Sam: We’ll get Rover this sticky spell
Rovers made it seven points from the last three games following yesterday’s goalless draw at West Ham.
Allardyce, though, knows it should have been another victory. Midfielder Morten Gamst Pedersen saw his 25-yard free-kick come back off the crossbar just before the break, with Rovers stepping up the pressure following the restart.
Allardyce believes with a more ruthless streak in front of goal, Rovers can go places this season.
“You have to accept you have to make more chances to score goals than the big boys because you haven’t got as clinical finishers as them,” he said. “We haven’t got the Rooneys or the Berbatovs to score the amount of goals they score.
“When they get two chances, they score once whereas our players maybe need three or four chances to score a goal because we are at the lower end of the market in terms of the players that you buy and nurse them through to get the best out of them.
“But next time round hopefully they will score and we will win the game. That is why you end up finishing in mid-table rather than a higher position and if you don’t score enough of the chances you get you end up in the bottom half.”
Allardyce continued: “We have been clawing our way out of the bottom end; if you see what a win would have given us, with another two points, we would have had people talking about we might even get up into the Europa League now.”
Blackburn are set to sell striker Benni McCarthy to the Hammers, who are battling to stay up.
While Allardyce may have been less than impressed by the way the veteran South African missed training in an effort to force through the move, the Rovers boss feels McCarthy can still do a job in the Premier League.
“He is a hugely talented player that can play his best football in the final third,” said Allardyce.
“However, Benni is not getting any younger so when you’re not getting any younger the legs are not quite as good, but the talent is still there.
“If you can get other players around him to do the work load then he will use the talents to get you chances and score you goals.
“He will be really, really good when he comes to the club because he generally is the best he is when he first goes to any new club.”
MATCH RATING: * – A dreadfully lacklustre affair only came to life in the last 15 minutes as Blackburn went after the win, and West Ham clung on desperately for a point.
REFEREE: Peter Walton (Northamptonshire) 6/10 – Blackburn had a strong case for a late penalty when Givet’s goalbound effort was kept out by the left arm of Mark Noble.
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