Opta Stats: QPR v Manchester United : Opta : UK & Ireland Football Opta / Michael Lintorn / 14 December 2011 / Leave a Comment Nani scored twice as Manchester United defeated Wolves last week Manchester United have an opportunity to at least briefly push Manchester City off the top of the table on Sunday lunchtime. These Opta trends hint that they will take it... Manchester United have won eight and lost none of the last 11 meetings with QPR in all competitions. They have also won four and lost none of their last seven trips to Loftus Road in all competitions. QPR have won just one of their seven Premier League home matches this season - the joint-fewest in the division. Man United are unbeaten in their last eight Premier League away games (W5 D3), but two of their last three away defeats in the Premier League have been in London. Man United have won just six of their last 21 Premier League away games in London (W6 D7 L8). Manchester United have lost just one of their last 18 Premier League matches (W13 D4 L1) and won five of the last six (W5 D1). The champions have scored exactly one goal in each of their last five Premier League away games, winning the last three 1-0. QPR have won one and lost four of their last six Premier League matches. Heidar Helguson has scored six goals in his last seven Premier League appearances. 79% of the goals Man United have conceded have come in the second half, the highest proportion in the top flight.
I don't remember the specifics of the game either, and haven't read any unbiased reports, so I don't know why so much time was added on. Perhaps their were injuries? I remember the Sheffield Wednesday match where the ref had to go off injured and be replaced by one of the linesmen, resulting in seven minutes of injury time and us scoring the winner after about five or six of those! Either way, I'm still not entirely sure why everyone is so convinced we have all this influence over the referees and linesmen! I wish we did - we could have won the title in 2010 as well if the refs hadn't made such a hash of both games against Chelsea!
You, a Man U fan, has remembered how many points QPR were from safety and how many points they got in their run-in after 15 years?? Now that IS impressive!! (Sounds like a Google job to me). At the time that instance was a hammer blow and there wouldn't have been as much injury time added for any other Club, absolutely no doubt about it. One law for the rich another for the poor
Hmm... I think God could be a QPR fan - and he doesn't want to see Howard Webb spoil this one for us - looks like light SNOW is currently predicted for London for tomorrow, with possible heavy snow predicted on Saturday morning... If there's enough and it settles, could see the game on Sunday postponed? (might be wishful thinking!)
I remember cos it was the year City went down I dunno about the injury time thing - Arsenal vs Liverpool ended up with about 12 minutes added on last year, Arsenal scored after eight of those and Liverpool after 11! Everton also scored two goals against us deep in injury time last season (92nd and 93rd minuted IIRC). And I'm sure there have been some lower league matches with around 20 minutes added on after serious injuries. I think most people only notice when Utd get lots of injury time cos we generally score in it, whilst most other teams don't - if we have 15 minutes added on no one would care as long as we didn't score in it! Tho' I do wonder if the whole "Utd always score" thing gets into referees' heads and they start thinking that they need to play all the injury time for us as we're the ones most likely to use it.
Mackie: QPR aiming for all three points against Man United http://www.talksport.co.uk/radio/sp...r-aiming-all-three-points-against-man-united?
One of your boys said you were going to do us a favour this weekend on the match thread last week. Here's hoping.
