QPR picked up another pre-season win on Tuesday night with a 2-1 win at League One side Wycombe. Gavin Mahon and Patrick Agyemang were on the scoresheet at Adams Park.

QPR have another game tomorrow at Kettering for the reserve side when the likes of Pellicori are expected the feature, but tonight at Wycombe there was again no place for Faurlin and Buzsaky who are both said to be struggling with thigh injuries. The R’s did include French left back Gregory Vignal on the bench as part of his trial period from Lens.

Rangers surged into a two goal lead inside the first nine minutes. First Gavin Mahon stooped to head home Wayne Routledge’s cross, then seven minutes later Patrick Agyemang drilled home from 12 yards after a cross from Rowan Vine was only partially cleared. In front of roughly 1,200 QPR fans at Adams Park QPR’s first half performance is reported as being very good, although no further goals were added. Deep into the second half, with substitutions now littering the game, Wycombe did pull a goal back when Oliver was left unmarked at a quick free kick and scored.

Vignal played for more than half an hour in the second half as he attempts to win a deal while new signing Adel Taarabt replaced Rowan Vine for the final 20 minutes or so.

Manager Jim Magilton expressed his delight with the performance after the game, telling the club’s official website: “I think we raised it a level tonight. We scored two good goals but overall our play was fantastic at times. We restricted them to very few chances of note and the only real disappointment was conceding late on. We want to pride ourselves on keeping clean sheets, but the changes disrupted us again so I have to accept that.

“ The work rate was great. We have come through injury free again and since day one the attitude of the players and their application has been first class. There’s another fixture tomorrow night when other lads will have a chance to impress – that is what pre-season is all about. There is great competition for places and that can only be healthy for the football club.”

Wycombe: Young (Shearer 46), Mousinho, Cobb, Duberry, Westwood, Bloomfield (Phillips 58), Doherty (Oliver 61), Montrose, Westlake (Daly 88), Pittman (Harrold 46), Beavon (Zebroski 58)
Subs not used: Fitchett, Lewis
Goals: Oliver 83

QPR: Cerny, Ramage, Hall, Gorkss, Connolly (Vignal 56), Routledge (Parker 83), Rowlands (Alberti 83), Mahon, Balanta, Vine (Taarabt 68), Agyemang (German 83)
Subs not used: Putnins, Brown, Oastler
Goals: Mahon 2, Agyemang 9

In former QPR news today Tim Breaker, who played and coached a Loftus Road, has been appointed as assistant manager of Charlton Athletic who were relegated from the Championship last season. Breaker’s former boss at Rangers Ian Holloway is enduring a difficult pre-season with Blackpool and locked his team in the dressing room for a rant following a 1-1 friendly draw at Rochdale over the weekend. Holloway said: “It's about everyone understanding what I will accept from my players. I felt that in the second half not everyone worked as hard as the others. It wasn't necessarily the trialists' fault, it was some of our lot. I'm very proud to be at this club and the lads can't think that's acceptable. I have to be blunt with the players. I asked them if they thought they all worked as hard as the others and they said 'no'. I'm asking for the right response from them in the next few games. At least now they know what I will say, and what I'm not scared to say. I want them to follow my lead and put things right on the pitch.” Blackpool face QPR in the first game of the new season a week on Saturday.

Elsewhere in the Championship today Ipswich have completed the signing of Liverpool trainee Shane O’Connor on a one year deal. Plymouth have beaten Aberdeen to the signing of Benin international defender Reda Johnson from Amiens. Finally the farce has deepened at Newcastle with the Singapore based consortium interested in buying the club, fronted by former Liverpool man Steve McMahon, has pulled out of the running to buy the club. Obefami Martins has been linked with a move to Wolfsburg.

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