Rovers were at their efficient best, workmanlike out of possession while the matchwinners at the top end of the pitch kept their half of the bargain. 

Tony Mowbray’s side are unbeaten at Ewood since September, and while things haven’t been smooth all the way, they are finding a way over the winning line and coming up with the answers to the questions that are being asked of them.

Adam Armstrong eased any growing nerves with a stunning finish as he ran on to a Bradley Dack lay-off to make it 2-0 at the midway point of the second half while his second in the dying moments added gloss to the win.

Dack had come up with the opener on the stroke of half-time, heading home a superb Charlie Mulgrew free-kick, and in the big moments in matches Rovers are making them go their way.

The timing of their goals could hardly have been better, and although forced in to plenty of defensive work, two fine goal-saving blocks apart, they restricted the visitors to just one shot on target.

Armstrong’s second goal was the artistry to Darragh Lenihan soldiering work in the heart of the defence which helped clock up a 13th clean sheet of the campaign, but only a third of 2018.

While some fans may crave a complete performance of 90 minute dominance, that is rarely at this stage of the season when so much is at stake.  Though sloppy in possession at times in the first-half, to their credit they weren’t shy at going and winning it back.

Their numbers are impressive. No team in the EFL has more points than Rovers, Luton are the only team to have scored more and only Championship leaders Wolves can boast more victories. No team has lost fewer.

The 2-0 defeat at Plymouth in February, which ended their unbeaten run at 18 matches, apart Rovers have even looked in danger of losing, it has merely been about finding a way to victory.

Here, Dack stung the palms of Joe Lumley early on with a rasping half-volley from a Danny Graham knockdown inside four minutes before seeing an effort from 12 yards deflected over the bar.

But it was Blackpool who had the best opening of the first-half. A left-wing cross somehow found its way to the far post where ex-Rover Nathan Delfouneso looked certain to score, only to be denied by a flying Derrick Williams block.

Rovers escaped loud penalty appeals when the ball appeared to hit Graham on the arm before Armstrong wasted the best chance of the opening half when his chip from 12 yards didn’t come down in time after collecting an Evans through ball.

So the relief was there when a disjointed first-half saw Rovers edge ahead through Dack’s 15th of an outstanding campaign.

Delfouneso and Viv Soloman-Otabor provided a threat for the visitors as balls whizzed across the Rovers six yard line.

But Armstrong’s moment of quality, which was preceded and followed by wayward efforts off target, put the game beyond doubt.

The Seasiders tried in vain to find a way back in to things, Curtis Tilt going mightily close to setting up a grandstand finish, only for Graham to be well placed to clear off the line from the defender’s header.

And the scoreline was given a ‘comfortable win’ looked to it when Armstrong drifted in from the left to meet an Elliott Bennett pull-back and fire in to the far corner.

Rovers continue to look in their rear-view mirror given the games in hand of the chasing pack, but they can do nothing more than take care of their half of the equation. Three in to two doesn’t go in the race for automatic promotion. But three goals and three points certainly boosted Rovers’ chances of not being the odd one out.