Match Day Thread Birmingham vs QPR

Barnsley away, Charlton at home and Reading away.
Dare we dream for 9 points?!

 

No

 

No the Fakes will play crap until we meet them...then they will play their cup final, like they seem to do every time against us.
Although 9 points would be great.

 

Obviously we need to take each game one at a time.

But if we are to make real "progress", then we need to be at least "competitive" in such matches.

I really like what I have seeen in our last three matches and really hope that we can continu to build upon this.

I would target to remain "unbeaten" and "5-7 points" from these three games.

But as a long term R's supporter, one gets to naturally "manage expectations".

 

Great, professional performance. Cameron was my MOM. Amos not far behind. But, if we are to play one up front, especially away , it has to be Hugill ahead of Wells.
Against better teams, we would have been punished for not holding the ball up.
2-0 away, against anyone, is not to be sniffed at. Well done MW and everyone.

 

Ask yourself, what team do you support?

 

Clives' report on the match. Well worth a read!

https://www.fansnetwork.co.uk/football/queensparkrangers/news/51455//?scrollto=post67201

Bright's brilliance lights up Birmingham - Report

Thursday, 12th Dec 2019 12:06 by Clive Whittingham

Queens Park Rangers equalled last season’s record of five away wins before the halfway point of the current campaign with a comfortable 2-0 victory at Birmingham City on Wednesday night.


That this fifth road win of 2019/20 was achieved at St Andrew’s should come as little surprise – QPR have a tremendous recent record here with now four wins from their last six visits. But for so long through a turgid first half this looked like being a repeat of last year’s 0-0 snooze-a-thon which could have bored a room full of boxer dogs into calmness.

QPR, fresh from a first win in eight games and a first clean sheet of the season against Preston at Loftus Road on Saturday, erred on the side of caution for this first of two quickfire away games. Jordan Hugill, despite a game battle with AJ Styles at the weekend, dropped out of the starting eleven in favour of an extra Luke Amos-shaped body for the midfield alongside Geoff Cameron. Out of the 5-0-5 we came, and back into the 4-2-3-1 we slipped.

Quite what Birmingham City were erring on the side of was never quite established. A rickety defence was to be expected with both first choice centre halves Jake Clarke-Salter and Marc Roberts injured in a win at Reading at the weekend, and they were also missing Dan Crowley’s above-average vision and below-average temperament from midfield, but across 90 insipid minutes they failed to muster a single serious shot of any note on Joe Lumley’s goal. QPR have gone from no clean sheets in 24 games to two in five days but where Lumley had to command a penalty box and make a spectacular save in the second half to secure the first against Preston, he could have immersed himself in a good book for 90 minutes and still kept the second one here. Apart from perhaps lulling QPR into some stupefied sense of security before trying to spring a late surprise on them, it was really quite difficult to see what Pep Clotet’s team was trying to achieve here, and there were precious few locals left in the stadium to see it by the end.

...continued in the link

 

Can't get enough of watching bos's goal....what a belter....

Initially I thought that Naki was a bit hacked off that he didn't get a tap in pass but the more you watch it I think he's just surprised at what Bos has done and it's a delayed reaction in celebrating....

Cracking result...

 

If you look back at BOS's goal, look at who makes the tackle to win the ball back on the edge of his own box. Yes, a certain Mr. Eze. He often gets criticised for not defending. Just saying.

 

Good interview with Eze on this weeks podcast....

Eze listening - Podcast - Queens Park Rangers News | Loft For Words https://www.fansnetwork.co.uk/football/queensparkrangers/news/51447/eze-listening--podcast

 

I’m fully expecting 15 from 15.

We’ll get seven, obviously.

 

I put on the Saturday thread that we could win the next 4.....I actually think I could/should have said 5

 

One swallow and all that. He is very lazy at tracking back. On the plus side his growing reputation means that teams like Birmingham last night double up on his marking which creates opportunity for us elsewhere. Eze put in some good effort last night but didnt have time to breathe in possession. This created more opportunity for BOS who proved we are not a one man team.

 

Superb performance and result

 

Lol. Tx for that virtual slap in the face with a wet fish!
I'm going to dare to dream and absorb the disappointment.

 

Can we dream of 3 maybe?

 

Yep. I feel responsible for that debacle!
Me and my big mouth.

 

Wow.... How well did this work out?!

 

It's the hope / dreaming that kills!
I think I'd rather die hoping than acquiesce to mediocrity!