QPR v Middlesbrough match thread

[erimus74]

The great Sir Bruce once said in one of his after Boro match interviews that you never look at a league table until after 10 games have been played well, after 13 games last season we were on 20 points, we're two points short of that at present & winning at QPR in our 14th game will see us on 21 points.
Last season we had our worst start for a number of seasons, losing our big players & introducing a good number of young inexperienced players, this season we have retained our better players we have less points & 5 fewer goals scored, we just don't look as though we are progressing & we continually look to the next game thinking, we'll come good

So following that shambles at home to Coventry City its a fast turnaround of midweek Championship fixtures as we travel to West London to face second bottom, winless at home QPR. Boro who are in 11th place & so will hopefully make amends for the Coventry game & bring 3 points back to Teesside

I think we can assume, due to Hayden Hackney seeing red that our own Peter Pan, Johnny Howson, will rightly keep his place alongside Morris & just as important, Diyksteel will hopefully keeps his place over Ayling, who had an awful game v Coventry

Fingers crossed Doak is back for the game resting Jones, who I think is such a confidence player going through a difficult period, unfortunately I can't see Forss being anywhere near the match day squad, never mind starting eleven
Another player that seems to have vanished off the face of the earth is Engel, I think he gets some undeserved stick & IMO is better than Borges but not sure how he is on the injury front, Carrick just tells us he's around the group, whatever that is suppose to mean

Not the best of records away to QPR, though we won there last season, but it took us until 2009 to record our first win at their ground & then another 3 wins, fingers crossed Tuesday we'll see our 5th win at Loftus road

I think over the next few games we will be approaching the crossroads of how our season will be defined, do we stick with the same mundane football & think, next week will be our turning point, or try & change the whole aspect of the way the coaching staff are asking the players to perform. When it does work it looks really good on the eye, which it did against Leeds, Norwich & at times Watford, maybe its not the problem we think it is, because even though we regularly concede we should be outscoring teams on average 2 goals per game, but then on the flipside, as teams easily fluster us it causes havoc, then we have the teams that sit deep allowing us the time & possession, even to the point of us having attempts on goal knowing more often than not, we wont capitalise, then catch us on the break & have chances to score. 
We just don't have enough in our game to have an answer for either scenario, we simply just keep on doing what we're doing in the hope it will come good eventually. We just cant seem to get any sort of consistency


11/1/1947 - Our 1st away match v QPR was for an FAC 3rd round fixture, Micky Fenton scored our goal in a 1-1 draw
Tuesday nights game will be the 31st fixture between both teams in West London with the following record
Won - 4
Drew - 14
Lost - 12
Goals scored - 35
Goals against - 59

18/3/1972 - Pat Lynch, who we signed from Cliftonville in June 1970, was the 1st Boro player to make a sub appearance then never feature again for the Boro when he replaced David Mills late in the 2nd half in our 1-0 defeat away to QPR. Pat Lynch later moved to Kidderminster harriers

2/1/1981 - Bobby Thomson made history when he became the 1st player to score an FAC goal on QPR's artificial pitch when he put the mighty Boro one up after 11 minutes, the game finished 1-1

5/12/2009 - We record our 1st ever victory at Loftus Road when Gordon Stracham's Boro won 5-1


Boro debuts/final Boro game v QPR

1/5/1971 – Registered No477 - Hugh McIlmoyle made his last appearance before moving to Preston North End in July drew 1-1
18/2/1972 – Registered No487 - Pat Lynch made his debut lost 1-0
1/4/1978 – Registered No515 - Alan Walsh made his debut after signing from Horden Colliery lost 1-0
19/9/1992 – Registered No623 - Brian Horne our 49th goalkeeper & 16th loaned player, 1st sub keeper, made his final appearance before returning to Millwall after loan period expired drew 3-3
11/9/2010 – Registered No806 - Mikael Tavaras our 48th loaned player - Loaned from Hamburg - 26th at the Riverside, made his debut lost 3-0
26/9/2020 – Registered No942 - Chubba Akpom scoring debut 1-1


Away penalties v QPR

18/1/1982 - Bobby Thomson became the clubs 47th different penalty goalscorer when scored the 1st FAC penalty on QPR's synthetic pitch – our 14th FAC penalty & 80th in total – drew 1-1
5/3/1983 - Mick Kennedy became the clubs 51st different penalty goalscorer when he scored our 82nd away penalty – lost 6-1
5/12/2009 – Leroy Lita became the clubs 82nd different penalty goalscorer when he scored our 113th away penalty – won 5-1


Some players who played for Boro & QPR

Sony Dieng
Dave Thomas
Don Masson
John O'Rourke
Albert Adomah
Emmaunel Ledesma

Neil Warnock has managed both teams

Bruce Rioch manager of the Boro & later assistant manager at QPR under Stewart Houston

[teamboro]

Great write up as usual Erimus so QPR are winless at home well typical Boro it will be there first home win on Tuesday I'm afraid

QPR 2-0 Mighty Reds

[LIDDLE_TOWERS999]

HOOPS  3  BORO 1


DIENG TO HAVE A NIGHTMARE AT HIS OLD CLUB....🙄🙄🙄

[TeessideTopgun]

All gonna click 👍
0-4 to QPR 😉

[Nosmo-King]

There one stand out game for me when we've PLAYED QPR.

