|
Post by Football News on Apr 4, 2015 16:31:50 GMT
QPR reignite Premier League survival bid with West Bromwich Albion demolition
West Brom 1 - 4 QPRVictor Anichebe 58 Eduardo Vargas 15 Charlie Austin 37 Bobby Zamora 43 Joey Barton 90 +4:52 Bobby Zamora scores QPR's third goal against West Brom in the Premier league match at The Hawthorns Maybe there is hope for Queens Park Rangers yet. Relegation favourites at the start of the day, QPR finished it only one point from safety and wishing that they could play West Bromwich Albion every week. Albion were blown away inside the opening 45 minutes on an afternoon when Bobby Zamora filed a contender for goal of the season and Joey Barton added a late fourth. It was that sort of day for QPR as first-half goals from Eduardo Vargas, Charlie Austin and Zamora set Chris Ramsey’s side up for a second away win of the season and planted a few seeds of doubt into Albion minds in the process. With a trip to fellow strugglers Aston Villa to come on Tuesday night, this was a timely shot in the arm for the visitors. As for Albion, they must be sick of the sight of QPR and Austin in particular. The QPR striker scored a hat-trick in a 3-2 win at Loftus Road in December and he took his tally for the season to 16 with a routine header. To put it another way, a quarter of Austin’s Premier League goals this season have come against the Midlands club. Tony Pulis’s side remain eight points clear of the relegation zone but there is little comfort to be found in a fixture list that sees them take on Liverpool, Manchester United, Chelsea and Arsenal in four of their last five matches. Victor Anichebe scored early in the second half here but the Albion comeback never materialised and a miserable day for the home team was complete when Youssouf Mulumbu received a straight red card for elbowing Barton. QPR were in dreamland by the interval. Zamora’s goal, three minutes before the break, put the visitors 3-0 up and it is hard to imagine he has scored many better. Running onto Matty Phillips’ measured pass, Zamora outpaced Joleon Lescott in the inside right channel and, without breaking stride, took the ball early, nonchalantly, and quite brilliantly, flicking it with the outside of his left boot over the head of Boaz Myhill and into the far corner of the net via the underside of the crossbar. The signs had been worrying for Albion long before that. There were only 15 minutes on the clock when Vargas gave QPR the lead with another fine individual goal. Latching onto Austin’s flick on, Vargas got to the ball ahead of Chris Baird, drifted inside, took a couple of touches and wrapped his right foot round the ball to send a dipping 25-yard shot across goal and into the corner. Although Brown Ideye had a couple of decent chances for Albion either side of that goal, the home team looked flat and QPR soon added a second. Phillips swung in a corner from the right, Niko Kranjcar, on for the injured Vargas, flicked the ball on and Austin, arriving at the back post unmarked, had the straightforward task of heading home. Desperate to inject some fresh life into Albion, Pulis introduced Anichebe at the start of the second half and was rewarded with a goal 13 minutes later. Saido Berahino showed pace and persistence on the Albion left before digging out a right-footed cross that Anichebe, from about eight yards out, headed beyond Robert Green. Ideye and Berahino both had opportunities to pull a second goal back before Albion were reduced to 10 men when Mulumbu, who had only been on the pitch for 11 minutes, caught Barton with an elbow in an aerial challenge. Barton, however, was not finished and drilled in QPR’s fourth in injury-time after some shambolic defending. Guardian
|
|
3in11
Monster Midfielder
No easy games in this league.
Posts: 1,773
|
Post by 3in11 on Apr 4, 2015 17:36:39 GMT
Don't suppose many people saw that one coming...... The tragedy for Rangers is that Leicester won too. It's getting interesting though ('interesting'is a lot better than 'worrying', isn't it?) when teams at the bottom suddenly click and look like the real deal again after fannying about for most of the season.
|
|
|
Post by jimmy on Apr 4, 2015 17:58:58 GMT
Don't suppose many people saw that one coming...... The tragedy for Rangers is that Leicester won too. It's getting interesting though ('interesting'is a lot better than 'worrying', isn't it?) when teams at the bottom suddenly click and look like the real deal again after fannying about for most of the season. Or the tragedy for Leicester.
|
|