Queens Park Rangers v Norwich City

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ood evening everyone and welcome back
to Loftus Road for tonight’s Championship
match, where Norwich City are our
opponents.
Having been relegated from the Premier League
last season, many predicted Norwich would be
there or thereabouts in the promotion shakeup.
As expected, they are in with a good chance
of making the play-offs along with a few other
teams, so will come here tonight looking to win
the game – especially after losing heavily up at
Middlesbrough last Friday. They may well see
tonight’s game as really crucial in terms of where
they are hoping to finish and that certainly also
applies to us, in the position we find ourselves in.
As we will know what some of the teams around
us have done the previous evening, it will give
both teams added incentive to win for totally
different reasons.
We go into tonight’s game on the back of
another poor result here on Saturday, when
we were well beaten by Coventry City. Coming
on the back of a tremendous comeback and
much-improved performance at West Brom on
Easter Monday, we were looking to back that up
at Loftus Road with a good performance and a
positive result. However, having conceded after
only 10 minutes, we did not work the Coventry
goalkeeper anywhere near enough throughout
and two late breakaway goals emphatically killed
the game and made it another uncomfortable
afternoon for us all. That defeat leaves us
fighting for our lives in terms of survival in the
Championship. Quite simply, the run of only two
wins from 26 league games has left us in a very
precarious position. Such a poor run of results
over such a long period of time is going to hurt
you and put you in trouble. With the season
drawing to an end, we know exactly where we
are, what lies in front of us and exactly what we
have to do.
Results pretty much went our way on Saturday
and while we will take any help we get in terms
of results from other teams, we cannot afford
to rely on them slipping up and losing games.
We HAVE to do our job, we HAVE to make things
happen, we HAVE to get results and points and
we HAVE to do everything we can to stay up in
this division.
With the games running out and only four left,
it goes without saying that the importance of
every result becomes even more vital. I am sure
there will be twists and turns in the remaining
games but we have to control what we can
control, focus on ourselves and achieve a level of
performance individually and collectively to win
games, starting tonight. We need to be up for
the fight and importantly we have to find quality
in all facets of the game all over the pitch to
make the difference in the outcome. Cool heads
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