The Baggies suffered an awful defeat away at Loftus Road on Saturday afternoon as goals from Jonathan Varane and Rumarn Burell’s brace secured the Baggies a 6th consecutive defeat on the road this season, despite Aune Heggebo’s consolation goal.
Another dreadful performance and result away from home, it is our 6th successive defeat on the road since winning at Norwich in October, since then there have been defeats to Millwall, Watford, Ipswich, Charlton, Coventry and now QPR to the list.
I say our away form has to be the worst in the last three seasons and have seen us win three times this year and that was at the start of this season.
In the first half, both teams tried to get the opener with clear cut chances, however near the end of the first half the hosts took the lead through Varane who converted a whipped cross to put Rangers ahead at the break.
The Baggies nearly equalised at the end though with George Campbell’s header forced Paul Nardi into a great stop, with the QPR keeper pushing away our best opportunity.
After the break, there was attempts to get back into the game with Aune Heggebo nodded over and Mikey Johnston’s attempt was well blocked.
Then QPR doubled their advantage with Burrell my player to watch for the oppostion side after a defensive error allowed the striker to score. Then he nearly scored again after that fired wide when giving a huge opportunity whilst George Campbell saw his finished saved and Heggebo poked past the post.
Heggebo then made no mistake with his header to put the game 2-1, giving the Baggies more time to get an equaliser to grab his 6th goal in 5 games.
However, it turned from possible to impossible as Burrell completed his brace to ensure the hosts would beat us and another away day and defeat on the road in London.
QPR 3-1 West Brom
Goalscorers for QPR: Varane, Burrell (X2)
Goalscorers for West Brom: Heggebo
It’s never really a bad day until 3pm on a Saturday until kick off and when the team news comes out I’m like another dreadful Saturday afternoon it is. Joe Wildsmith instead of Josh Griffiths was a mistake made by Ryan Mason and his subs in added time in the second half with seconds to go, why make it late? no need for it when you’re 3-1 down with seconds to go the subs should be made early.
It was another poor watch and our 6th successive defeat away it cannot go on like this can it? In Mick McCarthy’s words it probably can. Lets see what happens and we go again against Southampton away on Tuesday night with a match preview out Monday night.