Post by sharky on Aug 30, 2014 16:25:43 GMT
6 Years today - August 30, 2014
rom the BBC
QPR 1 Sunderland 0
Queens Park Rangers
01 Green
14 Isla
04 Caulker
05 Ferdinand
06 Hill
07 Phillips
17 Mutch Booked
08 Barton
23 Hoilett (Traore - 83' )
10 Fer (Taarabt - 90' )
09 Austin (Zamora - 69' )
Substitutes
03 Traore
15 Onuoha
20 Henry
21 Murphy
22 Dunne
25 Zamora
27 Taarabt
www.bbc.com/sport/0/football/28906777
Queens Park Rangers claimed their first win of the season as Charlie Austin's goal gave them victory over Sunderland.
Rangers came into the game off the back of three straight defeats, in which they had not managed a single goal.
But Austin - leading the line in the absence of Loic Remy, who was withdrawn from the home starting XI ahead of a move to Chelsea - ended that run with a close-range strike following a corner.
Sunderland battled hard but fell to their first defeat of the season.
QPR had to wait until mid-December for their first league win during their last Premier League campaign in 2012-13.
That they have achieved this feat a full three-and-a-half months earlier this time around will give them hope of avoiding a repeat of their relegation of two seasons ago.
It was far from a cohesive performance from Rangers, who have still yet to work out their best formation or starting XI (the closing of the transfer window on Monday will help), but there were significant improvements from their first two league matches of the season, particularly their 4-0 mauling at the hands of Tottenham last weekend.
Harry Redknapp began the season using the much-discussed and often maligned 3-5-2 formation, currently being put to largely ineffective use at Manchester United by Louis van Gaal.
However, where as Van Gaal seems intent on persevering with the system, three straight defeats without having scored a goal was enough for Redknapp, who switched to a more familiar back four and a three-man attack.
Remy was a part of that frontline until 12pm, when the club accepted a release clause triggering offer for the player - reportedly from Chelsea - thus prompting his withdrawal and seemingly the end of his career at Loftus Road.
Remy had scored QPR's last three goals in the Premier League, going back to the end of the 2012/13 season and his intelligent movement and attacking instinct was missed by the home side.
Fortunately for them, they also have last season's 20-goal top-scorer Austin in their ranks and the striker proved the match-winner on his return to the side following a hamstring injury.
In first-half added time, Joey Barton's corner was met at the far post by Leroy Fer, who had earlier hit the crossbar with a powerful 30-yard drive, and his cushioned header was the perfect set-up for Austin to smash the ball into the roof of the net from 10 yards.
The goal, and its timing, was a huge blow to the visitors, who had looked the more composed side for much of the first half.
The returning Adam Johnson was a lively presence, creating two good openings with neat through-balls but neither Steven Fletcher nor Patrick van Aanholt could make the most of them, with the former seeing his shot saved by Robert Green and the latter looping his effort over the bar.
QPR had more control in the second half forcing their opponents to increasingly levels of desperation.
The Black Cats finished the game with a host of forwards on the pitch including Jozy Altidore and Emanuele Giaccherini.
The Italian came the closest to earning his side a point but his powerful 25-yard shot was palmed away superbly by the diving Green to ensure that QPR sealed just a fifth win in 43 Premier League games.
From london24
www.london24.com/sport/football/clubs/qpr/qpr_boss_excited_about_striking_talent_despite_remy_departure_1_3751209
QPR boss excited about striking talent despite Remy departure
13:05 31 August 2014
Charlie Austin celebrates his goal (Photo by Paul Gilham/Getty Images)
Harry Redknapp has backed Charlie Austin to become the latest former non-League star to make a successful transition to life in the top-flight.
Bricklayer-turned-goalscorer Austin handed QPR Barclays Premier League lift-off on Saturday, firing his first top-level goal in a 1-0 home victory over Sunderland.
The 25-year-old’s powerful drive ended QPR’s 315-minute goal drought at the start of the new campaign, easing pressure on boss Redknapp.
QPR are expected to sign a replacement striker for Chelsea-bound Loic Remy before Monday’s transfer window closure, but still backed Austin to make the Premier League grade.
“There are lots of strikers that have come out of lower-league football,” said Redknapp, of the former Kintbury striker.
“Obviously recently there’s the likes of Rickie Lambert and before that Kevin Phillips, and it’s great to see that hopefully chances are still there to move through the levels.
“And hopefully Charlie can be another who does the same thing in the long term.
“He took his goal very well, it’s great for him.
“Thursday was the first time he’d trained for two weeks after his hamstring problem, so to get 60-odd minutes out of him was a bonus.”
