Nice Victory for QPR Youth...Updates re QPR vs Nottingham Forest Reports and Comments

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Northampton Chronicle and Echo - Cobblers youth team beaten by QPR
Northampton Town's youth team lost 2-1 to QPR in the Football League Youth Alliance [on Saturday, October 18]
Cobblers lead at half-time through a Wes Emery goal but Rangers turned things round in the second half and went on to win with a late winner.
"I was absolutely delighted with the lads performance and I was just gutted for them that we didn't take something from the game," said youth team coach Sean Parrish.
"We were 1-0 up at the break but QPR started the second half strongly and got it back to 1-1.
"After that though we had some good chances ourselves to get a second but unfortunately we didn't take any of our chances and they scored a late goal." Northampton Chronicle


Telegraph/Huw Turbervill
Queens Park Rangers victory buys time for manager Iain Dowie
Safe for now: Iain Dowie will feel slightly more secure in his role thanks to his side's weekend victory Photo: GETTY IMAGES

Attacking on the field, defensive off it. Queens Park Rangers' coaching and playing staff seem to have developed a mindset to cope with the continual speculation about a change in manager.
Terry Venables is the latest name to be bandied about, but at least this win, their first in five league games, has bought breathing space for Iain Dowie.
"I don't think we have to think about the press; it's a long season, and good teams always bounce back, we just need to look forward," said Akos Buzsaky, QPR's Hungarian midfielder, who scored their second. "It's important we start playing again as we did at the start of the season. Iain Dowie is doing a great job.
"I think we have made a step forward from last season, but other teams are now prepared us. Last season we were bottom of the league, and other teams didn't think we were very good, now they know we are one of the division's best sides.
"In the last few games, apart from Birmingham, teams have defended against us for 80-85 minutes. Most teams have one good striker, and scored through one good strike. That happens." Nottingham Forest shaded the first half, but conceded two minutes after the break; Wes Morgan inadvertently flicked on Damien Delaney's throw and Angelo Balanta volleyed in from close range. Buzsaky then scored with a lovely, low strike, confirming he is nearly back to his best after an ankle injury. Substitute Lewis McGugan pulled one back, however, with a superb free-kick. Telegraph


OBSERVER - QPR 2 Nottingham Forest 1
QPR's 2-1 win over the bottom team Nottingham Forest, their first in five matches, again highlighted the long-throw expertise of Fitz Hall. Both their goals, from 18-year-old Angelo Balanta and Akos Buzsaky, stemmed from this aspect of Hall's game. Forest's run without a win was increased to nine matches and this was their fourth successive defeat. The frustration among Forest fans was evident, especially in their reaction to manager Colin Calderwood's decision to substitute Paul Anderson. On his Forest debut, the exciting 20-year-old winger who has been hampered by injury since being signed on loan from Liverpool in the summer, was their best player.
Forest, clearly not helped recently by the injury to striker Robert Earnshaw, are among the Championship's lowest-scoring teams. .... Observer


Nottingham Evening Post - Forest boss Calderwood defiant
Nottingham Forest manager Colin Calderwood remained defiant after his side lost 2-1 at QPR.
Angelo Balanta and Akos Buzsaky scored to give Rangers a much-needed victory and leave Forest without a win in nine games.
Forest are still bottom of the Coca-Cola Championship and frustration is growing among their supporters – some of whom barracked Calderwood after his 76th-minute substitution of Paul Anderson, who had been the visitors' best player.
But Calderwood insisted: "We will get through this stage and will be better for it. We'll end up stronger.
"We've got good players and they are better than their position in the league suggests.
"We want to be successful. We don't want to be bottom of the league but learning periods aren't always successful.
"But we've got to arrest this quickly. We can't be blase about it and say we're doing well, because we're not." Report


Sunday Mercury Nottingham Forest boss remains defiant
- UNDER-pressure Nottingham Forest manager Colin Calderwood remained defiant after his struggling side lost 2-1 at QPR.
- Angelo Balanta and Akos Buzsaky scored to give Rangers a much-needed victory and leave Forest without a win in nine games.
- Forest are still bottom of the Coca-Cola Championship and frustration is growing among their supporters - some of whom barracked Calderwood after his 76th-minute substitution of Paul Anderson, who had been the visitors' best player.

But Calderwood insisted: "We will get through this stage and will be better for it. We'll end up stronger.

"We've got good players and they are better than their position in the league suggests at the moment.
- "I'll drive forward. We want to be successful. We don't want to be bottom of the league but learning periods aren't always successful.
- "But we've got to arrest this quickly. We can't be blase about it and say we're doing well, because we're not."
- Forest went behind three minutes after half-time, when Fitz Hall's long throw was headed on by Damien Delaney and Balanta's close-range shot went in off the underside of the bar.
- Another throw from Hall again proved to be Forest's undoing on the hour mark. This time his delivery from the right was cleared only as far as Buzsaky, who fired home with a left-footed volley from just outside the penalty area.
- Lewis McGugan pulled a goal back with a brilliant 30-yard free-kick, meaning QPR had to endure a nervy final seven minutes before securing their first win in five League matches.
- Calderwood admitted: "In the end it was a fair result because we didn't defend well from two throw-ins, and that gave QPR a start in the game.
- "When you're without a win and bottom of the table, that's a lift you cannot afford to give the opposition.
- "We've been unluckily defeated a few times this season, but this wasn't one of them."
- The result eased the pressure on QPR boss Iain Dowie, whose assistant Tim Flowers bemoaned the attitude of the home fans.
- Flowers said: "When quality players here miss passes by the smallest distance, there's anxiety all round the place.
- "I can't understand that anxiety. We're sixth in the table and in the last 16 of the Carling Cup, which I believe is this club's best run in the competition for a long time."
- He added: "It wasn't a good time to concede a goal - seven or eight minutes from the end - but sometimes you have to hold your hands up and say 'that was a great strike'. McGugan's free-kick was fantastic technique and no-one's going to save that.
- "It was important after the run of games we've had that we got our noses in front, which we did. Their goal rocked us back a bit but it was a good result and a good three points.
- "The first goal was vital and, fortunately, we got it today.
- "We then hunted the ball better in the second half and we've got pace at the back, so there was no need to worry and sit deep. It was about being brave." Mercury

- See Also: Earlier QPR-Nottingham Forest Post Match Comments --- Earlier Match Reports