Winning must become 'an addiction' for Rovers - Ismael

Valerien Ismael wants to see winning "become an addiction" after Blackburn Rovers beat Lancashire rivals Preston North End in the Championship.

He told BBC Radio Lancashire: "In the Derby County game [2-1 defeat], in the second half we were on the front foot, we dominated, we were dominant again. It's just that consistency in the performance we were not able to do."

"I think if it's only 1-0 against Derby we would be able to come back into the game so we made it difficult in the first half. Southampton [2-1 win] we made it the same. So we spoke in the last two weeks about that consistency in our performance. This is what we needed."

He added: "We are a team, we are on the front foot, we play with energy and this is our DNA and we have to stay that way. If you win or lose a game, this is football, sometimes you cannot influence.

"What we can influence is what we perform on the pitch and that was what was our focus for the last two weeks and it for sure gave confidence to the players because winning games is one thing.

"Every team is able to win games, it's all about the next one, to win three, four, five, six, seven, eight games in a row, it has to become an addiction and now hopefully we can do the next step next week against QPR."

You can listen to more from Valerien Ismael on BBC Sounds.