PAUL Lambert confirmed after Blackburn Rovers’ third straight defeat that Leicester City will allow attacker Tom Lawrence to extend his loan until the end of the season.

And, following the 1-0 loss at Cardiff City yesterday, the Rovers boss also revealed that defender Doneil Henry is on his way back to West Ham United.

Henry’s and Lawrence’s loans run out today and Lambert said: “Doneil’s on his way back to West Ham; Tom, we’ll try and do something.

“We’ve spoken to Leicester and they are happy for him to come here for the rest of the season, which is good.  We’re happy to extend it so we’ll try and work on that in the next few days.

“I spoke to Tom in the last few days and he seems quite happy so we’ll try and get that done.”

Lawrence, playing at the tip of a midfield diamond, was recalled to the Rovers side which went down to Cardiff to extend their run without a win and a goal to four matches.

Lambert felt there was little in the contest until Joe Mason’s 58th-minute strike, which came about after a series of individual errors.

Goalkeeper Jason Steele and Shane Duffy tried to play the ball out of defence when they should have cleared their lines.

And, while the ball eventually reached Lawrence, he lost possession in the centre of the park, before it was moved out wide to Craig Noone who, for the countless time, was shown the inside by Markus Olsson.

Noone’s shot was cleared off the line by Duffy but the rebound broke to Mason and he netted his fifth league goal in five games against Rovers.

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Lambert, who was critical of his side’s ‘decision making’ in the final third, said: “I thought we were on top and looked comfortable.

“Even when Shane made the clearance there wasn’t any great danger. Noone has come in half a dozen times and that’s disappointing because when you see things, and you look at things, he’s all left side; everybody knows he’s left side.

“He gets a shot away and the rebound gets put in so from our point of view that was disappointing.”

But Lambert insisted Rovers were Cardiff’s equals up until that point and felt they should have been awarded two penalties, the first of which saw midfielder Hope Akpan booked for diving when it appeared his shirt had been tugged.

“I don’t think any team dominated the game,” said Lambert. “We had it and then they had in. There wasn’t too much between us.

“We were getting a grip of the midfield, after changing the system a little bit, and there wasn’t too much to concern ourselves with.

“I thought we had two claims for a penalty which I thought were. How he’s booked Hope (for the first one), I don’t know.

“I can’t say what I really want to say otherwise I’ll get in trouble but there were some decisions that were bizarre.

“You’ve got to come through this period and take what’s coming out way.

“But it also shows what we have to do in January.”