QPR Vs Nottingham Forest

70 mins...sense a change of momentum towards Forest...we need to be careful

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Beautiful! Very impressive, nice and solid, players all doing their jobs. I don't think any player was less than 7/10.

And a clean sheet. Could see that meant a lot to the back 4 in the last 10 minutes.

Dykes is a steal. For 90 minutes in every game he will be fighting and chasing and giving teams a headache. Plus it's great for him to get off the mark straight away and gives him more confidence (not that he needs it judging by that penalty - what a hit!)

Forest had no shots on target, we defended as a unit. Just superb. There won't be much in this league this season and if we can play like that another 45 times we will give ourselves a good run.

A couple of goals, victory and a clean sheet. What more could we ask for on day one!

It sounds like we were more than good value for that, which is a big positive against a team we often struggle against! Now on to Friday and Coventry!

A really pleasing victory overall.

Won't get carried away - on another day Grabban would have had a couple of goals; but by the same token we could have scored another.

What was really gratifying was that the defensive frailties that have plagued us for a couple of seasons were not on show here; the defence played well throughout, and though Forest had chances their chances were earned by the sweat of their own brow and not due to slip ups and panic from us. Never got the feeling at any stage that it was backs to the wall and trying to hold on.

As well as those already mentioned, I thought Wallace had a very solid game.

We still need another central defender and another striker. Dykes is definitely promising, but his no-holds-barred rummle-them-up style will see him get hurt and out for a few weeks at some point in the season; Ramkilde could be good in the future and a possible back-up (not unlike Dykes in several respects) but he is raw and has seen the treatment room more than the training ground recently, so I hope we can get a good-to-go backup for Dykes soon.

Sounds as though nobody on the Forum believes that Oteh can fill that slot, at least this season, so what happens to him now....?