| Oxford Utd Reflection 22:21 - Oct 1 with 6838 views | bluenwhite10 |
One of those games where you expect 3 points, but didn’t create enough to deserve 3 points and fair play to Oxford as they did what they had to do very well.
I can’t honestly remember either keeper making a save in the game:
The starting line up lacked a bit of creativity with Hayden and Field in the middle a kind of pairing you would go with in an away game against one of the top teams not in a game you are expected to dominate and win.
I will say we did get into some strong crossing positions but the balls never got past the 1st defender.
A bit disappointed tonight in the fact we lacked that cutting edge …MOM …nobody stood out but will go with Norrington-Davies |  | | |  |
| Oxford Utd Reflection on 12:42 - Oct 2 with 494 views | E15Hoop |
| Oxford Utd Reflection on 12:23 - Oct 2 by Benny_the_Ball |
Little to reflect upon. The very epitome of a 'Bore Draw'. |
Not that I understand how this works, but according to Steve Brown on Radio London, our xG last night was 0.015, whilst Oxford's was a record breaking 0.00!  |  | | |
| Oxford Utd Reflection on 12:43 - Oct 2 with 485 views | PhilmyRs |
| Oxford Utd Reflection on 12:38 - Oct 2 by Benny_the_Ball |
The trouble is we said that after Saturday. 'Beat Oxford and the point at Sheffield Wednesday is a good one'. |
Fair point, but I think our record is one of the worst in the 3rd game of a 3 match game week so if we were able to get a win, that would at least suggest some progress on that front. I'm not confident mind, and think going out all guns blazing last night would have been better option. | | | |
| Oxford Utd Reflection on 12:57 - Oct 2 with 402 views | BrianMcCarthy |
| Oxford Utd Reflection on 11:59 - Oct 2 by karlski |
Argh that Smyth cut back opportunity after the most creative pass of the match from Madsen is terrorizing me in quieter moments - that was THE chance.
Agree that's not the most creative quadrant. Still finding out the combos that work in this squad.
Two games we'll look back on and think we should have won. |
"Argh that Smyth cut back opportunity after the most creative pass of the match from Madsen is terrorizing me in quieter moments - that was THE chance."
Kone did a dance/tantrum that had me in stitches.
Like a two-year old!
I have to watch it back. |  |
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| Oxford Utd Reflection on 13:18 - Oct 2 with 330 views | BklynRanger |
I thought it was bad, but not as bad as that XG thing suggests.
Playing with that midfield was always going to mean we relied more on the two wingers and the two frontmen. But Dembele went in and out of the game, two great balls in, some nice touches but he loses form/touch/timing for 10-15 min stretches almost every half. Needs to sort that.
Vale was good again in a quiet way, Frey is still getting back to his own level of form and fitness, and Kone looked out of sorts for much of it to me. Thought the back 4 were all decent, but not much stuck first half up front and things were again disjointed going forwards in both halfs. |  | | |
| Oxford Utd Reflection on 14:02 - Oct 2 with 246 views | BrizR |
| Oxford Utd Reflection on 13:18 - Oct 2 by BklynRanger |
I thought it was bad, but not as bad as that XG thing suggests.
Playing with that midfield was always going to mean we relied more on the two wingers and the two frontmen. But Dembele went in and out of the game, two great balls in, some nice touches but he loses form/touch/timing for 10-15 min stretches almost every half. Needs to sort that.
Vale was good again in a quiet way, Frey is still getting back to his own level of form and fitness, and Kone looked out of sorts for much of it to me. Thought the back 4 were all decent, but not much stuck first half up front and things were again disjointed going forwards in both halfs. |
I think if we were resting Madsen we really needed to play Morgan in there instead. Throughout the first half we struggled to get the ball out of defence at all and a more technically capable player would have helped.
