The big Blackburn Rovers decisions facing Tony Mowbray ahead of Coventry clash

Blackburn Rovers were loving life a few months ago in the top two of the Championship – fast forward to the end of March though and they’re well and truly looking over their shoulders.

Since the transfer window slammed shut at the end of January, Tony Mowbray’s side have picked up just eight points out of a possible 30, scored just four goals and have seen injuries occur to key players at the worst possible times.

Rovers went into the international break on the back of a 1-0 loss to struggling Reading – a match in which they lost some key players to injuries – and they’re now in the final play-off spot, with Middlesbrough, Queens Park Rangers and Nottingham Forest looming behind with games in hand.

A tough test awaits on the road on Saturday when Mowbray visits his former club Coventry City, but what dilemmas is he going to have to contend with? Let’s take a look.

Brereton to start?

Having reached the 20-goal mark for Blackburn after just 25 league matches, Ben Brereton-Diaz was going through somewhat of a mini-drought before his untimely ankle injury against West Brom in mid-February.

When the Chile international hobbled off at The Hawthorns, it had been six matches since he found the back of the net and Rovers’ scoring hasn’t gotten much better in his absence.

Mowbray was unsure if Brereton was going to have recovered in time for the clash with the Sky Blues, but he managed 80 minutes in Chile’s 2-0 loss to Uruguay earlier this week, so if he has come through that and the long transatlantic flight home unscathed, Mowbray then has a decision to make.

When he returned from international duty in October and January earlier this season, both times in the next Blackburn matches Brereton has been on the bench, so the same