The next game was a home game against Preston.
In the last post, I did mention about the bad home form the squad was in.Because of that, I had an uneasy feeling going into the match and decided to make a twist in formation by playing 3 forwards with Jay Simpson, Salvio and Helguson all starting upfront.
It was a bold move, a successful one nonetheless as two of the strikers scored and Salvio set up one of the goal.Cerny could have won the team another clean sheet before Chris Sedgwick scored a rebound goal.
The bad news for the next few games were the team failed to keep clean sheet yet again. 4 games in a row, the team had conceded a goal.
The good news , however, was we managed to get 9 points out of the next 3 games.
Call it coincidence, it's 4 league games in a row(including the game against Preston), we are winning with the same scoreline - 2 -1. A win is a win, I will take it any day.
Before the match of Leicester was a game in League cup against the Premier League team, Birmingham City.I have no high hope in winning this but I tried my best by putting in the best team I had and removed those with bad form, replacing them with those in form players.
We won the game.But the truth is, we were a bit lucky in that match.
According to the match stats, they had more possession than my team did.However, due to the fact that their strikers were not in form, they only had 2 shots on target.Lucky us. Haha.
Not only more possession, they also had more shots than my team did but what makes difference here was the fact that all our shots are on target with only 3 getting blocked out by their defenders.
At the end of the day, QUALITY of possession and shots beats QUANTITY.
Summary Of October
In October, the team managed to snatch 4 wins and had only one game draw.The most impressive player in this month was the long shot specialist of the team, Buzsaky.
He scored an impressive 3 goals and 1 assist in 4 matches.He made a huge impact.
On a side note, did Christmas come earlier this season?
I won the Coca-Cola Championship Manager of the Month award despite not winning all of the matches.Feeling curious, I went on to check only to find out that Middlesbrough, West Brom and Newcastle United all slipped up and lose 1 match out of the five matches played.Thanks to that I got the award.I can't wait for the next transfer window to come because I need more strike force!
3 comments:
You've had a great month there. The draw with Swansea is no great surprise to me, as I've always found them hard to score against. In my game we managed to sneak a 1-0 win and the home tie was a 0-0 draw. There is something about them seems to cause QPR a problem.
Buzsaky is one of those players that can suddenly produce an almost magical long shot out of nowhere. His free kick taking can also be special at times. He might not be fast, but he still performs well in the premiership.
One thing I'm intrigued to know is how things are at left back, because I have a poor opinion of Borrowdale. Does Connolly cover left back well enough?
Hi there Ziggy,yeap Buzsaky is one of those magical player on field that can light a little magic to change the game.An integral player I would say.
For the left back position, yes, Borrowdale is not good enough to play all season long.He had been shaky for the 1st few game before I decided to play De Laet(I loaned him) ahead of him.When De Laet injured, cup-tied or suspended, Connolly will take over his place and he did his job well enough.In terms of performance in left back position, it's gonna be
De Laet > Connolly > Borrowdale.
So, are you managing QPR too? Already promoted to premiership?
I am managing QPR as well. We achieved 2nd place in the first season behind Newcastle. Your order of performance for the left back position sounds right. I got lucky at the start of the season by finding a good left back called Varrault cheaply, and a decent right back called Laure. This allowed Connolly, when fit, to play as a centre back, which he is best at. I made a couple of other signings for the future and Jason Steele as backup goalkeeper.
Cerny got injured in October I think, and Steele, even at only 20 turned out to be better, mainly because his distribution was so much better. For some reason in the game Cerny's poor distribution leads to the ball being lost too cheaply.
All this stuff is in my own blog. It's great to see the slightly different approach someone else has made to managing the same team.
I am also a real life fan of QPR, so have a good idea about most of the players before starting. In game Balanta has developed a lot quicker than in real life, and partnered Simpson up front for me to great effect.
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