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Hello everybody,

It’s my time to report about Q.P.R. progress in 3 tournaments: Premier League, FA Cup, and Europa League. I should say I hardly set priorities between them. FA Cup seems the easiest for us to win. Winning Europa League would be a great success for European debut. Highly set bar of the 5th place in the last Premier League demands to repeat the result at least… But PL competition is very high.

I hope you will help me with priorities for the tournamnets writing some comments!

Q.P.R. matches

I would call the reported time period as almost excellent. It could be better if QPR would get at least draws in away matches against Arsenal and Man City.

13 matches: 9 wins, 2 draws, 2 losses

We progressed into Europa League semifinals what seems as a great achievement for European debutant. Sevilla was the toughest opponent on our way, and I even devoted 2 special posts to the matches against Spanish club in my additional blog:

- Sevilla analysis

- QPR vs Sevilla

I like the way The Rangers has been performing in the Premier League. This season, normally we win our PL matches until meeting with an English top club on its stadium. There were 2 such games during the reported period.

The worst matches

I think the squad strength of the both grand clubs doesn’t allow to compete with them in away matches. It was really frustrating to feel helpless in the games against Arsenal and especially Man City. I need to improve QPR defense in future signing better players.

Almost failed FA Cup

Special words should be said about encounter with Leeds United in FA Cup quarterfinal. My guys nearly got out of the tournament due to my complancy. I set the second squad trying to get ready main players for the next match against Manchester City.  Read more about this accident and watch the saviour goal here:

In few seconds of FA Cup failure

Interesting that QPR revenged Leeds for lost nerves crushing them 5:0 at Loftus Road. Now we are again on the way to win our first trophy!

Premier League table

First of all you should see QPR has only 31 fixtures played. So my club should be located somewhere near the 5th position instead the 7th. But this season it seems Top 4 positions are very tough to win. All 6 English grand clubs are in great form now, and I cannot guarantee Q.P.R. will repeat the success of the last season (the 5th position).

Well, we’ll see. Currently Premier League situation is rather tangled.

Q.P.R. players

I am happy with my players and the way they have been performing. The only irritation can be expressed: Yaya Sanogo. Poor growth during tranings, inefficient performance on a pitch. Candidate for sale. I promise to make a squad analysis after the season to uncover weakest QPR areas and worst players.

Again and again, the best player was fantastic goal scorer Jay Rodriguez. He is going the 2nd in the Average Rating and Goal Scorers list of Premier League.

Lucas Digne

One of the best QPR footballers is certainly Lucas Digne. French wonderkid got February’s Young Player of the Month award. Digne is only 20 years old but looks already very awesome. I am pretty sure he is able to become a world-star!

Future matches

Beating Roma will be a tough task for us, of course. Though we have already managed to overcome strong Sevilla in a quite confident way. Why wouldn’t we do the same with the Italian team? It’s hard to predict whether Q.P.R. will win the Europa League this season, therefore I am keep silence for a while.

As for FA Cup, The Rangers are the main contenders here! All English grand clubs are already out of the tournament!

Premier League last matches will be really complicated due to matches against Tottenham, Chelsea, Liverpool. If Q.P.R. wins at least in two of them, Europa League place will be guaranteed. But, sure, I hope to qualify into Champions League.

Go The Rangers!

Excited to be blogginng for you,

Vitaliy Mokosiy

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- My Supersonic tactics 

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Hello my dear readers,

Another Q.P.R. story report today for you. Well, everything is fine regarding results now. But at the moment I would like to start with the transfer window overview.

Winter transfers

The board didn’t give me additional money leaving $8.5M I had unspent after the summer transfer window. So I was unable to spend much, and actually I didn’t want to do it because of the negative balance:

$-15M

Players out

I let many youngsters to go on loan due to high competition for the Reserves first eleven. My reserve keeper Boaz Myhill decided to leave the team due to lack of match practice.

Players in

Unfortunately, I didn’t buy any right back as it was intended. Merely there were no inexpensive footballers equal to Hinkel who would join QPR. I hope the situation will change in summer after club reputation growth.

Neverthless I managed to 2 decent Spanish players and weak Welsh goalie Jason Brown (as a second backup).

Juan Alonso Romero (SC)

Looking over the attributes, you understand why I spent $1.4M for this talented young striker. Just two words - high prospect!

Miguel Angel Moya (GK)

Moya is a decent backup goalie for the Rangers. He has already played one match (the one against Blackburn) and got a clean sheat. Main keeper Ospina is unavailable because of an injury.

Q.P.R. results

15 matches: 8 wins, 4 draws, 3 losses.

On the one hand, it’s only winter and all struggle is ahead in spring. But on the other hand, winter period is really significant in sense of getting good winning mood. Especially, I would like to emphasize on the matches between Christmas and New Year day. Q.P.R. played 4 games in 6 days and got 7 points! I think it’s a very good result for a club with media prediction of the 9th position

Two most bright matches were against grand clubs. I already reported about them in my additional blog, please watch Tottenham match video highlights containing many beautiful goals scored by QPR wonderkids:

- Chelsea - Q.P.R. 4:1

- Q.P.R - Tottenham 6:1

 

And now I want to overlook 3 other significant games.

Wolves won their 2nd match against us

Wolves is a club that ovecame the Rangers twice in the season. They are becoming a bone in throat for us.