7 - Eric Cantona (Man Utd) And I’ll have to continue holding my stomach now as we move on to the player I hated most of any in our time in the Premiership. We know all about what Cantona was – maverick, genius, flawed, brilliant, turned a game at Old Trafford in 1993 where QPR had led through Bradley Allen completely on its head with a one man second half rescue act etc etc yadda yadda. Let’s just recount the story of the infamous goal at Loftus Road and move on because I couldn’t stand the twat then and time has done little to dim my disdain. QPR were propping up the bar in the last chance saloon when Man Utd came to Shepherds Bush in 1996. Games were running out for Ray Wilkins’ terribly naïve side and it was, by this point, the stage where unlikely results against superior opponents were required. There were none more superior at that time than Man Utd who arrived in the Bush chasing another league title – it wasn’t quite top v bottom, as whipping boys Bolton propped the table up, but it was as near as damn it. But QPR actually played well. Not only did they play well but they led going into injury time. Danny Dichio picked up a pass from Ian Holloway and curled it round Schmeichel – Dennis Irwin dived full length to clear it but could only divert it into the roof of the net. Rangers survived for the rest of the half and thought they’d done it. But referee Robbie Hart played, and played, and played, and played. We’ve all tutted and rolled our eyes at this ‘Fergie time’ concept over the years but this actually became farcical. Finally, just as the second reading of the classified football results was about to begin, Cantona stole in round the back and headed in an equaliser at which point Hart blew his final whistle before Rangers had even had a chance to move the ball out of the centre circle from the kick off. Robbie Hart is long since retired, the Durham official was in his last season at the time and legend has it that he was actually a Man Utd fan who was given the game as a special dispensation as one of his final outings. I don’t believe that, but I do believe I’d have difficulty applying the brakes in my car if I saw him crossing the road. He, and Cantona, broke my heart that afternoon and fostered a deep seated loathing of Manchester United that continues to engulf me to this day. If the residents of Barnet were wondering who that was wrapped in a Barcelona flag, playing Queen’s Barcelona at ear splitting volume, and hanging out of the window shouting pidgin Spanish in front of a pub of Cockney Reds during the recent hilarious Champions League final then look no further. It was me, and I’d do it again. http://www.fansnetwork.co.uk/football/queensparkrangers/fb_news.php?storyid=12826 4 – Cantona’s 96th minute equaliser For the second time this week I find myself writing about the stand out worst moment of my childhood. I went to junior school in Hampton Hill where the majority of the in mates supported either Tottenham (possibly fair enough) or Manchester United (unforgivably). What the hell is the point in supporting a team that plays 250 miles away that you never get to see just because it wins all the time? What a soulless existence. The fact that they’d never even driven past Old Trafford, never mind been inside, didn’t shame the horrible little bastards enough into not waiting for those of us who supported proper football teams and went to see them with our dads (when dads could still afford to take their sons to the football) on the playground on Monday mornings to take the piss out of us because of our latest defeat at Oldham. I hated them, and Man Utd, even before they broke my heart in 1996. My first QPR game was Southampton away in the FA Cup in January 1992, a week after the famous 4-1 success at Old Trafford. From that moment on the chocolate box terrace at The Dell I had longed to see this blue and white hooped team beat Man Utd so I could go into school and stick it to the glory hunting Cockney Reds. We’d gone close – only some fine goalkeeping from Schmeichel denied us more than a 0-0 draw at Old Trafford in 1992/93 and a season later Bradley Allen gave us the lead before Cantona turned it on and we lost 2-1. Later that season Clive Wilson put is in front but we lost 3-2 and a year later Ferdinand scored the first and last goal in another 3-2 defeat at Loftus Road and missed an absolute sitter to make it 3-3. We just couldn’t get over the line and fulfil my dream of beating the scum of the earth and my existence on the concrete wilderness of Hampton Hill Junior School’s playground remained a downtrodden and lonely one. Even the year four teacher who supported Tranmere Rovers gently mocked me when the mood so took him. In 1996 there was added importance to the game, because QPR were not so much standing on the trap door at this stage as dangling freely down the shaft and clinging on by their finger nails. Unlikely victories against tough opponents were required, and when Danny Dichio put Rangers ahead, not altogether undeservedly, in the second half it seemed that the moment for me and the team had arrived. I’ve recounted what happened next, Cantona heading home so deeply into injury time that Sunday morning was almost dawning to deny us and the referee blowing for full time almost the second the ball hit the back of the net, once already this week and will not go into detail again. I cried. I remember slumping over the hoardings at the front of the Q Block and crying, and sitting in the Goldhawk afterwards and crying, and crying on the tube home. I will always, always, always hate those bastards. http://www.fansnetwork.co.uk/footbal...?storyid=12837
Ferdinand undergoes sub-zero treatment ahead of Manchester United clash By Jacob Murtagh Dec 15 2011 Add a comment Recommend inShare ANTON Ferdinand is using radical treatment in a bid to get him fit for Sunday's clash with Manchester United. The QPR defender is 'touch and go' to be ready for the visit of the Premier League champions after limping out of last weekend's defeat at Liverpool with a hamstring problem. However, Ferdinand is undergoing a course of kriotherapy, which sees the body subjected to freezing temperatures, to try and speed up the recovery process. The therapy restricts blood to your vital organs during treatment, which gives oxygenated blood to the injured areas after you leave the room to accelerate muscle recovery. Fitz Hall and Matt Connolly are on standby to partner Danny Gabbidon in the heart of defence if Ferdinand fails to recover in time.
Surely Luke is in the frame for CB if the krio doesn't work, with Orr, or even Mackie or Dyer (if fit) at RB
