Post by Macmoish on Mar 18, 2012 7:21:09 GMT
Nikki Bull, John Newall, Alex Dick, Terry McFlynn, Carlos Brown, Oliver Burgess, Daniel Wright, Justin Cochrane, Richard Pacquette, Alvin Bubb, Ben Walshe.
Subs not used - Marcel Nugent, Adam Rustem, Ryan D’Austin, Patrick Gradley, Danny Murphy.
QPR Official Site - March 1999
YOUTHS DENIED FAMOUS VICTORY
RANGERS 2 (Bubb 10, Pacquette 80)
NOTTINGHAM FOREST 2(Reid 67, Cash 90) Rangers were denied a famous victory in the Fifth Round of the Times FA Youth Cup by a Nottingham Forest equaliser two minutes into injury time. The attendance was 493 and the replay date is this coming Wednesday, March 24, at the City Ground (7pm).
Youth team boss Warren Neill said:" Obviously when a team scores against you that late, you feel as if you’ve lost the game. Our lads were a bit down in the dressing room after the final whistle, especially the younger players who came straight from school to play for us. Although it is a painful experience, it is invaluable in their learning curve towards becoming a professional footballer.
" We set out our stall to keep it nice and solid. We knew Forest were a good side. We’d had them watched and they are very powerful and very good at passing it around. So we had to play a bit like an away side, especially with the young team that we had available, and we tried to hit them on the counter-attack. It worked for 92 minutes!
"We opened the scoring early on with a very well taken goal. Richard Pacquette showed a good appreciation of where Alvin Bubb was in the middle, and Alvin tucked away the cross very nicely.
"We were under a bit of pressure from Forest in the first half. They kept changing the play very quickly and keeper Nikki Bull made some good saves for us. I thought we played a lot better in the second half, but Forest came back with a goal that was a comedy of errors. We had a free-kick on the halfway line, and we took it quickly when we had no need. So we lost the ball, then our keeper miskicked it, and it went out for a corner from which they scored. So that was down to our own bad play rather than good play from Forest.
"But we came back with a second goal from a set play with 10 minutes to go. Terry McFlynn, who had an excellent game, was very quick on the ball. He flicked it over the defender for Alvin, who hit it and the keeper pushed the ball on to the bar. Richard Pacquette was there to turn it in. Obviously we thought that was going to be the winning goal.
" It was very hard for the lads to take the injury time equaliser by Forest. A lot of the younger boys were tired, and when you get tired you switch off mentally. Unfortunately, it was just a basic long throw and a flick on, which we had dealt with all night. But we just switched off and allowed them to equalise.
"Now we’ve got a tough replay up at the City Ground. But the lads have got nothing to worry about after their performance in Tuesday’s game. They did admirably for the club and we are looking forward to the replay. It will be a good experience for my boys to go up to Nottingham and if we can perform as sternly as we did in the first match, then who knows what will happen."
TEAM Nikki Bull, John Newall, Alex Dick, Terry McFlynn, Carlos Brown, Oliver Burgess, Daniel Wright, Justin Cochrane, Richard Pacquette, Alvin Bubb, Ben Walshe. Subs not used - Marcel Nugent, Adam Rustem, Ryan D’Austin, Patrick Gradley, Danny Murphy.
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Subs not used - Marcel Nugent, Adam Rustem, Ryan D’Austin, Patrick Gradley, Danny Murphy.
QPR Official Site - March 1999
YOUTHS DENIED FAMOUS VICTORY
RANGERS 2 (Bubb 10, Pacquette 80)
NOTTINGHAM FOREST 2(Reid 67, Cash 90) Rangers were denied a famous victory in the Fifth Round of the Times FA Youth Cup by a Nottingham Forest equaliser two minutes into injury time. The attendance was 493 and the replay date is this coming Wednesday, March 24, at the City Ground (7pm).
Youth team boss Warren Neill said:" Obviously when a team scores against you that late, you feel as if you’ve lost the game. Our lads were a bit down in the dressing room after the final whistle, especially the younger players who came straight from school to play for us. Although it is a painful experience, it is invaluable in their learning curve towards becoming a professional footballer.
" We set out our stall to keep it nice and solid. We knew Forest were a good side. We’d had them watched and they are very powerful and very good at passing it around. So we had to play a bit like an away side, especially with the young team that we had available, and we tried to hit them on the counter-attack. It worked for 92 minutes!
"We opened the scoring early on with a very well taken goal. Richard Pacquette showed a good appreciation of where Alvin Bubb was in the middle, and Alvin tucked away the cross very nicely.
"We were under a bit of pressure from Forest in the first half. They kept changing the play very quickly and keeper Nikki Bull made some good saves for us. I thought we played a lot better in the second half, but Forest came back with a goal that was a comedy of errors. We had a free-kick on the halfway line, and we took it quickly when we had no need. So we lost the ball, then our keeper miskicked it, and it went out for a corner from which they scored. So that was down to our own bad play rather than good play from Forest.
"But we came back with a second goal from a set play with 10 minutes to go. Terry McFlynn, who had an excellent game, was very quick on the ball. He flicked it over the defender for Alvin, who hit it and the keeper pushed the ball on to the bar. Richard Pacquette was there to turn it in. Obviously we thought that was going to be the winning goal.
" It was very hard for the lads to take the injury time equaliser by Forest. A lot of the younger boys were tired, and when you get tired you switch off mentally. Unfortunately, it was just a basic long throw and a flick on, which we had dealt with all night. But we just switched off and allowed them to equalise.
"Now we’ve got a tough replay up at the City Ground. But the lads have got nothing to worry about after their performance in Tuesday’s game. They did admirably for the club and we are looking forward to the replay. It will be a good experience for my boys to go up to Nottingham and if we can perform as sternly as we did in the first match, then who knows what will happen."
TEAM Nikki Bull, John Newall, Alex Dick, Terry McFlynn, Carlos Brown, Oliver Burgess, Daniel Wright, Justin Cochrane, Richard Pacquette, Alvin Bubb, Ben Walshe. Subs not used - Marcel Nugent, Adam Rustem, Ryan D’Austin, Patrick Gradley, Danny Murphy.
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