Frankly speaking, I didn’t expect they will have such perceptible advantage at Loftus Road. Fast Leigh Griffiths teached a lesson my central defenders scoring two goals on speed. This match proved we are not ready to compete for the title.

Unlucky. It should be victory…

It was a game without main goalie Ospina. And I haven’t managed to sign backup Moya in time, therefore weak 3rd goalkeeper was playing. He conceded both very simple shorts on target; additionally, QPR attackers were not efficient in attack…

QPR has lost the 2nd position after this very unlucky game…

Surprize in Machachkala

Europa League 1st knockout round. Russian Anji was analysed and estimated by me as a strong attacking team with some weakness in defense. Their leader Samuel Eto’o and bunch of Brazilian midfielders multiplied on amount of scored goals in different tournaments looked somewhat frightening… But the Rangers proved to be much better than the opponent scoring 4 goals in the away match. Now I can select the backup players to the first eleven against Anji at Loftus Road.

Premier League table

Well, here is. Tough competition for the table top, and it’s too early to say something.

Q.P.R. players

My latest impression is the injury of David Ospina which influenced several matches. But soon he returns and everything is going to be fine with that.

As usually, Jay Rodriguez who can’t stop scoring goals is in nomination for my best player of the reported period award. But currently I would like to give it to Marco Verratti. Italian wonderkid made 7 assists in 9 last matches!

Additionally, I want to praise a guy bought for $21.5M in summer Alvaro Vadillo. Look at his average rating - it’s higher than Oscar’s one. But for a while Oscar is the main AMR in the team.

Fierro scored at first

Last but not least, I suggest you to take a look at the first official QPR goal of Carlos Fierro, the youngest talented striker I have. He is a person who can be another Jay Rodriguez in several years!

The closest future and my ambitions

My ambitions grow every day in this season I must confess. I feel the Rangers can be very competitive in Europa League. Therefore I have already started dreaming about…  final! Though Roma, Inter, Sevilla, Dortmund may argue against that  

I have a good chance in FA Cup because only Arsenal is still on the course to win it. Other grand clubs are eliminated from the tournament. So I really hope to lift the first trophy this season!

Premier League ambitions have also grown after capturing the 2nd position for 5 fixtures. It’s time to compete for Champions League places.

That’s all for now.

Excited to be blogging for you,

Vitaliy Mokosiy

Hi guys!

Another Q.P.R. story post today. I am excited to share the latest news because my team plays beautiful football and gains results which nobody expected before the season.

11 matches: 7 wins, 2 draws, 2 losses.

Premier League matches

First of all I want to emphasize on my first victory over Manchester City. It was the even match but Jay Rodriguez and Ivelin Popov slightly overcame Man City’s attackers in efficiency scoring the decisive 3rd goal. I suppose Q.P.R. has confirmed its pretensions on a Top-4 place in this season instead of Europa League qualification!

We had several quite easy wins taking maximal points amount against Nottinham Forest, Sunderland, Stoke, West Brom, Aston Villa.

Only Liverpool as one of title contenders coped with our defense. Andy Carroll made a double and became man of the match. So you can consider the Anfield game as the worst one during the reported period.

Finally, Q.P.R. is located at the 2nd position in the table. It’s really awesome to see The Rangers here during the 3rd season! I hoped to get into Top-4 during the 4th season if you look into Q.P.R. story targets announced at the very start.

It’s strange to see Man City, Tottenham, Arsenal and Man Utd slightly behind the group of 3 leaders. Most likely the situation will change after December-January matches. I would even bet two Manchester clubs and Tottenham will join our title battle.

League Cup

Complete disappointment. It’s hard to understand how my guys managed to loose the home match vs Swansea! Just look at the stats:

Swansea (actually Espen Ruud) scored the goal from dangerous free kick. The Rangers didn’t answer.

Now I think it’s my mistake because I decided to give a rest to Jay Rodriguez putting Yaya Sanogo into the first eleven…

Europa League

OK, let’s forget about League Cup because I am enjoying Europa League Q.P.R. has one in their group, though it didn’t happen so confidently as I expected after a draw. But 11 points were enough to take the first position.

And now - draws of the next 2 rounds.

Rich Russian Anji still led by Samuel Eto’O is a very interesting opponent for the next round. Dangerous one I should say. They left behind Hannover in their group and scored 14 goals in 6 matches.

If we win against Russians, most likely mighty Sevilla will be awaiting us in the next round. I suppose there’s no need in commenting their strength.

Q.P.R. players

OK, now I want to show some information about my players.

I have nobody to criticize this time. Actually any QPR player can receive a praise.

Again and again, Jay Rodriguez is the best performer in the squad. This English talent is a real goal scoring machine!

But he is not leading in Premier League Goal Scorers rating as you would expect. Fantastic Edison Cavani proves he can be better than Rooney having 23 goals in 16 matches!!!

Am I going to make transfers in winter?

This is the question I asked myself. Well, the first position to strengthen coming on my mind is DR. Right back Andreas Hinkel is a cool guy of course… But he is not becoming younger. Andreas will celebrate his 32nd birthday in March. His backup Jordan Spence is worse as a right back who should join attacks and cross balls pretty often. Therefore I will try to consider some candidates and arrange a transfer of DR.

Perhaps I will buy few cheap talented younsters to the Reserves as well.

Upcoming matches

You see my next 4 matches are difficult and really important. I think the results in the matches can influence our fate in the Premier League much. So I am concentrated on the Christmas period now.

Excited to be blogging for you,

Vitaliy Mokosiy