Blackburn Rovers 2-0 Nottingham Forest: What happened? Who stood out? What are the fans saying?

Nottingham Forest continued their fine form on Wednesday night, as they beat Blackburn Rovers 2-0 at Ewood Park.

The result sees Steve Cooper’s side climb into the Championship play-off spots, while the hosts slipped out of the automatic promotion places and down to third in the table.

Here, we’ve rounded up some of the talking points from this all important promotion clash in Lancashire.

What happened?

It was Blackburn who missed the first big chance of the game a quarter of an hour in, when Joe Rothwell’s clever free kick played in John Buckley one on one, only for the midfielder to see his effort saved by Brice Samba when he should have done better.

That is something Rovers were made to pay for just moments later, when Keinan Davis did brilliantly to see of pressure from a number of defenders, before playing in James Garner, who showed impressive composure to curl an effort into the bottom corner and put Forest 1-0 up.

Things got worse for Blackburn shortly after half time, when captain Darragh Lenihan was shown a second yellow card for a high challenge on Jack Colback.

Although that seemed to spark Rovers into life with some improvement in Tony Mowbray’s side, they were unable to find an equaliser, before Forest made it 2-0 in stoppage time, Brennan Johnson converting a penalty spot after Sam Surridge was brought down in the area by Jan Paul van Hecke.

Who stood out?

For Forest, it is hard to look beyond Keinan Davis when it comes to this question.

The on-loan Aston Villa man produced an outstanding centre half performance, causing all sorts of problems for a Blackburn back three that has usually looked so solid in recent weeks.

Rovers were struggled to keep him quiet up until the point he was substituted with 20