QPR beaten at home by Burton
QPR 1 Burton 2
QPR’s five-match unbeaten run came to a halt at Loftus Road.
Goals from Luke Murphy and Lloyd Dyer put Burton in control before Conor Washington pulled a goal back.
Murphy, on loan from Leeds United, sent a sizzling low shot into the bottom corner of the net from 30 yards on 11 minutes.
It was his first goal for Burton – and their first goal in five matches.
And worse followed for Rangers six minutes into the second half, when Dyer finished coolly after exchanging passes with on-loan Fulham midfielder Lasse Vigen Christensen.
Washington, on as a substitute, hauled QPR back into the game just after the hour mark.
The striker kept his composure following a sliding challenge from John Mousinho and smashed the ball past keeper Jon McLaughlin.
But Burton held on fairly comfortably to pick up only their second win in nine league league matches.
Rangers boss Ian Holloway made two changes to his starting line-up, with on-loan Brighton winger Kazenga LuaLua and Michael Doughty replacing Jamie Mackie and Ryan Manning.
With his team having failed to create a clear-cut chance in the first half, Holloway brought on Washington and switched to two up front in an attempt to change the course of the game.
Instead, Rangers switched off at the back and the lively Dyer took full advantage.
Washington eventually did have an impact – and after his goal Rangers had chances to equalise.
Idrissa Sylla, who struggled up front, was unable to apply the finish after being found by LuaLua’s low left-wing cross.
McLaughlin then reacted quickly to race from his line and thwart Washington after he had been put through by Massimo Luongo’s through-ball.
And another LuaLua cross, this time from the right-flank, was headed over by Darnell Furlong.
At the other end, keeper Alex Smithies kept Rangers in the game by denying Dyer at point-blank range.
QPR: Smithies, Furlong, Onuoha, Lynch, Bidwell (Mackie 86), Wszolek, Doughty (Manning 74), Hall (Washington 45), Luongo, LuaLua, Sylla,
Subs not used: Ingram,Perch, Shodipo, Eze.
28/01/2017 @ 5:24 pm
QPR needed to get rid of players and some more but taking 28 days to sign a winger from Brighton reserves and a young player with no experience from Man United is crap, we’ve needed some players who could get goals and some creativity, i reckon in the last 3 days there will be some mad scramble for nobodies to fill out the squad, but make no mistake we are still in a relegation battle
28/01/2017 @ 5:20 pm
Don’t forget… we passed on Paul Clement. Give me strength.
28/01/2017 @ 5:04 pm
Usual disgrace. If this is a long term plan and we have to put up with these results could we stop signing loan players. I thought that’s what the new Ramsey/Hasselbaink ethos was about. Now we have the worst of both worlds.
28/01/2017 @ 4:21 pm
We seriously have to start asking who or what is running our club?,judging by recent performance my two grandsons could do a better job and they are 9and 6.The whole sorry season has been a joke and the trouble is nothing is being done to change things.