Wolves vs Blackburn Rovers: Tony Mowbray confident of Championship survival

Tony Mowbrary oversaw an impressive first seven games in charge after replacing the sacked Owen Coyle with Rovers unbeaten, winning two and drawing five.

Since the start of April, though, a run of one win, one draw and three defeats in five games has seen them dragged back into the bottom three.

They did, though, enjoy a productive Easter weekend with victory at Nottingham Forest and a draw at home to fellow strugglers Bristol City.

And in their last three games Blackburn face teams with nothing to play for – Wolves, Aston Villa and Brentford.

Mowbray is confident they can leapfrog out of the bottom three in the nick of time.

“We’ve got a strong belief that we aren’t going to lose football matches,” the former Albion boss said.

“In 12 games we have lost three, and for a team that was second bottom at the time it is not a bad run of results to go nine games unbeaten. So we have to make sure that the next three are of a similar ilk.

“It would be nice to win one and draw two and see where those five points take us.

“If we can win two and draw one then that would be even better.

“If we win them all then we can all have a good night after the end of the Brentford game.

“So let’s see where it takes us. I have every belief in the group that we can make life difficult for teams.”

There will be a couple of familiar faces in the Blackburn team tomorrow, with Wolves academy graduate Elliott Bennett and ex-loanee Danny Graham due to play.

Scottish defender Charlie Mulgrew wasn’t expecting to make another return to Molineux, with an anterior talofibular ligament (ATFL) injury seemingly forecasting the end of his season a couple of weeks ago.

However, a speedy recovery saw him return to training this week.

“At one point it was looking a bit unlikely,” Mulgrew, who left Wolves in 2008, said.

“I always had one eye on maybe getting back for the last game, but it’s worked out that my ankle feels great and I’m ready to go for Saturday.

“It’s more nerve-wracking watching the games than being involved in them to be honest, so I’m just glad that I can come back and hopefully I can contribute and do my bit between now and the end of the season.

“The manager will have us ready for the match and we all know what we need to do. A win on Saturday would be massive. We’ll take each game as it comes and this is the next game, so we’ll be 100 per cent focused on the tactics and what we have to do.

“Everybody knows what we need to do. We need to fight for the cause and work hard and pick up points.”