For the second successive home game, the Claret failed to register a goal and had to settle for a point in a 0-0 draw, this time against a Queens Park Rangers side who sit next to bottom in the table.
QPR, the one team who beat us at the Turf two seasons ago in our runaway promotion season, the only team to win a Championship game against us at home since Preston in December 2015, this was, we thought, we hoped, would be the day we got our revenge for that defeat and gave them a sound beating. After all, this is a struggling QPR side who are in the bottom two.
The reality was, unfortunately, another 0-0 home draw to follow the one against Preston in the last home game. It might well have been a game we should have won, but we didn?t. We didn?t trouble their goalkeeper anything like enough and long before the end it became clear that this was going to be another disappointing afternoon. Scott Parker had made two changes to the team that drew at Hull last Wednesday, Bashir Humphreys and Josh Laurent coming in as we reverted to the team that had won at Hillsborough a week earlier. Lucas Pires and Hannibal were back on the bench in an overall unchanged squad.
Embed from Getty ImagesIt all started brightly enough and we had an early chance when Laurent played a superb ball for Jaidon Anthony to run onto from the left. As we all prepared to celebrate the opening goal, Paul Smyth got in to block his effort.
Soon afterwards, a goal was even closer following a poorly taken right win...