Andi Weimann believes the next run of Championship fixtures will decide Blackburn Rovers' future after a morale-boosting win at Cardiff City.

The Austrian forward scored his first goals since August as Rovers broke off for the third and final international break of 2024 in ninth place.

When Rovers return, it is a four-month slog until March, when the games will come thick and fast. It was, therefore, imperative for Rovers to sign off with a win having been left frustrated with results recently.

There are only three points separating the top six and Rovers. Performances would suggest that the margin could and maybe should be closer too.

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Weimann believes that the next few months will be decisive in deciding Rovers' ambitions for the season.

"It's a break now for two weeks so we didn't want to feel like Wednesday where we were frustrated going into that period," he told RoversTV.

"That's where the Championship isn't nice. It's good to go into the break with something that we deserve after the last few performances.

"When you come off and you're sat there and the team is hanging on a bit, it can be a horrible feeling. It feels like time is standing still but then we got the clincher. Then you can relax after that.

"I know it's very tight at the moment, it always is in the Championship. We have this last break and then four months through. That's when you can decide where you end up. We need the squad and team together to attack it.

"The next three months, the Christmas period, that will decide where we're going to be. We have a feel-good factor now around the place."

Rovers' dressing room was a frustrated and angry place to be on Wednesday night after failing to convert their chances against Stoke. It was a home defeat that never should have been after 25 shots on target.

But that anger was used as fuel in the Welsh capital. Weimann capped off two fantastic team moves to reach 100 senior goals in his career, with Rovers getting the result their performance merited.

"We haven't been playing badly, we were frustrated against Stoke because we should have won the game," he insisted.

"We have been talking about doing what we did again, passing and moving and we know that's how we can create chances. We had to be more clinical and we were today.

"I think it's been coming. We know we're going in the right direction, it was just one of those days. We did it again at Cardiff and it paid off.

"The first one, we kept the ball for two minutes and 42 passes. A brilliant team move and that's what we wanted to do today, control possession. I just had to tap it in!

"We're working on these things on the training pitch but we have to be brave enough to do it. We will stick to what we want to do and the two goals showed what we're capable of."

"When I made my debut 14 years ago, you never know what'll happen in your career," he added on hitting a century of goals.

"To still be playing at this level is brilliant. To get the goals and be playing week in, week out, is brilliant. 

"The two goals today were tap-ins but I do think it's a skill, to be in the right position. You have to be able to score and see the game develop.

"I try to get myself in a position where a defender can't mark you and then you hope the ball comes. I got that and was picked out brilliantly. 

"I enjoyed it, I've scored a few goals against Cardiff, I like going there! You get some stick and it's nice to score against them when that happens."