Fulham v QPR
Nov 23, 2019 1:52:40 GMT
Post by ranger-boy on Nov 23, 2019 1:52:40 GMT
Well that was frustrating to watch, but I still left feeling quite positive afterwards. You don't always get what you deserve in football, and we more than deserved a result out of that.
Why did I leave feeling positive you ask? Because all of their quality and experience, yet they only won due to 2 mistakes from us when I think a lot of us were fearing a tonking. A lot of teams will go and get turned over there.
That first half (barring their goal and the chance when they hit the post) is some of the best football I've seen us play in years. Any other day, we're 3-0 up in 15 minutes and walking away with an easy win. But my word, it would be frightning to see how good we could be if we cut out the silly mistakes and took more of our chances!
We now move on to a huge game on Wednesday against a tough Forest team! A win aginst them, and we can move on from our recent poor run of form before another tough trip to Derby next weekend!
We have an advantage now with an extra day of rest to prepare for Wednesday Forest play away to Bristol City tomorrow, and that won't be an easy game for them!
So overall, yes we lost tonight with more errors, but there are still huge positives to take from this game! Also remember we do have a very young squad, so they will improve with time. We will continue to make errors, but as long as we see improvement then we can't ask for too much more!
)! The bottom line is that we have a squad that was built from minimal cash outlay (I was surprised by the £50k only spent), and it is playing against sides that have come down from the PL with the same squad or against Championship sides that have spent as if FFP was going out of fashion. Some of the transfers in have worked, such as Ball, Hugill, Amos, Pugh and Wallace; whereas some have not, such as Matt Smith (2nd), Kane, and Mlakar in my opinion. I would also point out that Leistner has twice been a candidate for 'MotM' recently, which does to some extent validate our comments about how poor the defence is if a CB of his age is playing better than most others in the team! If we examine the recent performance of Hall, for example, I can only assume I thought he was good because he was playing alongside Lynchgate. Hall looks half-hearted at best, which is very annoying as he is the captain of the team! We need two ball-playing CBs yesterday, and I still believe that the January sales is not the time to make important purchases...