Match Day Thread QPR vs Preston

I felt in the first half we flattered to deceive, nice touches but after the first 10-minutes not much different than last year.
Second half we fell into last years mode.

Preston are nothing special but know how to get the ball in the opposition half.

Our goal kicks are an embarrassment. In the first half we had a goal kick, on the half way line it was 3x3, we tapped it around, got pressured and gave a throw in 20 yards from our goal line.

From our corner their keeper kicks it forward for one striker against 3 defenders, 1 kick later they score.

We remain slow going forward, still looking sidewards & backwards far too often and play with a single striker desperate to avoid a sun-tan by staying in a defenders shadow.

I'm sticking with my 16th prediction.

 

He’ll get found out playing better teams who press his pointless wall passes. Reasonably confident Stephan will bin him and Celar after not long.

 

TAIWO! He’s got SOUL!

 

If he's allowed to

 

I totally agree with you, why fart around in your own goal area back & forth with the full backs, when you could just punt the ball safely upfield (we are not tippy tappy Barca). In the 1st half, before I left for my 40 laps x 25m swimming in the City outdoor pool, I noted one of Walsh's drop kicks when straight into touch resulting in a throw in for PNE. So I was otherwise occupied for the remainder of the match (most of it, seems we got lucky with an og. For their goal it appears from the description that their keeper played the goal out to the goal score and stupid Walsh was way out of his crease and lopped the ball over him and in. Well at least we commence the new season in the zone of mid table mediocrity (my pick on the poll). So was it a "good" point, a "lucky" point?
Did we have it in us to win the game?
Why is Walsh in goal and not Nardi? Is Nardi perhaps carrying a knock. Often the reserve keeper does the Cup matches which is normally not very long for us.

 

With Celar and the midgets to aim for I understand why. There wasn’t the usual Dunne option to the wing either. Was a bit more direct with Kolli and Burrell. The added benefit with Burrell is teams have to play a bit deeper rather than even the slowest centre-halves being able to play in a dinner jacket on the halfway line. Creates more space for the midgets to play.

 

Has the Celar experiment finally run it's course? We really need someone who wants it

Having said that, the insistence of.playing one up front clearly doesn't work, we don't have the skills

 

Celars only attribute is that he makes MADSON look good.

 

I'm not sure how we can play 4-4-2 though
Midfield would have to be Dembele-Varane-Field-Poku which means no place for Chair?

 

With his form from last season and today's opener, I wouldn't be too bothered. There's more than one way to accommodate 2 forwards though. It's irrelevant anyway as the club states how we play and the manager has to work with that.

 

Sounds like two bald men fighting over a comb, full off Preston 16th is ours

 

It’s a wonder that the groom had a best man!

 

A good keeper is worth 8-10 points a season to a bottom half team, Walsh will be a liability. We've too many square pegs in round holes and, injuries withstanding, still seem to be experimenting...

 

Hopefully stoke lost

 

So in the League Cup we have the long trip down to play Plymouth Argyle on Tuesday (who then travel to Lincoln City on Saturday!). Does that match have a guaranteed embarrassing cup loss nailed on? So we shipped the now fully developed goal scoring ace Kelman from Orient o rivals Charlton and have also put Alfie Lloyd out on loan to Orient to further develop his goal scoring skills with a likely 20 goal season? I just don't see where our goals are coming from, other than a few lucky og's?

 

I totally agree. Walsh is going to cost us goals and points, that we can I'll afford to lose. He is a flapper of high balls with extremely poor ball distribution and also cannot perform a proper drop kick upfield. So what are his attributes? To make him look bad and then bin him?

 

I thought he dealt with a couple of high balls very well. Bar one defensive horror early on where we gifted Smith a free header from eight yards we dealt with their gigantic team quite well at set pieces compared to what I was expecting.

Think Walsh is fine and we easily forget Nardi’s form for much of the final half or so of the season. In the few competitive games he’s played he’s not let us down. This team has bigger issues than its goalkeeper.

 

I have to agree regarding Walsh/Nardi. The team has bigger issues to sort out. It looks like the first 5 or 6 games in this league will be our pre season.

 

As is tradition.

Watford should be better than Preston (but still not very good) and Cov better than Watford. They’ve got infinitely more up front than we do and couldn’t score against silly Hull. It’ll all be fine.

 

The Own Goal Conundrum:

I have for sometime defended our strikers in relation to them having no service and that without the ball getting in the box they will never score.

However we do get a fair few Own Goals, mainly from defenders mistakes once a little pressure is applied.

This would suggest that actually we do get the ball in the box and if the strikers tried to get in front of the defenders they may be able to score themselves.


Dembeles run and cross was a stand out of yesterday and fortnately ended in a goal. We also had a few runs in the second half, for me the issue was that every time we had at most only one in the box, normally hiding between two defenders.
We can moan about no service but this is sometimes because any service is delayed waiting for an attacker to appear.