Match Day Thread QPR v Hull City

While I'm glad Jak is concerned about the dropping deep after taking the lead, we were also giving up a lot of chances before we scored too..

 

Jist to be clear I was taking the piss, haven’t listened to Burnsy since he was on Blunderside, and no idea what he’s said.

 

It’ll be typical us to go and win these “harder” games next time out.

 

Simp.

 

Second best pretty much throughout.

Our forward line polished a bit of a turd today.

I don't think we were really at it.

 

Kind of mad to think Joffy has as many goals as Diame or Jelavic scored.

Also for all the hype, am I missing something or wasn't that Slater's 201st appearance for us in all comps? Coyle's 200th coming up against Ipswich though.

 

Slater's 200th appearance.

 

Desperately need McBurnie back, absolutely nothing holding the ball upfront and as mentioned prior helps out with defending set plays too.

 

When will he be back though ? Seemed like a fairly minor injury at the time
but it's just dragging on and on

 

possibly for stoke.. but i bet that changes again

 

We let two decent back four players go in the summer, Jones and McLoughlin.

 

Does standing up clapping in front of a radio or laptop count?

 

We do need him back but we're still scoring goals. I think we've got enough to shore up midfield and defence without having to over-rely on McB's undoubted defensive qualities. I think it's equally if not more important to get Lundstram back.
Also good to see Destan score again. Like his other goal, put it in the right place for him and he puts it away, no messing.

 

Tigerbase has him at 201, which is why I was asking. Of course that could be wrong.

 

Totally agree with the above.

 

It would be ... but ...... I sense they will be the proverbial 'step too far' and realistically fear we could well lose all 3. We've done incredibly well considering who we've had missing, and, although we may see 3 of the 5 (McB, Belloumi, Lundstram) feature in the match day squad they won't be up to speed and will likely only play bit parts if any. And now we lose Crooks too. January onwards could be quite something IF we can get and keep them all fit.

 

Here ya go Syd, try this.
Hull City ace Regan Slater eyeing success on milestone outing at QPR - Hull Live

 

That was an error on tigerbase.

 

A lot has been said about our injuries and whilst they are significant, do they account for the defensive issues?

I actually think we’ve been one of the best attacking teams in the league, especially on the counter, despite our injuries. We’re also the second-worst defensively. We tend to concede a lot of goals regardless of what personnel we have in defence and midfield as well. Hadžiahmetović and Lundstram weren’t a great pairing, unless I’m misremembering. Drameh is good defending 1v1 on the ground but terrible in the air. Egan has actually been quite disappointing as he’s not been the steady, experienced head next to Hughes that I thought he would be. We know Hughes is quality on the ball and very aggressive out of possession and likes to step up to win headers, intercept the ball, make blocks etc. Ironically, he needs a player like Alfie Jones next to him. I’m guessing Ajayi was supposed to be that player but his injury record makes him unreliable.

The last time we shipped this many goals was under Shota when he had Figueiredo next to Greaves. Rosenior’s solution was to switch to a back four of Coyle, Jones, McLoughlin and Greaves with Greaves playing a hybrid left-back/centre-back role. Dropping Giles for Famewo is out of the question so that leaves the right-back tucking in as an extra centre-back in possession.

We already play this 3-2-5 shape in possession but with both fullbacks getting forward and the defensive mid dropping as a centre-back. The solution could be to have Coyle play as an extra centre-back, Giles gets forward as usual and Hadžiahmetović sits in front of the defence instead of dropping into defence.

 

We did quite well for a chunk of games when Ajayi was playing regularly I thought. Up until derby we seemed a lot tighter.