Sheffield United boss Paul Heckingbottom on Blackburn Rovers win

Oliver Norwood opened the scoring just after the half-hour mark, beating Thomas Kaminski with a well-struck free-kick.

And Iliman Ndiaye struck twice in a six-minute spell during the second half to condemn Jon Dahl Tomasson’s side to a second successive 3-0 defeat on the road.

“There can be no doubt that we deserved that. I think we could easily have scored a lot more goals,” Heckingbottom told the club’s YouTube channel.

“Their keeper made some fantastic saves – some through good goalkeeping and others through just luck I think.

“We were strong, we were very good with the ball. We created a lot of chances and were really aggressive without the ball as well, which made it really difficult for Blackburn.

“The good thing is we got the goal first half when the game was played in their half. If you go in at 0-0, we would have been calling for patience from everyone.

“Blackburn would have probably still sat in and tried to play on the counter. The fact we got the goal meant they had to do something different or just give us three points.

“They changed shape a little bit and tried to press us, but we got to grips with that and continued where we left off.”

The result leaves Rovers fourth in the Championship table, having picked up nine out of a possible 15 points so far.

Tomasson’s men are back in action on Tuesday night when they head to Bradford City in the Carabao Cup second round.

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