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Bradley Dack ensured that draw-shy Blackburn opened the new year in the thick of the play-off picture following a nervy 1-0 win over lowly Cardiff - but it was a close-run thing.
Rovers needed a lucky deflection to maintain their record of not having recorded a solitary stalemate all season.
In fact, that drawless sequence now dates back 31 league games, to early April, and helps explain how Jon Dahl Tomasson’s side is sitting pretty in third, despite having already lost an astonishing 12 times this term.
Bradley Dack scored the only goal of the game as Blackburn beat Cardiff 1-0
His strike took a deflection and flew past Ryan Allsop in the Cardiff goal
But when Dack broke the deadlock three minutes after the restart, he needed the assistance of defender Jack Simpson who provided a fortunate deflection.
It was still a well-worked, if rare, clear-cut opening from the promotion hopefuls as Jake Garrett’s long ball found Ben Brereton-Diaz on the left wing.
His quick pass found Dack, just inside the Bluebirds’ area, and his shot took a wicked
