'Football can be cruel. I am shocked.' - Rovers boss Ismael

Blackburn manager Valerian Ismael says his side's late defeat to Birmingham was 'on us' after two mistakes cost Rovers victory at home.

Ismael told BBC Radio Lancashire: "It is a tough one, I am shocked, football can be cruel. We played a good game, and we knew at half-time we needed to put more pressure on them, and that gave us the goal.

"It's terrible, but this loss is on us, we made two terrible mistakes and we have to be better on the set piece positioning.

"Everything was in place and then we dealt with a three-v-one situation very badly. Then we get to 11 minutes extra time and we managed ten of those perfectly.

"There were a lot of positives today, their shots were not really dangerous, we had the right structure and we got the goal we wanted.

"But football is details, and we have some questions to answer internally to make sure we deal with these situations better next time."