Paul Heckingbottom on Blackburn Rovers

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00:00You mentioned Blackburn's counter-attack threat of their signings, that some have helped that, or were they that anyway?

00:06Ojasi scored a few, hasn't he?

00:08Yeah, and he's looked bright. If he comes as a striker, I could imagine him playing off another striker as well, the way he plays.

00:15But certainly, when he picks the ball up and gets turned, the ball doesn't seem to slow him down.

00:19Obviously, Dolan's quick enough, Hedges, Wyman was always a counter-attacking player when he was at Bristol.

00:28Yeah, they've added to it, but it's more as well the tactical set-up in how that mid-block they like to play in

00:35and deny a lot of space centrally and then be aggressive from that position.

00:39It means that when they win it, the space in behind the opposition's back line,

00:43but also they're still close enough to goal to be a threat from where they win the ball.

00:47You can see they do a lot of work on that and it's had a big influence on a lot of the games.