Arnor Sigurdsson will only play once for Iceland during the interntional break after a request from Blackburn Rovers head coach Jon Dahl Tomasson.

The forward has made a fantastic impact since returning to fitness after a bad groin injury. Sigurdsson missed three months of action but has scored three goals in four starts since returning to the fold.

Rovers have tried to manage his work load carefully whilst also struggling with injuries at the top end of the pitch. Sigurdsson was recalled to the starting XI against Queens Park Rangers and showed his quality with two fantastic goals.

He’ll now join up with the national team though Rovers would’ve preferred for him to stay at Brockhall and have a rest with the other senior players. However, Tomasson revealed an agreement has been struck with the Iceland manager to manage his minutes.

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“We know he can score goals,” Tomasson said. “He took his goals excellent and it’s important to have players that are clinical. It’s what we have been missing in the last weeks. Scoring those goals is good.

“He is not totally fit yet, we know that. He’s travelling to Iceland now and I spoke with the coach yesterday. Hopefully, he is only playing one game not two games.

“The coach will do that, I know him very well. We want him scoring goals and up to speed which is important. I’d have rather kept him here, I think he needs a rest.

“He’s played a lot in this period and I have probably used him too much when you look where he’s coming from.”

Sigurdsson’s second strike, a lovely curling effort from outside the box, will take most of the headlines but the movement for his first showed a goal-scorer’s instinct that Rovers have lacked. With the team in need of goals, that sort of instinct in the box is encouraging.

As a former striker himself, Tomasson was encouraged by Sigurdsson’s movement for the goal and revealed Rovers had targeted that area as a weakness for QPR.

“For a left winger to come that far into the box, we have spoken about that and that is was a weakness of the opponent,” he said. “Coming so far off the left-hand side, it is really good movement. It was a perfect attack, a good connection and a good ball.”