Coca Cola Championship
Saturday December 22nd  
   
Queens Park Rangers 2 Colchester United 1
A.Buzsacky (2) M.Yeates
   
D.Stewart sent off  
   

   
Team Line Up
   
         
   
1. Lee Camp
   
           
25. Bob Malcolm
28. Zesh Rehmann
5. Damion Stewart
3. Chris Barker
           
11. Gareth Ainsworth
32. Mikele Leigterwood
7. Adam Bolder (c)

26. Rowan Vine

           
   
10. Akos Buzsacky
   
           
   
9. Dexter Blackstock
   
   
Subs  
Marc Nygaard on for Dexter Blackstock  
Simon Walton on for Mikele Leigterwood  
Subs Not Used  
Jake Cole
Angelo Balanta  
Stefan Moore  

It's been a eventful week at Rangers and myself with Christmas parties, a stinking cold and tons of work meaning I've had no time to update this site but forgetting my problems at Loftus Road it's been bizarre to say the least with two entertaining games and another billionaire coming to invest in QPR.

It was a mad game. Typical Rangers really. Could have been out of sight by half time as has been the case in ever home game since De Canio took over. Great goal from Buzsacky to open the scoring, he really is top quality. After half time we were still on top and scored a lovely second goal. It was Arsenal like in the one touch passing, a lovely ball from Blackstock to Buzsacky and he took it so well. I thought we'd go on to win by 4 or 5 after that but in truth we rarely got out of our own half again.

They got one back and then we defended so deep it was frightening. De Canio was going mad and trying to get them to push up but this is still QPR and we refused to make this an easy win. Bolder and Leigertwood were both very poor imo and were the ones who forced us to play so deep by just sitting in front of the back four.

The back four themselves did ok, Rehmann again doing very little wrong whilst Camp had a top game making two excellent saved to win us the game.

The referee lost the plot a bit, should have sent off Sherringham stamp on Malcolm (he didn't even book him) and then should have sent off a Colchester defender in the last minute who ran over and pushed Buzsacky into the lower loft a good few seconds after the whistle had gone.

The Stewart sending off was about right, looked a late tackle to me and a deserved second yellow. The ref did get the penalty right though, looked an outrageous dive to me but for a second I had a horrible feeling he had given it.

In the end i felt exhausted by it all but the three points were so important to us. Plenty to work on and it's clear we need a few new defenders and Blackstock badly needs a goal to get his confidence back but rather a win than another draw. Buzsacky was rightly man of the match, two brilliant goals and the way he can bring the ball down with such skill and grace is a joy to watch. If we are going to sign more players like him we're in for some fun over the next few years.