Blackburn Rovers caretaker manager Gary Bowyer has praised his players for their "important" 3-1 away win at Barnsley on Saturday afternoon.

Bowyer, who is in temporary charge after Henning Berg was sacked two days ago, saw Blackburn win after what he called a "tough couple of days".

"It was an important win for us, it has been a tough couple of days," Sky Sports News quotes Bowyer as saying.

"The players were good in training and they have carried it through into the game. We worked with them on the shape yesterday and they just got on with the job.

"There was a good feeling in the dressing room at half-time because of the level of performance and I just told them if they wanted this feeling at full-time they had to play the way they played in the first half."

Barnsley manager Keith Hill was sacked in the wake of the result.

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Matt Domm