QPR face down Coventry City ‘nightmare’ as deserved goal claim made
The Sky Blues are still looking for a first away win as struggling Queens Park Rangers hit back to claim a draw at Loftus Road
QPR boss Marti Cifuentes acknowledged the “nightmare” Coventry City had posed his team at Loftus Road before the hosts hit back to claim a point.
Teenager Kieran Morgan’s first career goal secured a 1-1 draw for Rangers and also helped lift them off the foot of the Sky Bet Championship table. However, the draw saw City drop into the bottom three.
Morgan, released by Tottenham in the summer, was making just his second substitute appearance when he replied to Haji Wright’s early strike for the Sky Blues. But Rangers boss Cifuentes admitted things had looked grave for his team before Morgan intervened.
He told the QPR website: “The start was a nightmare. From our corner kick it becomes a counter for them. We had several possibilities to clear the ball properly but we don’t, so we concede a deserved goal, so it was a terrible start to the game.”
Morgan struck on 63 minutes, but even then Cifuentes was not totally happy, adding: “It was not a perfect performance, far from it. But at the same time I felt the team really understood what is needed to get out of the situation where we are and our fans as well understood, and they were definitely encouraging.
“Since I arrived this team has never been giving up and always trying to compete, and some games we achieved what we wanted.”