6-2 from many a year ago. 2 down after a few minutes, Boro came roaring back to lead at half time.The days of the great Hughie McIlmoyle.

What a header of a ball. Whilst full details of the game are a bit hazy, I do recall it was one of the best games turned on its head by us.

[TeessideTopgun]

There one stand out game for me when we've PLAYED QPR.

6-2 from many a year ago. 2 down after a few minutes, Boro came roaring back to lead at half time.The days of the great Hughie McIlmoyle.

What a header of a ball. Whilst full details of the game are a bit hazy, I do recall it was one of the best games turned on its head by us.

Remember it well 👍

[Ayton Mews]

This one wasn't bad! The dream strike partnership of Dave Kitson and Leroy Lita


http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/eng_div_1/8389132.stm

[Redsteel (Moderator)]

1-3 Boro

[Johnny Thunder]

5-1

[newyddion]

0-1 to the mighty boro
(an own goal or a penna)

[Nosmo-King]

2-0 to The Hoops....

[erimus74]

Great write up as usual Erimus so QPR are winless at home well typical Boro it will be there first home win on Tuesday I'm afraid

QPR 2-0 Mighty Reds

Cheers teamboro

[erimus74]

Fingers crossed

[erimus74]

[Clem Fandango]

5-0 to QPR

 

[erimus74]

5-0 to QPR

 

😔

[erimus74]

According to oneboro VDB is out till after the international break, another who seems to be injury prone

[TommyDickfingers]

They're winless at home, we're just shite.

QPR 2 Boro 5

[erimus74]

C'mon Boro!

I think tonights game is massive, nothings won or loss in the month of November but following Saturdays game tonights game the Boro have to show that its behind them, regroup put in a good winning performance & look forward to the rest of the 4 winnable games this month, either side of the boring, boring international break

[LIDDLE_TOWERS999]

THE FACT THEY HAVE NOT WON AT HOME YET...PAINTS THE BIGGEST PICTURE EVER...WHEN YER A BORO FAN...🙄🙄🙄

[Ayton Mews]

3-1 Boro 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻

[erimus74]

My team

Dieng
Borges - not convinced so far but no Engel so no one else really
Dijksteel - A must for me
Edmundson - Good spell
Clarke - Wasnt his best saturday but not played much lately
Howson - Peter Pan
Morris - Cracking game v Coventry
McGree - Should have at least hit the target on Saturday
Conway - Cracking game v Coventry
Azaz - No one else until Gilbert is back

[newyddion]

My team

Brynn - Dieng looks like he's carrying an injury

Dijksteel - A must for me too
Ayling - the best i've seen him has been at CB
Edmundson - hasnt really put a foot wrong
McCormack - Borges looked like he was running through treacle

Howson - who else
Morris - does his job no bother
Hamilton - doesn't seem to put a foot wrong

Jones - always puts in a shift and causes problems
Burgzorg - unpredictable and has pace.. why not
McGree - looks better further up the pitch for me

[LIDDLE_TOWERS999]

My team



Jones - always puts in a shift and causes problems
Burgzorg - unpredictable and has pace.. why not

ARE YOU ON THE FUCKING PERSIAN RUGS KIDDA 🤔🤔🤔

[erimus74]

My team

Brynn - Dieng looks like he's carrying an injury

Dijksteel - A must for me too
Ayling - the best i've seen him has been at CB
Edmundson - hasnt really put a foot wrong
McCormack - Borges looked like he was running through treacle

Howson - who else
Morris - does his job no bother
Hamilton - doesn't seem to put a foot wrong

Jones - always puts in a shift and causes problems
Burgzorg - unpredictable and has pace.. why not
McGree - looks better further up the pitch for me

Thought of Brynn too but Carrick is to loyal, or stubborn & dont think Dieng will want to miss going back to his former club
Ayling not for me he was poor against Sheff Utd, his goalline clearance apart & terrible, cheating too against Coventry
McCormack, good shout, I thought the young lad but could be to risky in such an important game
Jones, such a confidenxe player, I've posted in here over the couple of years how much he is to us but his confidence, not ability is shot & needs to be taken away from the whole sep up to get gis head right
Burgzorg, whi I went on record to say hes going to be one im excited about but hes been poor

Others nentioned its a toss up really, try someone instead of Azaz & see what happens