Reda Khadra is still learning the game in the eyes of Tony Mowbray who continues to issue instructions to the on-loan Brighton forward from the touchline.

Khadra failed to add to his four goals this season when he saw his second half spot-kick saved by Wes Foderingham last night. That proved to be crucial as Rovers fell to a 1-0 defeat at Bramall Lane courtesy of Ben Davies’ injury time strike.

Despite his penalty miss, Khadra was Rovers’ most threatening attacker on the night, going close with a first half free kick and a curling effort in the dying minutes of normal time.

He started on the right in the first half, before switching to the left after the break, and Mowbray said that had much to do with the 20-year-old playing on his side of pitch.

That allows the manager to issue positional instruction to Khadra to help the team out of possession, but on the ball says his talent is undoubted.

He explained: “I’m shouting at Reda, because he needs shouting at, telling where to go, he has to learn the game.

“He’s a young boy who doesn’t really know his responsibilities out of possession.

“The team will get beat if he doesn’t do his job out of possession and that’s why I keep him on my side of the pitch so I can put him in the right place.

“With the ball he’s a threat.”

Ben Brereton had converted all of Rovers’ four penalties this season heading into Wednesday night.

With the top scorer unavailable Khadra, whose shot hit the arm of John Egan which led to the award, picked up the ball and placed it on the spot.

His effort was kept out by Foderingham, replays showing him to have been off his line, but there was no re-take as Khadra was denied the chance to score his fifth goal of the season and Rovers’ first of February.

“Brereton, if he was fit, would have taken it, but Reda felt confident and wanted to take it,” Mowbray added.

“It was a good save, he left his hand there and saved it. It was frustrating for us.”