Harry Pickering insisted Blackburn Rovers can't dwell on a season of disappointment and must ensure they secure survival at Leicester City.

The battle to avoid the drop has gone to the final day. Rovers have their own fate in their hands, knowing a point at the Champions-elect will be enough to stay in the Championship. A defeat may not be fatal, depending on results elsewhere, meaning it's likely to be a nervy afternoon.

Rovers could have wrapped up survival with victory in either of the last two home games. The form at Ewood Park this season has been a major issue, winning only six of 23 matches.

Pickering admitted the season overall hasn't been to standard but insists the dressing room won't focus on that until after their future is secure next weekend. 

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"This wasn't the plan for anyone. This season has been a disappointment and we have to face the fact that we are where we are," Pickering admitted.

"Once the season ends, we can look back at where things went wrong but for now, we are focused on ensuring we do the job.

"We have to accept where we are. We can't look back and think 'what if?'

"We will be focused on training and executing our game plan. We have a strong squad, we will stick together. We were used to midweek games so it'll give us a chance to work on areas to improve.

"We have to focus on a normal week. Focus on the game plan to try and beat them. I don't know if it will make much difference whether they're playing for anything, they have very good, Premier League, players.

"We know they're a good team, they're (going to be) in the Premier League and they have a lot of good players. We have beaten big teams like them before. We know that we can do it.

"The main thing for us is to concentrate on our game, we can't affect other results going on. If we do our job, we know we've done it and that's all we can do."

Rovers did plenty right against Coventry City but couldn't find a breakthrough. They had 30 shots on target, hit the woodwork, but were held to a goal-less draw.

That feels particularly damaging against ten men but the performance was a distinct improvement on the 3-1 defeat to Sheffield Wednesday.

Pickering said the dressing room was disappointed not to finish the job but felt that Rovers did a lot of things right but weren't clinical enough.

"We are disappointed not to score but after last Sunday, we can take a lot of positives from the performance," he explained.

"We did the right things, got in the right areas but it wouldn't fall for us. We can take that confidence into next week and try to get something from the game.

"We knew they had quality in the forward area, we saw that against Manchester United, but we knew how we could hurt them. We created a lot of chances but they didn't go in for us.

"The red card gives you a boost, you know you can find the spare man and I think we did that. We created the chances and on another day, one could've gone in.

"The sending-off makes it feel like we should've won. We created the chances but it didn't happen. 

"The message at half-time was to start the half was intensity and make them struggle when they play out. I thought we did it for large portions and try to be more clinical, with the final ball or the finish."