Two hardworking teams not giving an inch is what Tony Mowbray expects from today’s game with Rotherham.

Mowbray has worked in training this week on improving Rovers’ use of the ball and hopes that can see them to victory over the Millers.

Rovers have lost just one of their previous 28 Ewood fixtures and are chasing a third straight home win against Paul Warne’s men who haven’t won on the road in the Championship in 33 attempts.

But Mowbray is wary of a team who are unbeaten in their last four matches, including two on the road, as well as beating play-off chasing Swansea City last weekend.

With a two week international break on the horizon though, Rovers will hope, as they did last month with three points at Bolton, to go in to it on a high.

“I think it’s a really dangerous game,” Mowbray said.

“I have quoted their form, they beat Swansea City last weekend and we ourselves felt the quality Swansea possess.

“I watched that game and Swansea had a lot of possession of the ball, dominant, but Rotherham got two really strange penalty kicks late on.

“But what it does show is that they can hang in there and make life difficult.

“What I do know is these are two really hardworking, honest, football teams striving 100 per cent best every single week.

“What we will face is a team that will run and match us in the fighting qualities and get stuck in and not give an inch. We have to be ready for that part of the game.”

Rovers came out on top in a tight game against QPR last weekend courtesy of a late Bradley Dack penalty.

Mowbray described the game as ‘horrible’ and ‘ugly’, with neither side at their best.

On what he learned, he added: “I think if you’re a manager who is always saying fine margins, or that we could have won, could have done this, should have done this.

“Too many of them, then you’re probably going to be at the wrong end of the table.

“It’s important you don’t want to rely on a little bit of good fortune. You hope that you win the ones you should be winning, and occasionally you’re going to win a really tight one.

“They’re all important matches.”