Redknapp: QPR challenge bigger than Portsmouth but we can do it if we win at Fulham Monday, March 18, 2013 7:10 AM Harry Redknapp admits avoiding relegation from the Barclays Premier League with QPR this season would be an even bigger achievement than when he saved Portsmouth from the drop seven years ago. . .. Redknapp was nicknamed âHarry Houdiniâ as Portsmouth recovered from being eight points adrift of safety at the end of February to stay up on the final day of the 2005-2006 campaign. Now QPR are seven points short of safety after yesterdayâs 3-2 reversal at Aston Villa, a result inflicted courtesy of Christian Bentekeâs late winner. But Redknapp sees signs of encouragement that give him hope QPR can still drag themselves clear of danger in the remaining eight matches. He said: âThis is probably tougher than when we stayed up at Portsmouth, considering the position I started from here. âIt is going to be hard, it is going to be tough. It was always going to be hard wasnât it? But itâs not impossible. âWe are playing well at the moment, that is the encouraging thing for me. I think we have got to carry on playing as we are at the moment and just cut out the mistakes. âLetâs be honest, before we played Southampton and Villa away and Sunderland at home, if someone had offered me five points I would have taken them - and we ended up with six.â Redknapp added: âWe are starting to score some goals which is something we hadnât done earlier in the year. âOur top goalscorer has got four goals. That tells you what has been the problem all year. âWe look like we can score suddenly, but we have got to go and win away from home somewhere in these coming games. âWe have got to win at Fulham, we have got to win at Reading. We have got to win one of those games and we have got to win our home games. If we can do that, we can still stay up.â
OK, so I'm observing comment from afar ( here in Oz )but .............. from what I'm hearing, the difference is not only have we won a couple of games, it is that now we are playing with some conviction and starting to look like a positive team. That is the kind of effort that may, I said may, save us from the drop.
Spot on Aussie.From Aug to end of Dec we scored 16 league goals and from Jan to mid March, 12. The goal scoring has improved, the team work is self evident on the pitch, the heads don't drop when we go behind and we battle to the end. It may all be too little too late but at least it is better value for money than what we were watching under Hughes.
Totally agree RTID. I thought we were excellent on Saturday, and were very unlucky not to take all three points, let alone none at all. We created a hatful of really good chances, and were unrecognisable compared to the team that created so little pre-Christmas. We not only got some fight about us now, we’ve also got a genuine attacking threat. We didn’t have either of those things when we were capitulating so miserably to the likes of Southampton and West Ham at home back in October and November. Whether it’s all too late to keep us up remains to be seen. Either way though I’d rather see us finish the season with some swagger and attacking verve, and that’s exactly what we seem to be doing. U Rs!!!
We were good on saturday except fot 3 lapse's, i can't get to grips with work today over match we through away ****ing depressed.
Yep, fair enough. Cesar didn't look fully fit to me. If Green hadn't been injured I think he would have probably started instead, although I'm not sure how much difference it would have made in the end. Know what you mean about work today. Can't get into it either..
We have to win against Wigan, Fulham, Stoke, Reading and Newcastle. That gets us to 38 points. That should be enough to keep us up.
