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The following
is a summary of the game posted by Tony Johnson (Jonno) on the QPR
mailing list
We didn't play
well, frankly. But when you have two centre backs playing in centre
midfield what can you expect?
As soon as I
saw Gallen, Bircham and Langley had not changed and were watching
the rest warm up from in front of the stand my heart sank. And when
I saw the lineup I felt like it was a wasted journey - you just
knew that any chance of some decent football was severely restricted.
Rose was appallingly
bad in midfield (he certainly wouldn't have got in Aylesbury's side
in that position and their no 8 looked the most accomplished player
on the pitch in that area, continually making a mug of Rose and
Palmer) and without any sort of creative, attacking midfielder in
the centre we were never likely to create much.
Although we
were clearly the stronger side we were never going to get many goals.
The fact that our goals came from set pieces via both centre backs
says everything.
Digby made a
complete hash of a cross for their goal as well, and Murphy was
often caught out of position at left back, although he recovered
well on most occasions but against higher quality opposition he
won't be given the opportunity, he still has much to learn but you
have to admire his desperate enthusiasm.
Pasqual looked
OK up front until getting injured, but Thomson was basically wasting
his time up front because Rose and Palmer were never going to see
his clever runs off the ball. Sidibe came on and looked nowhere
near as good as he did against Celtic.
Connolly didn't
look particularly interested IMHO. Good points were; Forbes played
well at right back - and actually put in a couple of good crosses.
Carlisle was excellent at the back, and formed a good partnership
with Shittu who still looks raw but powerful.
Oliver Burgess
was excellent on the right side of midfield - our best player on
the day. He must surely start the season in the first eleven. Even
playing with an injury (twisted ankle when he trod on the ball in
the first half) he caused the home defence enough problems for them
to resort to giving him some rough treatment.
DouDou came
on and looked far too good for the opposition at this level. Clarke
scored the winner in the last minute from a free kick after DouDou
was fouled yet again.
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