Down the wings I thought RND did well last night and showed more as an attacker than he has done, and Jimmy was on better form too, but in the middle we were so slow and lumbering. Madsen and Saito coming on had an immediate impact. | | | |
| Oxford Utd Reflection on 14:02 - Oct 2 with 246 views | Spaghetti_Hoops |
| Oxford Utd Reflection on 08:20 - Oct 2 by Logman |
I thought the execution was OK. I remember when we played Oxford last year they charged around at 100 mph for an hour and it wasn't until they tired after an hour that we were able to get our noses in front. Well it was pretty much a similar story last night, with us trying to overload on them up front and then bringing on our whippets when they were going to tire.
Credit has to go to Oxford. They defended really well and were not too bad at bringing the ball out and being dangerous on the counter. They were far from the 'piss-poor' which I have read on here. |
Yes, people see a league position, make wrong assumptions about how bad a side are and get disappointed by the result. Oxford defended well. They have some good defenders. They were better than Sheff Utd but lost 1-0. The rest of their recent results are probably as good as ours, as far as we can tell at this early stage. | | | |
| Oxford Utd Reflection on 14:11 - Oct 2 with 217 views | LongRanger |
Very disappointing result, as Oxford were so poor and should go down this year, but they clearly set out for a clean sheet, with anything more being a bonus. Ultimately JS got it wrong, Hayden and Field are too similar, make the same runs, and in the end neither are effective, the wingers were too narrow and Frey and Kone aren't going to work together. Frey had 30mins in him, so shouldn't have started, he did ok for 30mins, but was then cooked, should have been coming on after 60mins.
One of those results, hugely frustrating but we take the point and move on. | | | |
| Oxford Utd Reflection on 14:44 - Oct 2 with 143 views | Paddyhoops |
I thinks it’s progress that Madsen is now the answer to a lot of our problems rather than poor vilified soul he was a few short weeks ago .
That in itself is a win from last night.
I thought Oxford defended excellently last night. They did didn’t have a lot else. | | | |
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| Oxford Utd Reflection on 14:54 - Oct 2 with 119 views | Spaghetti_Hoops |
| Oxford Utd Reflection on 12:42 - Oct 2 by E15Hoop |
Not that I understand how this works, but according to Steve Brown on Radio London, our xG last night was 0.015, whilst Oxford's was a record breaking 0.00! |
Opta have it 0.77 to 0.40 but they somehow missed two shots on target by Frey that the goalkeeper had to save. The BBC have it 0.8 to 0.37 but us with only one shot on target which is also wrong. Perhaps it was a boring match compared with recent home games. But I didn't see those and last night I thought we played OK. Normal QPR imo. Oxford just good at defending on the night and us not quite with enough to break through. At Bristol City presumably they'll attack us more and we'll have less of the ball but better scoring chances. That's the championship, win or lose like a toss of a coin. | | | |
| Oxford Utd Reflection on 14:55 - Oct 2 with 114 views | derbyhoop |
| Oxford Utd Reflection on 09:10 - Oct 2 by Beckenhamhoop |
Picking Field and Hayden together was not a selection based on winning a football match rather it was made simply to appease two senior members of the squad who weren’t getting any minutes in the team and hoping everything would work out. |
It was a stodge. Neither are creative so we were ways going to struggle to cut open a well organised defensive side. I don't think it's a selection JS will use much in the future. Maybe if we're winning by the odd goal away from home. |  |
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| Oxford Utd Reflection on 15:08 - Oct 2 with 96 views | Spaghetti_Hoops |
| Oxford Utd Reflection on 02:16 - Oct 2 by stainrods_elbow |
What about aspiration - is that a 'schoolboy error' too? |
Aspiration's good but all 24 teams and their supporters have aspirations. We are all fighting each other trying to climb higher up the greasy pole at the others expense. Extra aspiration doesn't get us anywhere. What we need is a superb manager and coaches who for whatever reason want to work for a club with a limited budget, some way of tempting better players to QPR for ordinary money and a lot of luck.
Now if you can come up with the answers to these things you would find us all ears and I promise we would all heap praise upon you. [Post edited 2 Oct 15:10]
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