QPR v Norwich 0 - 1 FT

My worry is Baptiste who is pretty slow. Hope Norwich dont have any pacey widemen. Vital that Eze gives him some support.

0- 1 Norwich. The goal was a bit lucky but on the balance of play it was deserved. We just don't look threatening!

Bright and Cousins on for Baptiste and Scowen.

Full Time, 0- 1 to Norwich. We were poor and looked unbalanced. IMO Eze has to play in the centre of midfield because he gets lost out wide. You want your best player dictating the play and we negated all of Eze's ability by playing him in a position where he just ain't dangerous.

Totally agree re your comments about Eze. He did not provide the support Baptiste needed (he still places himself in dead space between opponents allowing them to bypass him); and he was wasted on the wing. It seems from the way Wells plays that he is best at an inside right role and Eze should be behind Hemed, feeding off the scraps (of which there were a few tonight).

Overall though it was a poor team performance, Norwich were allowed to dictate in the first half because we left too much space available in midfield. Norwich move up from 15th to 11th on that win; whilst QPR manage to stay on 16th with the same 10 points....

Bad mix really
Norwich were allowed to bully us and we played a really poor milliwall side on Wednesday
We have improved but you shut out eze and wells we are as proved by Norwich toothless in attack
Baptiste is not as good as angel or as composed
How we react in our next game is going to be interesting
Championship is wide open and Leeds losing at home to Birmingham shows how unpredictable this league is

Well, we were tactically out-thought tonight. We didn't play terribly as we never got the chance, we just never got into the game and a point was the best we could hope for from very early on.

I actually felt McClaren needed to be brave and make a change after about 15 minutes, yes it is unusual but it was clear that was our best chance to get something from the game. We needed to put another body in the middle so should have made the tactical switch taking off one of Hemed, Wells, Freeman or Eze.

McClaren left it far too long, until they scored, and so we paid the price with the result.

Agree with stoatey that I remain unconvinced by Eze and Freeman out wide. If any opposition managers were watching that they'd come away thinking "play 4-5-1 and we will dominate the ball and control the match".

Eze was poor tonight for my money. Yes he struggled in the shape but when in possession he gave it away and tried flicks a few times at the wrong time. I would have taken him off long before they scored. He is a good talent but he shouldnt be immune to criticism or being taken off.

So overall no panic, we got it wrong, deserved a penalty, conceded a bit of a flukey goal and could still have got a point from a below par performance.