McClaren insists defeat was harsh on QPR

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QPR manager Steve McClaren insisted his side did not deserved to lose against Norwich.

Rangers had taken 10 points from their previous four matches and won their ​past​ two.

But they were beaten 1-0 by the Canaries at Loftus Road, where Teemu Pukki scored a second-half winner.

McClaren said: “That was very harsh. We deserved more. We didn’t deserve to lose.

“You could see a lot of endeavour, a lot of attitude – two very good teams I think. The cards didn’t fall our way.

“Norwich dominated the first half an hour and once we started to get on top of them and press them, we got hold of it and in the second half especially I could only see one winner.”

But McClaren admitted Rangers paid the price for not having an end product despite the hard work of on-loan strikers Nahki Wells and Tomer Hemed.

“In these type of games you’ve got to have a bit of luck and that quality. There wasn’t any real quality in the final third,” he said.

“I said we’d take a minimum of six points out of nine this week and we’ve got that, but we should have had more.

“We’ve got to score and we’ve got enough quality in the team to score. But why we’ve lost is that we didn’t score. It’s simple.

“It’s one of them games; 0-0 unless someone produces that bit of quality. I thought it would be us with the quality we have in the team, but we haven’t scored and that disappoints me.”