Coca Cola Championship
Wednesday February 25th  
   
Cardiff City 0
Queens Park Rangers 0
   
   
Team Line Up
   
         
24. Radek Cerny
16. Matthew Connolly
13. Kaspars Gorkks
5. Fitz Hall
2. Damien Delaney
       
 
4. Gavin Mahon (c)
 
   
9. Dexter Blackstock
 
           
7. Wayne Routledge
 
18. Liam Miller
6. Mikele Leigterwood
 
17. Lee Cook
21. Matteo Alberti
 
   
27. Heider Helguson
 
22. Samuel Di Carmine
 
 
Substitutes  

Rangers produced another impressive away performance to grab a point at Cardiff, the first team to take anything away froM ninian Park since December.

Paulo Sousa made three changes to the side that lose to Ipswich with Cerny, Stewart and Helguson replacing Camp, Hall and Di Carmine.

I was unable to get to this game so here are the thoughts of Dave Thomas, editor of A Kick up the R's, who was at the game and he posted this on the QPR Yahoo Mailing List.

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Rangers were as good against Cardiff as they were bad against Ipswich.

It was that marked a difference. No real surprise to those of us who watch the team home and away, and see a difference confidence about them on the road, but pleasing all the same.

We made what is probably a decent Cardiff side look ordinary - and the evidence to demonstrate just how dominant we were could be found in the silence of the home crowd at the end of a first-half that was all Rangers. And at the end of the 90 minutes, the second-half of which had
seen Cardiff come out fired up only to find Rangers had similarly stepped it up a gear, the home fans knew they were perhaps fortunate to have got a draw.

Not many sides will go to Ninian Park and dominate quite so comprehensively, but that's what Rangers did, looking strong in defence (no Hall... go figure), controlling midfield and creating chances from out wide. Cerny had only one (easy) save to make in the entire game, and
was a spectator for most of it. We didn't create too many chances ourselves but always looked the more likely to score.

I accept it might look different on the video - but we appeared to have the most blatant penalty of this or any other season waved away, when Cook appeared to be tripped in the box. Perhaps QPR World will show it and someone can tell me if it really was as clear cut as it looked from our end of the ground.

Match the performance on Saturday, and we should be leaving Oakwell happy travellers.