Rangers’ club captain Clint Hill started Saturday’s vital victory in a re-jigged four-man defence, with Richard Dunne on the bench.
Redknapp started the season keen to favour 3-5-2, but has quickly shifted to a flat back four.
Summer recruit Rio Ferdinand will skipper Rangers as and when Hill is absent, and the 35-year-old was expected to battle for minutes on the field.
Redknapp hailed Hill’s pivotal contribution against the Black Cats though, especially for a match-saving block in the six-yard box.
“You can put your life on Clint can’t you, he’s such a great professional,” said Redknapp.
“He’s reliable and that’s so important for us, and he showed just what he offers.
“We’ve got to have competition in there, that’s vital.”
The Sunderland view from the Northern Echo
www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/sport/football/sunderland/read_article/11442839._/?
Sunderland deserved a point from QPR trip, argues Poyet
First published 14:00 Sunday 31 August 2014 in Sunderland
by Richard Mason, Sports Writer/Sub-Editor
GUS POYET felt that a draw would have been a fair result after his Sunderland side lost their first game this season.
Sunderland were beaten 1-0 at Queens Park Rangers after Charlie Austin’s first-half injury-time goal, but the Black Cats had chances of their own, which was some consolation to Poyet.
“I don’t think there was too much difference between the two teams,” said the Sunderland manager.
“They had a different way of playing and the difference was the goal. I think we started well in the game, we were in control, they couldn’t get the ball off us.
“We went back to basics, and that worked for the first 30 minutes, then we took a few risks at the end. If we had came back into the game you could say we probably deserved it, but that’s football. The goals are really expensive and it was one that made a difference.”
Austin’s goal came from a Joey Barton corner that Leroy Fer knocked into the former Burnley striker’s path, and Poyet was annoyed that his side were beaten so easily from a set-piece.
He said: “We didn’t expect that [to concede the way they did]. We had worked a lot on that.
“The timing of the goal didn’t help us. We put ourselves under pressure in the final ten minutes of the half, giving the ball away cheaply in our own half which we normally don’t do and that gave the momentum to QPR. When you give opportunities to other teams, especially in English football, sometimes they are the difference.”
metro.co.uk/2014/08/31/steven-fletcher-should-not-be-the-scapegoat-for-sunderlands-loss-at-qpr-4851637/?
Steven Fletcher should not be the scapegoat for Sunderland’s loss at QPR
David Boyle
Sunday 31 Aug 2014 10:00 am
So, just as the pessimist in me feared, Sunderland succumbed to a disappointing defeat at the hands of Queens Park Rangers at Loftus Road yesterday afternoon, an open game of football with chances aplenty for both sides.
Ultimately Charlie Austin’s goal in added time at the end of the first half was enough to give Harry Redknapp his first win of the new season, although it was a goal which was agonisingly poor to concede from a Sunderland perspective.
Firstly the defending of Joey Barton’s corner was pretty much non-existent, with no real tangible clearance made and Austin was allowed to hammer home a half-volley from the edge of the box.
Secondly, the management of the game from the away side was poor, almost naïve, not to be able to see out the half and go in at the break with the scores level was desperately disappointing.
Despite a prolonged period of domination in the second half, Sunderland were barely able to register a meaningful chance, with the best of a bad bunch falling to both Jack Rodwell and Emanuele Giaccherini who both hit shots straight at an untroubled Rob Green.
Steven Fletcher found himself as the fall-guy for Sunderland’s iffy performance on social media and whilst he certainly wasn’t great yesterday afternoon he was no-where near as bad as some made out and looked desperate for some actual noteworthy support from his midfield.
Connor Wickham was particularly wasteful when in possession of the football however I am a little reluctant to proportion too much blame at his feet given the role he was asked to play as Sunderland struggle to fill the Borini-shaped void on the left hand side of their attack.
Wickham certainly has the attributes to be effective in such a position, whether he has the application or desire however is another matter.
Gus Poyet’s decision to leave out Will Buckley for the more experienced Adam Johnson, who had previously been absent through illness, was the major talking point of his starting 11.
The Sunderland newbie can probably quite rightly feel a little aggrieved to have made way given his decent home debut against Manchester United, although Johnson did look likely to repay his manager’s faith, especially in the first half, with a number of decent runs, cutting in from the right hand side.
However they would come to nothing before the former England International did his usual trick and disappear from the game. New season, same old Johnson.
Sunderland weren’t awful by any stretch of the imagination and indeed, frustratingly, seem to be just a few quality additions away from a half-decent side. Whether or not we have left it too late in the transfer window remains to seen.
