Tony Mowbray felt his side looked jaded as they fell to a 19th league defeat of the season at Sheffield Wednesday. 

Josh Windass scored the only goal of the game eight minutes before the break meaning Rovers have now lost 11 of their last 17 games. 

It was another one goal defeat for Rovers, their 15th of the season, while they failed to score for a 13th time this season.

“I thought we were a yard off it, for whatever reason, we still created one or two chances, but it’s the same story,” Mowbray said.

“A 1-0 defeat, we seem to give the opposition a goal when we’re pretty comfortable in the game and then it gives them something to hang on to, particularly in their predicament, which is what they managed to do.

“We fell a bit short.

“We haven’t scored a goal, I think that’s been the story for a lot of games.

“That final product, it’s not always the finish of course, it’s maybe the ball in, we got behind their defence a lot to be honest but then kept over-hitting the pass or not picking the right one.

“Ultimately it’s about trying to improve the individuals as we go along and when we create opportunities they pick the right pass, with the right weight of pass, and turn opportunities into goals.

“We were frustrated because there wasn’t much in the game.”

Rovers made five changes, including switching their whole midfield three, Mowbray mixing up his team from the one which beat Derby County on Friday night. Asked about his jaded comment, given he had made so many changes, Mowbray said that related to his attacking trio.

“It was from the front,” Mowbray told the Lancashire Telegraph.

“From the way we play, the front players set the tempo of our team and have all season, and to keep Gallagher and Elliott going after scoring against Derby, they’d have been on a high, but as the game went on I felt we were a yard off it.

“When we find that extra yard I think we’re a pretty potent team because we win the ball in the opposition final third and it gives us a much higher percentage chance to score goals on the transition.

“When you’re a yard off it then can nick it around the corner and get out of it and it becomes more difficult.

“The midfield have to then push in behind the strikeforce of course, but we were a yard off it at the top end of the pitch.”