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Telegraph - Scott Sinclair loan pays off for himself and QPR
By Huw Turbervill
A few fans might raise eyebrows when Scott Sinclair says he hopes to use his spell at Queens Park Rangers to prepare for Chelsea's next Carling Cup clash. They would be wiser to embrace the bright winger with open arms, however, and relish the impact he will make.
The 18-year-old impressed on loan at Plymouth last season, and his neat headed goal in only his second game for QPR capped a bright display. "QPR are a great club and I've come here to get games and score goals," Sinclair said. "I'm here for a month and then, hopefully, I'll go back to Chelsea and break into the first team.
"I spoke to Avram Grant and he said if I'm going to play against Liverpool [in the quarter-final on Dec 18] the best thing is to go and get games." It benefits Chelsea that QPR are playing attractively under Luigi De Canio. "He's trying to make the boys play football on the floor," said Sinclair, who gave his side the lead just before half-time when he glanced in Akos Buzsaky's cross.
One man who has no intention of leaving is Clinton Morrison, and his 100th goal for Palace salvaged a point two minutes from time. Six games under Neil Warnock have brought fours draws and two defeats, and it was only a second start for Morrison under him.
He said: "It's been frustrating. I might seem a loud person but over the last few weeks I haven't been as confident as I can be, so this will help.
"I didn't think our equaliser was coming. I didn't think we deserved it. We didn't get in their faces and at half-time the manager let us know about it. He was ranting and raving and breathing very heavily."
Warnock acknowledges he has considerable work to do, for it was De Canio's QPR who appear better equipped to climb clear of danger. Telegraph
The Guardian Canny De Canio plots a loan path away from dangerMike Adamson
The key to dragging a club out of the relegation zone is often found in the manager's success at dabbling in the transfer market. This draw left both clubs in the bottom three but Luigi De Canio, to judge from his first two weeks in charge of QPR, should guide his team out of the red soon. Crystal Palace's manager Neil Warnock, however, has plenty of bargaining to do.
De Canio, renowned as a survival specialist in his native Italy, has made two loan signings since arriving at Loftus Road a fortnight ago, and both were instrumental in a pleasing performance that would have resulted in three points had it not been for the outstanding goalkeeping of Palace's Julian Speroni. He was beaten only once, when Chelsea's Scott Sinclair headed a cross from Plymouth Argyle's Akos Buzsaky into the far corner. The 18-year-old left-winger Sinclair is with QPR for only a month before heading back to Stamford Bridge, where he has been told by the Chelsea manager, Avram Grant, he will play in the Carling Cup quarter-final with Liverpool on December 18.
Buzsaky, the Hungarian playmaker expected to make his move permanent in January, crafted three more golden chances for his team-mates but on each occasion Speroni denied them. "I was at Plymouth for three months last season and he was there," Sinclair said of Buzsaky. "He's a very good player. It's nice having a few players here that I knew already."
They include two more Chelsea loanees, the talented right-back Michael Mancienne and the Israeli forward Ben Sahar. Warnock has profited less from his borrowing; his first acquisition as Palace manager, Franck Songo'o from Portsmouth, was substituted at half-time.
His squad riddled with injuries, Warnock has given first-team debuts to four teenagers in his six winless matches, Ryan Hall blooded for the first time here and the 15-year-old midfielder John Bostock making his fourth appearance. However, it was one of the team's veterans, Clinton Morrison, who salvaged a draw with a late header. "Palace have one of the best youth set-ups around," said Morrison. "But the gaffer will change it and bring in better players to help get us up the division."
Warnock concurs. "We need some points to climb the table short-term and I think it's conceivable we can do that. Whether it's with the group of players I've got I'm not sure." It is almost inconceivable that QPR, however, will not climb the table after De Canio's smart signings.
Man of the match Julian Speroni (Crystal Palace) Guardian
Daily Mail
"...QPR showed all the signs of an Italian renaissance under new manager Luigi De Canio, but for all their dominance they are back in the bottom three along with Palace.
However, in loan signings Akos Buzsaky from Plymouth and Scott Sinclair from Chelsea, De Canio seems to have brought in the necessary quality to steer his side away from the relegation zone. They combined to allow Sinclair to put QPR ahead just before half-time" Mail.
The Sun/DAve Ward
CLINTON MORRISON scored his 100th Palace goal — then told his team-mates to be more ruthless.
Morrison rose highest to head home Mark Kennedy’s free-kick with two minutes to go.
That came after on-loan Scott Sinclair had shown why Chelsea rate him so highly by netting for the visitors in the first half.
The point leaves both sides stuck in the drop zone but Morrison insists Neil Warnock’s team, who are yet to win after six games under the former Sheffield United boss, will move up the table if they follow his lead.
The Irish international also admitted that after spending three months stuck on 99 he was just delighted to reach his century — although Warnock would not let him celebrate as he wanted. Morrison has been wearing a special ‘100 not-out’ T-shirt in readiness for celebrating the goal that finally came against luckless Rangers.
The hitman said: “I’ve been wearing that for ages but the gaffer wouldn’t let me wear it as he didn’t want me to get booked for taking my shirt off.
“I pick up enough silly bookings as it is and he didn’t want another one.”
Morrison continued: “Today’s a good result but we are lacking confidence.
“The strikers could take the blame but I don’t think we create many chances for the forwards. We have to start creating more and putting the chances away. That’s why teams like Watford have strikers near the top of the scoring charts as they’re ruthless.
“We’ve got to do that and be ruthless as well.”
Luigi De Canio’s QPR will be kicking themselves after not being ruthless when it mattered.
Sinclair was superb and took his goal brilliantly, flicking a header home on the stroke of half-time after great work from Akos Buzsaky.
But he, Adam Bolder and Rowan Vine were all denied by keeper Julian Speroni when one-on-one in the second half. And those misses proved costly when Morrison took his only opportunity of the game. Sun
Also:- Independent Match Report .
SEE ALSO: Earlier Reports and comments re QPR's Draw at Palace
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