Read more: qprreport.proboards.com/thread/39857/years-ago-first-season-sunderland#ixzz5Pe4rCqKv
www.london24.com/sport/football/clubs/qpr/qpr_boss_excited_about_striking_talent_despite_remy_departure_1_3751209
QPR boss excited about striking talent despite Remy departure
13:05 31 August 2014
Charlie Austin celebrates his goal (Photo by Paul Gilham/Getty Images)
Harry Redknapp has backed Charlie Austin to become the latest former non-League star to make a successful transition to life in the top-flight.
Bricklayer-turned-goalscorer Austin handed QPR Barclays Premier League lift-off on Saturday, firing his first top-level goal in a 1-0 home victory over Sunderland.
The 25-year-old’s powerful drive ended QPR’s 315-minute goal drought at the start of the new campaign, easing pressure on boss Redknapp.
QPR are expected to sign a replacement striker for Chelsea-bound Loic Remy before Monday’s transfer window closure, but still backed Austin to make the Premier League grade.
“There are lots of strikers that have come out of lower-league football,” said Redknapp, of the former Kintbury striker.
“Obviously recently there’s the likes of Rickie Lambert and before that Kevin Phillips, and it’s great to see that hopefully chances are still there to move through the levels.
“And hopefully Charlie can be another who does the same thing in the long term.
“He took his goal very well, it’s great for him.
“Thursday was the first time he’d trained for two weeks after his hamstring problem, so to get 60-odd minutes out of him was a bonus.”
Rangers’ club captain Clint Hill started Saturday’s vital victory in a re-jigged four-man defence, with Richard Dunne on the bench.
Redknapp started the season keen to favour 3-5-2, but has quickly shifted to a flat back four.
Summer recruit Rio Ferdinand will skipper Rangers as and when Hill is absent, and the 35-year-old was expected to battle for minutes on the field.
Redknapp hailed Hill’s pivotal contribution against the Black Cats though, especially for a match-saving block in the six-yard box.
“You can put your life on Clint can’t you, he’s such a great professional,” said Redknapp.
“He’s reliable and that’s so important for us, and he showed just what he offers.
“We’ve got to have competition in there, that’s vital.”
Read more: qprreport.proboards.com/thread/39857/years-ago-first-season-sunderland#ixzz5Pe4uhNH0
rom the BBC
QPR 1 Sunderland 0
Queens Park Rangers
01 Green
14 Isla
04 Caulker
05 Ferdinand
06 Hill
07 Phillips
17 Mutch Booked
08 Barton
23 Hoilett (Traore - 83' )
10 Fer (Taarabt - 90' )
09 Austin (Zamora - 69' )
Substitutes
03 Traore
15 Onuoha
20 Henry
21 Murphy
22 Dunne
25 Zamora
27 Taarabt
www.bbc.com/sport/0/football/28906777
Queens Park Rangers claimed their first win of the season as Charlie Austin's goal gave them victory over Sunderland.
Rangers came into the game off the back of three straight defeats, in which they had not managed a single goal.
But Austin - leading the line in the absence of Loic Remy, who was withdrawn from the home starting XI ahead of a move to Chelsea - ended that run with a close-range strike following a corner.
Sunderland battled hard but fell to their first defeat of the season.
QPR had to wait until mid-December for their first league win during their last Premier League campaign in 2012-13.
That they have achieved this feat a full three-and-a-half months earlier this time around will give them hope of avoiding a repeat of their relegation of two seasons ago.
It was far from a cohesive performance from Rangers, who have still yet to work out their best formation or starting XI (the closing of the transfer window on Monday will help), but there were significant improvements from their first two league matches of the season, particularly their 4-0 mauling at the hands of Tottenham last weekend.
Harry Redknapp began the season using the much-discussed and often maligned 3-5-2 formation, currently being put to largely ineffective use at Manchester United by Louis van Gaal.
However, where as Van Gaal seems intent on persevering with the system, three straight defeats without having scored a goal was enough for Redknapp, who switched to a more familiar back four and a three-man attack.
Remy was a part of that frontline until 12pm, when the club accepted a release clause triggering offer for the player - reportedly from Chelsea - thus prompting his withdrawal and seemingly the end of his career at Loftus Road.
Remy had scored QPR's last three goals in the Premier League, going back to the end of the 2012/13 season and his intelligent movement and attacking instinct was missed by the home side.
Fortunately for them, they also have last season's 20-goal top-scorer Austin in their ranks and the striker proved the match-winner on his return to the side following a hamstring injury.
