Tony Mowbray has given Rovers a belief they can beat anyone in the Championship, according to Darragh Lenihan.

The Irishman’s first goal of the season saw Rovers in to the top six after victory over a well fancied Leeds United side at Ewood Park.

It was a second consecutive win for Rovers who face tough away trips this week, starting with tomorrow’s visit to Swansea City before West Bromwich Albion on Saturday.

Mowbray talked down Rovers’ ambitions this season, with the campaign only 13 games in, but the 24-year-old says the manager deserves great credit for the job he’s doing.

“That comes from the manager,” Lenihan said of the feeling within the camp.

“He’s given us great confidence to go out there with belief.

“If we can beat Leeds then we can beat any team in the league and I don’t see why we can’t go in to every game thinking ‘why can’t we get the three points?’

“Some games will be more difficult than others, but with the group we’ve had, I feel we are better than ever.

“We take each game as it comes. As soon as the game was over, that’s done and dusted and we were thinking straight away about Swansea on Tuesday.

“The manager has said the same things, we’re not getting ahead of ourselves because things, good or bad, can change very quickly in this league.

“We keep going, and we’ll see what happens at the end of the season.”

Lenihan headed in a 69th minute Craig Conway corner to hand Rovers victory, after Danny Graham had put them infront in just the second minute from a Harrison Reed delivery.

Pleased to see the hard work on the training ground come good, Lenihan added: “It’s a brilliant result. We know how tough the game was going to be in the week and we prepared very well for it.

“We didn’t leave any stone unturned and you could see that on the pitch.

“We worked on that corner kick for the first goal and luckily Danny got his head on it.

“We kept grinding it out, we knew they are going to have spells in the game when they would put us under pressure but we hung in there and I think we were a deserved winner.”

Lenihan grabbed his first of the season, and second of his career, to see Rovers to a second home win, having gone close in the draw with Nottingham Forest last month.

He added: “I’ve been getting in good situations and being getting my head on things, especially the one against Nottingham Forest where the keeper made a great save so I felt it was coming.

“I had to be in the position at the right time and thankfully that was the case.”

The win came courtesy of plenty of hard work from Rovers, who came up an athletic and slick Leeds United outfit who started the day in fourth.

And Lenihan praised the contribution of Adam Armstrong in victory, adding: “Leeds’ running stats are the highest in the league so the manager said we had to match them physically, but don’t go away from what we’re good at.

“We play high intensity football and I thought we did that quite well.

“Adam Armstrong was excellent, he had a great start and that gave the crowd a lift and gave us all confidence.

“His pace, when he beat the full back he then went and beat the centre back and he was unlucky with a couple of opportunities.

“On another day he could have got two or three goals because he was fantastic.”