I’d take it as a compliment. You’ve absolutely perfected the art of ****housing. Our ****housing is years behind.
It should've been Lumley apologising for the first goal He must've seen before passing the ball how close to the edge of the box and how many Preston players there were near to Scowen. Just because someone calls for the balk doesn't mean you pass it to them! However not the first or last individual mistake in a shambolic Rs performance. Wrong substitutions yesterday and a midfield that would've struggled against an U8s team. Eze really doesn't like playing against physical sides who give him little space
Not that it makes a huge difference (though goals change games) but Scowen was held back with two arms and clearly impeded which allowed their man to get to the ball first and score. Should have been disallowed and a free kick to QPR .
Don't know we do have quite a few Southern based fans but we have a lot who like a long day in the Capital taking in the cultural sites, mainly pubs,train always seems to have a lot on it
This was very reminiscent of the Reading game, we started slowly and showed no signs of urgency. The truth of the matter is that Preston were better in every department and played an almost perfect away game. They did their homework and nullified us all over the pitch. We had no out ball whether we tried to go short or long or anywhere in between. The concern for me is that we had no answer to remedy the matter and SM didn't know what to do to get us playing. We've been really poor for three out of our four last league games, I can't believe that Luongo going on International duty is the reason why. Something doesn't feel right at the moment and after only five minutes yesterday I knew we were going to get beaten, albeit not quite so convincingly.
I don’t think anything is wrong. Just we’ve been a bit found out as slightly one-dimensional and some of the players haven’t had a break they very obviously needed.
I think a lot of it is to do with the midfield pairing. Not being strong in this area of the pitch destabilises the team's core and prevents you from controlling the game. It renders you useless regarding attacking prowess and also in protecting your defence. This results in a great big bunch of nothingness as witnessed in our last two home league games and away last week.
Even with Luongo playing we've struggled to get past teams that play a high press. The difference between now and our purple patch of games was that our defence was pretty much impenetrable with Cameron in front of it (the brains alongside the brawn of our centre backs IMO), Eze was buying us time and set pieces to set up attacks and Wzsolek was continually providing width and options that the opposition needed to cover. They managed to keep the Pole very quiet yesterday and with him went our attacking threat. The less said about Eze the better.
Definitely Neil gets the Manager of the day award. did his homework all week while Steve was working on us scoring lots of goals!!!!!!!!!!……..On a serious note although I like a settled team he cant be hard to stop us playing and its up to McLaren and his staff to see whether a player needs a rest...
Brought my Sister yesterday. Her first visit in 5 years and she has to witness such a disappointing performance. Think it might be 10 years before she is back again lol. Shocking performance from the whole team. We need Luongo and our injured players back asap.
Who would have thought that Luongo, who always seems to me to be a willing runner and tackler but very limited on everything else, could appear to be so important to Hair Island’s set up?
We were saying at half-time that we needed some more pace and to press higher. I'd have swapped Cousins and Eze for Oteh and Osayi-Samuel and gone 4-3-3, but instead we got Matt Smith and the game was effectively over. Dreadful.