In first-half added time, Joey Barton's corner was met at the far post by Leroy Fer, who had earlier hit the crossbar with a powerful 30-yard drive, and his cushioned header was the perfect set-up for Austin to smash the ball into the roof of the net from 10 yards.
The goal, and its timing, was a huge blow to the visitors, who had looked the more composed side for much of the first half.
The returning Adam Johnson was a lively presence, creating two good openings with neat through-balls but neither Steven Fletcher nor Patrick van Aanholt could make the most of them, with the former seeing his shot saved by Robert Green and the latter looping his effort over the bar.
QPR had more control in the second half forcing their opponents to increasingly levels of desperation.
The Black Cats finished the game with a host of forwards on the pitch including Jozy Altidore and Emanuele Giaccherini.
The Italian came the closest to earning his side a point but his powerful 25-yard shot was palmed away superbly by the diving Green to ensure that QPR sealed just a fifth win in 43 Premier League games.
From london24
www.london24.com/sport/football/clubs/qpr/qpr_boss_excited_about_striking_talent_despite_remy_departure_1_3751209
QPR boss excited about striking talent despite Remy departure
13:05 31 August 2014
Charlie Austin celebrates his goal (Photo by Paul Gilham/Getty Images)
Harry Redknapp has backed Charlie Austin to become the latest former non-League star to make a successful transition to life in the top-flight.
Bricklayer-turned-goalscorer Austin handed QPR Barclays Premier League lift-off on Saturday, firing his first top-level goal in a 1-0 home victory over Sunderland.
The 25-year-old’s powerful drive ended QPR’s 315-minute goal drought at the start of the new campaign, easing pressure on boss Redknapp.
QPR are expected to sign a replacement striker for Chelsea-bound Loic Remy before Monday’s transfer window closure, but still backed Austin to make the Premier League grade.
“There are lots of strikers that have come out of lower-league football,” said Redknapp, of the former Kintbury striker.
“Obviously recently there’s the likes of Rickie Lambert and before that Kevin Phillips, and it’s great to see that hopefully chances are still there to move through the levels.
“And hopefully Charlie can be another who does the same thing in the long term.
“He took his goal very well, it’s great for him.
“Thursday was the first time he’d trained for two weeks after his hamstring problem, so to get 60-odd minutes out of him was a bonus.”
Rangers’ club captain Clint Hill started Saturday’s vital victory in a re-jigged four-man defence, with Richard Dunne on the bench.
Redknapp started the season keen to favour 3-5-2, but has quickly shifted to a flat back four.
Summer recruit Rio Ferdinand will skipper Rangers as and when Hill is absent, and the 35-year-old was expected to battle for minutes on the field.
Redknapp hailed Hill’s pivotal contribution against the Black Cats though, especially for a match-saving block in the six-yard box.
“You can put your life on Clint can’t you, he’s such a great professional,” said Redknapp.
“He’s reliable and that’s so important for us, and he showed just what he offers.
“We’ve got to have competition in there, that’s vital.”
The Sunderland view from the Northern Echo
www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/sport/football/sunderland/read_article/11442839._/?
Sunderland deserved a point from QPR trip, argues Poyet
First published 14:00 Sunday 31 August 2014 in Sunderland
by Richard Mason, Sports Writer/Sub-Editor
GUS POYET felt that a draw would have been a fair result after his Sunderland side lost their first game this season.
Sunderland were beaten 1-0 at Queens Park Rangers after Charlie Austin’s first-half injury-time goal, but the Black Cats had chances of their own, which was some consolation to Poyet.
“I don’t think there was too much difference between the two teams,” said the Sunderland manager.
“They had a different way of playing and the difference was the goal. I think we started well in the game, we were in control, they couldn’t get the ball off us.
“We went back to basics, and that worked for the first 30 minutes, then we took a few risks at the end. If we had came back into the game you could say we probably deserved it, but that’s football. The goals are really expensive and it was one that made a difference.”
Austin’s goal came from a Joey Barton corner that Leroy Fer knocked into the former Burnley striker’s path, and Poyet was annoyed that his side were beaten so easily from a set-piece.
He said: “We didn’t expect that [to concede the way they did]. We had worked a lot on that.
“The timing of the goal didn’t help us. We put ourselves under pressure in the final ten minutes of the half, giving the ball away cheaply in our own half which we normally don’t do and that gave the momentum to QPR. When you give opportunities to other teams, especially in English football, sometimes they are the difference.”
metro.co.uk/2014/08/31/steven-fletcher-should-not-be-the-scapegoat-for-sunderlands-loss-at-qpr-4851637/?
