Albion striker Ishmael Miller has dedicated his thunderous strike against Blackburn to his mother and thanked his family for helping him beat the boo-boys.

Miller struck his second goal in five days in the Baggies’ 2-2 draw with Rovers to cement a return to goalscoring form, just five weeks after he was booed by a small minority of fans at Middlesbrough.

The 21-year-old was criticised for “going it alone” on two occasions when he could have set up simple goals for team mates but he insisted the negative reaction never dented his confidence.

He said: “Not really. We won the game and I know the fans expect a lot from me. If I get the ball on the halfway line and there are two players in front of me, they expect me to beat the two players.

“If I beat two players sometimes I will score and sometimes I can miss. On Saturday the fans were behind me. I am trying to help the team, I love the club and I will try my best.”

Miller offered a glimpse of his undoubted potential when he blasted the Baggies ahead against Blackburn with a fine goal.

His immediate reaction was to point to the stand to salute his nearest and dearest – especially mother Grace.

The striker said: “It was for my mum. She was there with all my family. When things weren’t going well this season and I was getting chances but they weren’t going for me, all my family were there behind me. I was just trying to repay them for that.”

Miller said his family’s support merely helped strengthen his own belief that his luck in front of goal would turn. His strike against Blackburn followed a first Premier League goal at Newcastle United last Tuesday.

He said: “If you’re getting chances and they’re not falling for you then you get frustrated. I was always getting chances and I knew they would go in.

“Hopefully I am now on a bit of a roll, where I can score five or six goals on the trot. I am trying to help the team out as much as possible and you can only ask that a striker gets chances. If you don’t put them away then so be it.

“I am still a young striker at 21. The more I play the more I will be able to learn how to finish a difficult chance or how to manipulate the ball where I want it to be to shoot.

“I am just trying to improve as a player. As I said on Tuesday, I knew goals were going to come. As a striker if you get chances goals will come. It’s the law of averages.

“You know if you keep getting chances in a game goals will come and I always kept belief in my own abilities. Saturday wasn’t my best goal ever. It was all right but hopefully I’ve got a few more goals coming.

“I just try to score as many goals as possible and help the team out as much as I possibly can. I could have had another one but it hit the post and skimmed off. It was going towards the net and then it skipped wide.

“It was nice to get another goal on Saturday and I am just trying to score as many as possible. I’m trying to help keep the team in the league. It’s the best league in the world and I am just trying to help keep the team in it for as long as possible.”

Miller admitted Blackburn’s late equaliser through former Wolves midfielder Keith Andrews was a sickening blow that took the gloss off the joy of his goal.

He said: “I felt sick when I saw their goal go in. It was the worst feeling ever. I can’t even describe the feeling when I saw the goal. I felt so sorry for the team, the club and the fans.

“It was a bad moment. It doesn’t matter that I scored because it’s all about the team. I am just trying to do a job and score as many as I can.

“We needed the three points and it didn’t work out like that. Hopefully we’ll be able to go on, keep our heads up and get as many points as we can from here on in.

“When we were 1-0 down we were all over them like a rash and then we went 2-1 up. The mentality of the players changed a bit. Maybe nerves kicked in a little bit, I don’t know.”