One Year Ago Today: QPR Crushed Southampton

[QPR Report]

Have we made progress over the past year, or what?
-- And just to note that this QPR team also had injuries: Buzsaky not yet recovered. Vine out. Hall out and "New signing Damiano Tommasi is not match fit."

September 14, 2008.... 13,770 saw the televized-live 4-1 victory by Iain Dowie's QPR over Southampton at Loftus Road, which included two goals by ex-Southampton striker, Dexter Blackstock. After five games, QPR had 10 points and moved up to fourth.

QPR: Cerny, Delaney, Stewart, Mahon, Leigertwood, Parejo (Rowlands 59), Blackstock, Ramage, Connolly, Cook, Ephraim (Agyemang 59).
Subs: Camp, Gorkss, Balanta.

Scorers: Blackstock (1) (76), Stewart (62), Agyemang (90)

Southampton: Davis, Wotton, Surman, Holmes (Dyer 22), McGoldrick, Schneiderlin (Pekhart 68), Lallana, Gillett, James, Lancashire, Cork. Subs: Bialkowski, Perry, John.
Scorers: Lallana (53)
Bookings: Schneiderlin (63), Dyer (65) Sendings off: Lancashire (29)

Match Reports and Managerial Comments of QPR 4 Southampton 1
qprreport.blogspot.com/2008/09/qpr-up-to-fourth-after-defeating.html

[cpr]

The scoreline may imply we crushed them.

The game showed we did not, saints were a decent footballing side and were unlucky.