Team: Smithies, Perch, Caulker, Onuoha, Lynch (Hamalainen), Borysiuk, Cousins (Gladwin), Luongo, Washington, Chery, Sylla (Polter) Subs Not Used: Ingram, Henry, Wszolek, Shodipo Attendance: 12,552 (including 1,083 visiting fans) Until he scored, you wouldn’t have known Sylla was on the pitch. Ditto Cousins when he went off injured. The goal gave Sylla a lot of confidence Continue reading
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QPR (1) – Reading (1) – Man-of-the-Match (by a Mile): Alex Smithies
Team: Smithies, Perch, Hall (Caulker), Onuoha, Lynch, Henry, Wszolek (Sylla), Shodipo (Washington), Borysiuk, Chery, Polter Subs Not Used: Ingram, Hamalainen, Gladwin, Luongo Attendance: 15,048 (including 1,675 Reading fans) QPR’s win-less home run continued as Danny Williams’ equaliser earned Reading a deserved point. Polish winger Pawel Wszolek netted his first goal for the Hoops from close Continue reading
QPR U23 (0) – Nottingham Forest U23 (5)
U23 Professional Development League Team: Lumley, Kakay, Hamalainen, Manning (Crichlow), Arthur (Williams), Lynch, Prohouly, Akinola (Adams), Darbyshire, Eze, El Khayati Sub Not Used: Dieng First chance of the afternoon fell to Danny Darbyshire, whose effort was comfortably smothered by Jordan Smith. This was soon followed by a superb long ball way over to the right Continue reading
Fulham (1) – QPR (2) – Rangers’ First Win at Craven Cottage Since 1980
Team: Smithies, Lynch (Hamalainen), Hall, Caulker, Onuoha, Chery, Henry, Wszolek (Shodipo), Luongo, Washington, Polter (Sylla) Subs Not Used: Ingram, Kakay, Sandro, El Khayati Attendance: 19,609 (including 3,302 R’s fans) Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink admitted the 2-1 win over Fulham – his side’s first win at Craven Cottage since 1980 – was the perfect tonic after a Continue reading
Brentford B (3) – QPR U23 (0)
B Team/U23 Friendly at Jersey Road Team: Dieng, Springer-Downes, Manning, Akinola (Eales), Arthur, Fox, trialist (Paul), trialist (Alfa), Derbyshire, Bowler, Prohouly Sub Not Used: Herdman Tim Seny Dieng made a very good save with his legs in the early stages of the game. However, the home side took the lead after 13 minutes following a Continue reading
Burton Albion (1) – QPR (1) – Rangers’ first League Goal of the Season from Open Play
Team: Smithies, Bidwell (Lynch), Hall, Caulker, Onuoha, Henry, Borysiuk (Polter), Luongo, Wszolek, Chery, Washington Subs Not Used: Ingram, Kakay, Sandro, El Khayati, Shodipo Attendance: 3,725 (including 638 R’s fans) Sebastian Polter scored QPR’s first goal from open play in the Championship this season to earn a draw at Burton. In a tame first-half, Jon McLaughlin Continue reading
QPR (1) – Birmingham City (1)
Team: Smithies, Bidwell, Hall, Caulker, Onuoha, Borysiuk, Cousins (Wszolek), Luongo, Chery, Shodipo (Polter), Sylla Subs Not Used: Ingram, Lynch, Henry, El Khayati, Washington Attendance: 13,693 (including 1,616 away fans) To coin old clich√©s…a game of two halves…just another **** ref, and stewards acting the ********!!! A first-half albeit the last 15 minutes, we looked clueless, Continue reading
QPR (1) – Sunderland (2)
EFL Cup 3rd Round Team: Ingram, Kakay, Lynch, Caulker, Hamalainen, Cousins (Chery), Sandro, Wszolek, El Khayati, Washington (Luongo), Sylla (Polter) Subs Not Used: Smithies, Onuoha, Paul, Borysiuk Attendance: 14,301 (including 2,214 away fans) Watching fairly high up in R Block, I had a good view of all the goalmouth action (our goalmouth!) in the first-half; Continue reading
QPR U23 (1) – Sheffield United U23 (4)
U23 Professional Development League Team: Lumley, Barzey, Williams, Manning (Bowler), Arthur, Frost (Fox), Prohouly (Alfa), Folkes, Adams, Eze, Darbyshire Sub Not Used: Dieng The first chance of the afternoon fell to the visitors inside 5 minutes when Caolan Lavery spun in the box and forced Joe Lumley down to smother the ball. The R’s custodian Continue reading
Huddersfield Town (2) – QPR (1) – Rangers are Second Best
Team: Smithies, Onuoha, Caulker, Hall, Bidwell, Henry (Borysiuk), Luongo, Cousins, Chery, Shodipo (Sylla), Washington (Polter) Subs Not Used: Ingram, Lynch, Wszolek, El Khayati Attendance: 20,595 (including 732 R’s fans) Do not let the close score line fool you. For well over the first three quarters of this encounter we were virtually hardly ever in the Continue reading
