Disagree playing against 10 men should be easier, end of. You have an extra man to make more space and to stop them playing. It only becomes harder when your manager doesn't know how to win a game of football. It's like a boxer rupturing his Achilles tendon during a fight, generally he is not expected to win. The myth is actually when teams go down to 10 men they close up and defend which sometimes makes it harder for teams to score. However When you have 2 shots on target and let the team with 10 men score 2 goals then you have to questioned why.
I remember Glenn Hoddle once saying, when his Chelsea side had failed to score against 9 men, 'everyone knows it's hard to play against 10 men - well it's even harder against 9'.
I wonder how many players would have needed to be sent off for us to have been able to draw, yet alone win!
Im so disillusioned I hardly post on here anymore.....it looks like even the die hard Olly lovers have had enough. Unfortunately, enough is enough and he has to go and as for who replaces him...I dont think it really matters now but elderly Mum would do a better job!....On a serious note, no one from inside the club (even on a temp basis) at the moment. We need fresh impetus and for someone to shake the whole place up. I presume Marco Silva wouldnt come.....great project for him...lol
Clive Whittingham's match report ... QPR slump against City’s supposedly tired ten men – Report Sunday, 28th Jan 2018 16:31 by Clive Whittingham Another low point in QPR’s 2017/18 campaign sees them lose 2-0 at a Bristol City side that went 12 rounds with Man City during the week and played an hour of this game with ten men. A midtable finish, sadly, is the limit of the ambitions at Queens Park Rangers this season as they try and clean house and finally start moving forwards again in 2018/19 after years of decline. To end up in the middle of the league table you will meet with triumph and disaster, and by and large you must treat those two imposters just the same. Each defeat is not the end of the world, for which heads must be skewered and walls ripped down, nor are the victories reasons for medal ceremonies and statue erections. Though the hype that official channels pump out after wins and youth team strikers scoring goals may trick you into thinking otherwise, QPR weren’t that good in victory against Burton, Cardiff or Birmingham over Christmas. And though the vicious, aggressive, gnashing, calls for sackings and abuse of other supporters on social media may confuse you, they haven’t been that bad in most of the defeats they’ve suffered this season. In the Championship, games are often two teams just bumping into each other for 90 minutes with a result at the end that easily could have gone to the other two outcomes. QPR could have drawn or lost the Cardiff, Burton and Birmingham games, could have won or lost at Ipswich or against Bristol City at home and so on. Read the rest here ... https://www.fansnetwork.co.uk/football/queensparkrangers/news/47403
This is wrong and right Ellers. Yes...It can be harder when a team closes up and parks the bus to get a point. But if Rangers had spent 60 minutes pulling City apart, peppering them with shots, trying everything but still not scoring by flukes, luck and sheer City dogedness (is that a word?).... I would be the first to defend them with "It is hard to play agianst 10". I think all of us are saying, except for a 5-10 minute period, this is not what happened.We should have had 20 shots on goal not 2. We did not give it a go The belief and desire has gone. If we do not get it back quickly (before Saturday) we could be in dire straights
Sadly that is all Hollow had in his locker. I think the players listen to him and think WTF! Col made an important and sensible point during the game when Smith came on This is a segment from Clives report: And sadly, the approach to Saturday’s game at Bristol City was every bit as thickheaded, every bit as cry-yourself-to-sleep, every bit as soul destroying as the second half at Millwall. Here we were again, against a ginormous, physically imposing defence, slinging Matt Smith on at half time and pumping long balls up to a narrow attack in a crowded space for Aden Flint and Bailey Wright to head back at us – a tactic we tried on this ground last season with similar results, only this time we were doing it against ten men. Now if both Clive and Col and many other fans can work this out, why cant Hollow? This is why he is not good enough because he doesn't have a good footballing brain and continually makes the same mistakes....The same ones he made during his first spell at the club.
He's losing the dressing room I reckon Beth. To play against 10 men you make the pitch as wide as possible and move them around. Ollie didn't get us to do that, instead bringing on Smith to lump balls to when they had two giant CBs. Inept.
Smythe didn't exactly play brilliant and had a little luck with the goal he tried hard but is miles from the answer at the moment
I suspect that Freeman was being wound up by his old team mates - "Why did you leave us for that shower of sh1te? Oo-ar"
