Post by QPR Report on Nov 9, 2009 7:17:49 GMT
Earlier compilation of Sheff Wed vs QPR Reports - qprreport.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=general&action=display&thread=8011
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MIRROR - By Sarah Winterburn
QPR boss Jim Magilton is trying to turn big Kaspars Gorkss into Franz Beckenbauer but he was happy to celebrate a winning goal straight out of the Defenders' Handbook.
The no-nonsense Latvian centre-half is slowly adjusting to Magilton's vision of total football at Rangers but his first goal for the club was a trademark towering header from a set-piece.
It might not have been the free-flowing football that has become the hallmark of Magilton's QPR, but Gorkss knows that a team with promotion ambitions needs more than one trick up its sleeve.
"If nothing else works, then we need to return to the simple things like set-pieces," said Gorkss. "We haven't been particularly good this season at set-pieces - that's the first we've scored - so hopefully we can now improve on that.
"Maybe this wasn't the free-flowing football that we played against Preston or Reading but we need to win games like this as well when we come to places like Hillsborough. It's just as satisfying to win games this way.
"Before we were drawing or losing these type of games when we couldn't really play the football we wanted to, so it was nice to get this scrappy win. Three points are three points and we are very happy."
Gorkss admits it's been a steep learning curve since his summer move from Blackpool to a club where even keeper Radek Cerny chips advancing strikers rather than booting the ball up the pitch.
"I think the keeper is better than some of us with his feet!" says Gorkss. "Jim wants to play a lot with the ball and every player gets involved in the build-up.
"I haven't played with the ball so much in my life! Before, my main thing was to defend and head the ball, and now every defender is getting more involved with passing it.
"Jim wants everyone to be comfortable on the ball and just enjoy it, so that's what we're trying to do."
QPR certainly did that in an opening 10 minutes which left Wednesday shellshocked.
It was no surprise when the brilliant Adel Taarabt's reverse pass split the panicking Owls defence, leaving Jay Simpson with the relatively simple task of slotting the ball past Lee Grant for his seventh goal of the season.
If Wayne Routledge had shown the same composure two minutes later, when Taarabt released him in acres of space, then the game would have been dead and buried, but he dragged his shot onto the upright.
Wednesday woke up and their first foray into the QPR half brought a goal - Darren Potter releasing Jermaine Johnson, who celebrated his new contract with a neat finish.
Buoyed by the goal, the Owls began to get a foothold in the game and both Luke Varney and Tommy Miller hit the woodwork as QPR were denied the time to play their brand of passing football.
One counter-attack should have brought the winner but Ben Watson somehow contrived to miss from less than a yard.
With eight minutes left on the clock, Gorkss lumbered up from the back to score the winner, beating Richard Wood to Alejandro Faurlin's corner.
Transfer-listed Wood had been roundly booed when he came off the bench for Wednesday after turning down a new contract at the club.
"Richard's going to have to learn to deal with that because the crowd are disappointed in him," said Owls boss Brian Laws. "Personally I'm disappointed that a goal was scored by his marker."
Sheff Wed: Grant 7, Simek 6 (Wood, 72, 5), Buxton 7, Hinds 6, Spurr 6, Miller 7 (McAllister, 72, 5), Potter 6, O'Connor 6, Johnson 7 (Clarke, 76), Tudgay 6, Varney 7.
QPR: Cerny 6, Leigertwood 5, Gorkss 7, Hall 6 (Connolly, 27, 6), Ramage 6, Buzsaky 7 (Faurlin, 68), Watson 6, Mahon 6, Routledge 7, Taarabt 9 (Vine, 88), Simpson 7
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MIRROR - By Sarah Winterburn
QPR boss Jim Magilton is trying to turn big Kaspars Gorkss into Franz Beckenbauer but he was happy to celebrate a winning goal straight out of the Defenders' Handbook.
The no-nonsense Latvian centre-half is slowly adjusting to Magilton's vision of total football at Rangers but his first goal for the club was a trademark towering header from a set-piece.
It might not have been the free-flowing football that has become the hallmark of Magilton's QPR, but Gorkss knows that a team with promotion ambitions needs more than one trick up its sleeve.
"If nothing else works, then we need to return to the simple things like set-pieces," said Gorkss. "We haven't been particularly good this season at set-pieces - that's the first we've scored - so hopefully we can now improve on that.
"Maybe this wasn't the free-flowing football that we played against Preston or Reading but we need to win games like this as well when we come to places like Hillsborough. It's just as satisfying to win games this way.
"Before we were drawing or losing these type of games when we couldn't really play the football we wanted to, so it was nice to get this scrappy win. Three points are three points and we are very happy."
Gorkss admits it's been a steep learning curve since his summer move from Blackpool to a club where even keeper Radek Cerny chips advancing strikers rather than booting the ball up the pitch.
"I think the keeper is better than some of us with his feet!" says Gorkss. "Jim wants to play a lot with the ball and every player gets involved in the build-up.
"I haven't played with the ball so much in my life! Before, my main thing was to defend and head the ball, and now every defender is getting more involved with passing it.
"Jim wants everyone to be comfortable on the ball and just enjoy it, so that's what we're trying to do."
QPR certainly did that in an opening 10 minutes which left Wednesday shellshocked.
It was no surprise when the brilliant Adel Taarabt's reverse pass split the panicking Owls defence, leaving Jay Simpson with the relatively simple task of slotting the ball past Lee Grant for his seventh goal of the season.
If Wayne Routledge had shown the same composure two minutes later, when Taarabt released him in acres of space, then the game would have been dead and buried, but he dragged his shot onto the upright.
Wednesday woke up and their first foray into the QPR half brought a goal - Darren Potter releasing Jermaine Johnson, who celebrated his new contract with a neat finish.
Buoyed by the goal, the Owls began to get a foothold in the game and both Luke Varney and Tommy Miller hit the woodwork as QPR were denied the time to play their brand of passing football.
One counter-attack should have brought the winner but Ben Watson somehow contrived to miss from less than a yard.
With eight minutes left on the clock, Gorkss lumbered up from the back to score the winner, beating Richard Wood to Alejandro Faurlin's corner.
Transfer-listed Wood had been roundly booed when he came off the bench for Wednesday after turning down a new contract at the club.
"Richard's going to have to learn to deal with that because the crowd are disappointed in him," said Owls boss Brian Laws. "Personally I'm disappointed that a goal was scored by his marker."
Sheff Wed: Grant 7, Simek 6 (Wood, 72, 5), Buxton 7, Hinds 6, Spurr 6, Miller 7 (McAllister, 72, 5), Potter 6, O'Connor 6, Johnson 7 (Clarke, 76), Tudgay 6, Varney 7.
QPR: Cerny 6, Leigertwood 5, Gorkss 7, Hall 6 (Connolly, 27, 6), Ramage 6, Buzsaky 7 (Faurlin, 68), Watson 6, Mahon 6, Routledge 7, Taarabt 9 (Vine, 88), Simpson 7
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