Post by Stanley75 on Oct 6, 2019 15:26:13 GMT
Published 21 hours ago by FourFourTwo
QPR manager Mark Warburton praised his side after their 4-2 victory over Blackburn but admitted they need to tighten up at the back.
“If we win every game 4-2 from now until May I’ll buy you as many beers as you could possibly want. On a serious note, of course you want to keep a clean sheet. The trouble with defenders is that it’s easy for people behind keyboards to jump on and go: ‘Oh, Yoann Barbet!’ – but he’s the last line of defence. If he doesn’t make that tackle they go: ‘Why hasn’t he tried to tackle him?’ We missed the tackle ahead, didn’t maintain our shape and then they’re forced into that last-ditch tackle. Yoann Barbet has been outstanding and will continue to get better.
It’s worrying that we gave a soft goal away. I was more frustrated with the second goal they scored. We were sloppy and complacent and we can’t do that.”
Blackburn manager Tony Mowbray claimed his team paid the price for trying to take the game to Rangers in the second half.
“QPR play on the counter-attack and are good at what they do,” Mowbray said. “They sit lots of men behind the ball and they break – and today when we exposed our defenders we got found out a little bit.
“We could have kept it as tight as we did in the first half and it might have finished 1-0 because we didn’t look like we were going to score.
“We needed to make the game a bit more stretched and see if we could score a goal. We scored two, could have had a few more, but ultimately you can’t lose the goals that we did and that’s what cost us the game.
“In the second half we decided to attack, be more positive and open the game up and our defenders didn’t really deal with the situation.
“You see the game and if you know anything about football you can see that we are a decent team, but you can’t lose four goals.”
Full article: www.fourfourtwo.com/news/mark-warburton-makes-case-improve-qpr-defence
QPR manager Mark Warburton praised his side after their 4-2 victory over Blackburn but admitted they need to tighten up at the back.
“If we win every game 4-2 from now until May I’ll buy you as many beers as you could possibly want. On a serious note, of course you want to keep a clean sheet. The trouble with defenders is that it’s easy for people behind keyboards to jump on and go: ‘Oh, Yoann Barbet!’ – but he’s the last line of defence. If he doesn’t make that tackle they go: ‘Why hasn’t he tried to tackle him?’ We missed the tackle ahead, didn’t maintain our shape and then they’re forced into that last-ditch tackle. Yoann Barbet has been outstanding and will continue to get better.
It’s worrying that we gave a soft goal away. I was more frustrated with the second goal they scored. We were sloppy and complacent and we can’t do that.”
Blackburn manager Tony Mowbray claimed his team paid the price for trying to take the game to Rangers in the second half.
“QPR play on the counter-attack and are good at what they do,” Mowbray said. “They sit lots of men behind the ball and they break – and today when we exposed our defenders we got found out a little bit.
“We could have kept it as tight as we did in the first half and it might have finished 1-0 because we didn’t look like we were going to score.
“We needed to make the game a bit more stretched and see if we could score a goal. We scored two, could have had a few more, but ultimately you can’t lose the goals that we did and that’s what cost us the game.
“In the second half we decided to attack, be more positive and open the game up and our defenders didn’t really deal with the situation.
“You see the game and if you know anything about football you can see that we are a decent team, but you can’t lose four goals.”
Full article: www.fourfourtwo.com/news/mark-warburton-makes-case-improve-qpr-defence
