After the excitement of two away wins and Lucas' stunning goal at Preston today was crashing to earth. Swansea were much the better team for the first 70 minutes. They dominated possession, pressed energetically and gave Rs few opportunities to get forward. They deserved the 2-0 lead. In the last 20 minutes when our subs were on we looked better, created the goal and had more possession. But Swansea were hungrier, played with more intensity and ran more.

We missed some muscle from Field or Varane to support Colback. He's looked good recently but 2 games in 4 days maybe a lot for ageing legs. Fox was
poor at the back but perhaps had something of an excuse only starting because Varane had a problem in the warm up.

We've had some erratic refs this season but Simpson was one of the worst I've seen. Inconsistencies all the time and in his eyes Rs committed 19 fouls which must be more than we usually concede without doing anything different, indeed without Field or Varane on the pitch. He did at least give us 8 minutes of extra time.

Jimmy Dunne may have been at fault for the second goal, he seemed to leave an awful lot of space behind him in the penalty area for Swansea to exploit but otherwise was probably our best player.

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Watching QPR players try to play the ball out from the back is soul destroying.

Any opposition manager who has done their homework would simply say, prior to the game, "high press lads, they can't cope'.

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