form on the way up rather than some of the teams around us who are in poor form and sliding down."Allardyce was keen to point out the influence Steven Warnock has had in their recent burst of form. The left-back has been deployed as a makeshift central midfielder in recent weeks, and the Rovers boss has been more than impressed."Stephen has been our driving force. He's been a revelation since we put him infield. The only thing missing for him was a well-deserved goal."His performances drive the whole team at the moment but it doesn't matter who scores as long as we get the victory and we did that."

Source: SKY_Sports