Steven Fletcher should not be the scapegoat for Sunderland’s loss at QPR
David Boyle
Sunday 31 Aug 2014 10:00 am
So, just as the pessimist in me feared, Sunderland succumbed to a disappointing defeat at the hands of Queens Park Rangers at Loftus Road yesterday afternoon, an open game of football with chances aplenty for both sides.
Ultimately Charlie Austin’s goal in added time at the end of the first half was enough to give Harry Redknapp his first win of the new season, although it was a goal which was agonisingly poor to concede from a Sunderland perspective.
Firstly the defending of Joey Barton’s corner was pretty much non-existent, with no real tangible clearance made and Austin was allowed to hammer home a half-volley from the edge of the box.
Secondly, the management of the game from the away side was poor, almost naïve, not to be able to see out the half and go in at the break with the scores level was desperately disappointing.
Despite a prolonged period of domination in the second half, Sunderland were barely able to register a meaningful chance, with the best of a bad bunch falling to both Jack Rodwell and Emanuele Giaccherini who both hit shots straight at an untroubled Rob Green.
Steven Fletcher found himself as the fall-guy for Sunderland’s iffy performance on social media and whilst he certainly wasn’t great yesterday afternoon he was no-where near as bad as some made out and looked desperate for some actual noteworthy support from his midfield.
Connor Wickham was particularly wasteful when in possession of the football however I am a little reluctant to proportion too much blame at his feet given the role he was asked to play as Sunderland struggle to fill the Borini-shaped void on the left hand side of their attack.
Wickham certainly has the attributes to be effective in such a position, whether he has the application or desire however is another matter.
Gus Poyet’s decision to leave out Will Buckley for the more experienced Adam Johnson, who had previously been absent through illness, was the major talking point of his starting 11.
The Sunderland newbie can probably quite rightly feel a little aggrieved to have made way given his decent home debut against Manchester United, although Johnson did look likely to repay his manager’s faith, especially in the first half, with a number of decent runs, cutting in from the right hand side.
However they would come to nothing before the former England International did his usual trick and disappear from the game. New season, same old Johnson.
Sunderland weren’t awful by any stretch of the imagination and indeed, frustratingly, seem to be just a few quality additions away from a half-decent side. Whether or not we have left it too late in the transfer window remains to seen.
Read more: qprreport.proboards.com/thread/39857/years-ago-first-season-sunderland#ixzz5Pe4rCqKv
www.london24.com/sport/football/clubs/qpr/qpr_boss_excited_about_striking_talent_despite_remy_departure_1_3751209
QPR boss excited about striking talent despite Remy departure
13:05 31 August 2014
Charlie Austin celebrates his goal (Photo by Paul Gilham/Getty Images)
Harry Redknapp has backed Charlie Austin to become the latest former non-League star to make a successful transition to life in the top-flight.
Bricklayer-turned-goalscorer Austin handed QPR Barclays Premier League lift-off on Saturday, firing his first top-level goal in a 1-0 home victory over Sunderland.
The 25-year-old’s powerful drive ended QPR’s 315-minute goal drought at the start of the new campaign, easing pressure on boss Redknapp.
QPR are expected to sign a replacement striker for Chelsea-bound Loic Remy before Monday’s transfer window closure, but still backed Austin to make the Premier League grade.
“There are lots of strikers that have come out of lower-league football,” said Redknapp, of the former Kintbury striker.
“Obviously recently there’s the likes of Rickie Lambert and before that Kevin Phillips, and it’s great to see that hopefully chances are still there to move through the levels.
“And hopefully Charlie can be another who does the same thing in the long term.
“He took his goal very well, it’s great for him.
“Thursday was the first time he’d trained for two weeks after his hamstring problem, so to get 60-odd minutes out of him was a bonus.”
Rangers’ club captain Clint Hill started Saturday’s vital victory in a re-jigged four-man defence, with Richard Dunne on the bench.
Redknapp started the season keen to favour 3-5-2, but has quickly shifted to a flat back four.
Summer recruit Rio Ferdinand will skipper Rangers as and when Hill is absent, and the 35-year-old was expected to battle for minutes on the field.
Redknapp hailed Hill’s pivotal contribution against the Black Cats though, especially for a match-saving block in the six-yard box.
“You can put your life on Clint can’t you, he’s such a great professional,” said Redknapp.
“He’s reliable and that’s so important for us, and he showed just what he offers.
“We’ve got to have competition in there, that’s vital.”
Read more: qprreport.proboards.com/thread/39857/years-ago-first-season-sunderland#ixzz5Pe4uhNH0