| Wednesday
March 8th |
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Manchester City 1
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Q.P.R. 3
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| G.Whitley
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C.Kiwomya
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G.Wiekens
(og) |
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M.Beck
(pen) |
Rangers remained
unchanged for tonight's game with Jermaine Darlington passing a
late fitness test.
City started
the better and laid siege to the Rangers goal early on. City created
six good chances as they laid serious assault on the Rangers goal
involving Mark Kennedy in all but one of them. On one occasion his
delivery saw Wiekens head against the underside of the bar early
on.
Rangers did
offer a threat themselves through Mikkel Beck. Danny Tiatto saved
City blushes by blocking Beck's twelve yard goal bound effort on
the half hour. Rangers then suffered a blow when Gavin Peacock went
off injured to be replaced by top goal scorer Stuart Wardley.
After 37 minutes,
Weaver fumbled a speculative free-kick from Richard Langley into
the path of Chris Kiwomya who made no mistake from close range.
This was a good reward for Kiwomya who has suffered criticism for
missing chances in the last two matches.
Eight minutes
later Weaver failed to close out a long range effort from Ian Baraclough
and the ball squirmed for substitute Stuart Wardley to convert but
Gerard Wiekens got the final touch for an own goal.
After 18 minutes
of the second period Chris Kiwomya threatened before being brought
down in the City box. Up stepped Beck to send Weaver the wrong way
with the left foot from the penalty spot.
Rangers fans
were treated to a special away day but City did get a late goal
back to set up a late push from Man City. Once again, Lee Harper
produced some excellent saves to help earn Rangers their first win
since January 3rd and extends Rangers run to seven games unbeaten.
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