SAM Allardyce admitted that David Dunn was taken off as a precaution against Chelsea on Sunday.

The Rovers midfielder was replaced by Brett Emerton after just 56 minutes at Ewood Park, but the Rovers manager did it to prevent injury.

 

"I wasn't liking Dunny stretching his calves and things like that," said Allardyce.

"It was telling me that if he carried on he might tweak a muscle again, so we took him off and put Morten in there and then of course we felt Niko had battled a lonely battle so we put a fresh pair of legs in with Jason Roberts.

"So in the end it worked very well."