QPR 0 Stoke 0 – 15/12/20 5.30pm
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Despite 60% possession, Stoke didn’t get near to breaking QPR down in this unmemorable draw. Another clean sheet away from home for war-torn City, but they will regret not punishing the weaker Rangers. Here’s how the game unfolded in real time:
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Things are soo bad injury-wise that the crowd-favourite (?) Tom Ince starts for Fletch (rested on bench), and it’s his first start this season. Blimey, Liam Lindsay will be playing next! (Liam’s on the bench with Thommo, Batth & Shawcross.)
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9.06 Tom Ince with his two crosses is the best player on the pitch! Most unexpected sentence today.
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11.50 Dykes ends up in the goal, but not the ball! Somehow! Put off by diving Bursik and Collins. Enough to scare anyone. But Dykes missed a sitter.
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18.30 Obligatory Tom Ince free kick over the bar.
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40.40 Ex-Stoke’s Geoff Cameron behaving like an idiot, grabbing Powell by the neck! Somehow he stays on the pitch.
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HT QPR 0 Stoke 0
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47.20 Stoke get the best team-talk, and immediately start charging up the pitch, with Souttar setting up Powell, but keeper Timothy defects Nick’s shot on to a defender then off the post and away!!! Grief!
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54.45 Cameron pushes Powell right in front of the ref and still doesn’t get a card! Shocking behaviour. He used to use his skill. 2 years in London has done this to him.
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65.30 Fletcher on for Brown, so maybe all these crosses raining in may find a head.
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69.05 Bursik saves at the near post after his outfielders continue to give the ball away.
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70.42 Best chance of he day for Stoke as Fox’s cross is headed over by Powell.
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78.30 QPR going for penalties but the ref is unimpressed. Fair tackle by Cousins, and Bursik’s was a “coming together”. Thompson on for Tymon, who’s been invisible.
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81.30 Verlinden returns from injury and on for McClean, and Oakley-Boothe on for Powell.
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85.50 Dreadful tackle by Souttar gains him a yellow, the first for Stoke (QPR have 2).
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90+5 The ref blows before Rangers wake up.
FT QPR 0 Stoke 0
FT QPR 0 Stoke 0
