{"id":799987,"date":"2026-10-12T08:36:16","date_gmt":"2026-10-12T08:36:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/799987\/"},"modified":"2026-10-12T08:36:16","modified_gmt":"2026-10-12T08:36:16","slug":"blackburn-rovers-injury-latest-after-key-men-taken-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/799987\/","title":{"rendered":"Blackburn Rovers injury latest after key men taken off"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n Blackburn<\/a> Rovers’ key men were both substituted after appearing to pick up muscle issues. Both walked off the pitch but looked to have sustained knocks.\n<\/p>\n

\n Mowbray is confident both are fine though and expects them to be available for Tuesday night’s trip to Bristol City.\n<\/p>\n

\n “I don’t think so,” Mowbray told BBC Radio Lancashire<\/a>.\n<\/p>\n

\n LISTEN: ROVERS 2-1 CARDIFF DEBRIEF\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\n “Montgomery was always part of the plan too. He was supposed to do an hour but he looked alright and said he was fine.\n<\/p>\n

\n “Then he started to cramp up so rather than turning that to a muscle tear, he came off.\n<\/p>\n

\n “Mori took a knock but he’s pretty resolute; he’s a strong boy. I don’t think there is an injury there, though I haven’t really spoken to them at this moment.\n<\/p>\n

\n “I don’t think there’s an issue. He wants to play, wants to train every day. Doesn’t want an easy time, he’s a machine really.\n<\/p>\n

\n “I am pretty confident he’ll be ok as well.”\n<\/p>\n

\n Tom Atcheson was rotated out of the team against Cardiff after playing four games for Northern Ireland in the international break.\n<\/p>\n

\n Mowbray wanted to play a back four at home in a winnable match and felt it was the right time to rest him.\n<\/p>\n

\n “I think at home, it was a game to play a back four,” he explained.\n<\/p>\n

\n “We didn’t want five at the back and not have enough men to hurt them in transition. It made sense to me, he’d played four games.\n<\/p>\n

\n “He had an amazing four games for Northern Ireland, no goals against, four clean sheets. Michael is very capable of producing teams that are defensively solid.\n<\/p>\n

\n “I am happy for Tom and I had a good chat with him. He understands the logic of Hayden playing.\n<\/p>\n

\n “We have two tough away games coming up so let’s see if we swap them over or add one. We will see what we do in the next ga<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Blackburn Rovers’ key men were both substituted after appearing to pick up muscle issues. Both walked off the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":799988,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[218,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-799987","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-football","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/799987","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=799987"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/799987\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/799988"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=799987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=799987"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=799987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}