Blackburn Rovers left it late to snatch a point at home to Swansea City on Saturday, with Bradley Johnson's deflected 95th-minute strike eventually earning Tony Mowbray's side a 2-2 draw at Ewood Park.

Things had started well for Rovers when Sam Gallagher opened the scoring 25 minutes in, before goals from Rhian Brewster and Andre Ayew - the latter from the penalty spot - either side of half time turned the game in Swansea's favour.

Substitute Danny Graham missed a big chance to equalise for Rovers against his former club when he saw a penalty saved by Freddie Woodman, before Johnson arrived late to salvage a result for the hosts.

With several other teams in the play-off picture all failing to pick up wins at the weekend, this may well go down as a missed opportunity for Rovers, although one player who will have reason to be pleased from a personal perspective is Gallagher himself.

That opening goal was the striker's first at home - and just his fifth in total - since his big-money return to Ewood Park back in the summer transfer window, and may have gone some way to lifting the pressure there has been on the striker in recent weeks.

So how good was Gallagher's overall showing for Rovers against Swansea?

Here, we put the spotlight on the striker's performance on Saturday, in order to find out.

Having come through the entire 100 minutes - including stoppage time - of the game on Saturday, Gallagher is likely to feel as though he put a decent shift in on Saturday, and the stats certainly suggest that was indeed the case.

The most encouraging aspect of Gallagher's performance will undoubtedly be his goal, with the striker showing the intent, instinct and awareness to make a run into the Swansea box to get on the end of Ryan Nyambe's pinpoint cross, which he then cooly finished with ease to open the scoring.

With five touches in the Swansea box on Saturday, Gallagher does appear to have backed himself more to get into those positions to make an impact for his side, something he did do for the opening goal, while the fact that both his shots found the target from inside the area, shows the potential he has to make an impact in the centre forward position he was restored to on Saturday.

You feel therefore, there will now be encouragement for the 24-year-old to start making those moves into the opposition penalty box even more often in the next few weeks, to get himself onto even more crosses and start scoring even more goals, just as he was brought to the club to do.

Indeed, it seems that Gallagher's desire to make an impact against Swansea, was not just restricted to his attempts to make a direct impact on the visitor's goal.

Across the course of the match, Gallagher entered into no fewer than nine offensive and 14 aerial duels, which does seem to highlight the amount of work he was willing to put in for his side on Saturday.

Admittedly, the fact that he won only a small number of those will be slightly disappointing for the striker, but it could even be argued that, given the amount he forced the Swansea defence to do, Gallagher was at least in some way responsible for forcing their backline to tire to the extent those openings from which Rovers were eventually able to drag themselves back into the game.

As a result, there is certainly an understandable sense that this performance is a step in the right direction for Gallagher at Ewood Park, and with Rovers needing to turn draws into wins sooner rather than later in the battle for a place in the play-offs, that is something that may just have come at the perfect time both for the player, and the club.