A Year Ago: QPR's Home Defeat to Preston

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If it's six months to the day that Ugo Ukah's QPR departure was announced, it's exactly a year since QPR lost 0-2 at home to Preston - their fourth loss in a row. QPR's Team that night: Rangers: Royce, Bignot, Shittu, Evatt, Dyer, Ainsworth, Langley, Rowlands, Cook, Baidoo, Gallen. Subs: Cole, Milanese, Santos, Bean, Moore

Nov 22, 2005 QPR OFFICIAL SITE - SHABAZZ STARTS
Ian Holloway names an attacking side for tonight's game against Preston, including young Shabazz Baidoo.
The 17 year old steps into the starting line up after impressing down at Plymouth on Saturday when he scored after being on the pitch for just four minutes.
There is no place in the line-up for Marc Nygaard who suffered a set back in training yesterday.
But one man who makes the cut is Martin Rowlands, who starts his first game since August 13 after a lengthy spell on the sidelines due to injury.
Elsewhere the back line is as you were, mimicking that of the last seven games.
Rangers: Royce, Bignot, Shittu, Evatt, Dyer, Ainsworth, Langley, Rowlands, Cook, Baidoo, Gallen
Subs: Cole, Milanese, Santos, Bean, Moore
Preston: Nash, Alexander, Davidson, Davis, Sedgwick, O'Neil, Agyemang, McKenna, Hill, Lucketti, Nowland
Subs: Ward, Mawene, Jones, Nugent, Dichio
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Match Report - Sporting Life
David Nugent and Callum Davidson scored the goals that condemned QPR to a fourth straight defeat - and extended Preston's unbeaten run to nine matches.
Nugent was not expected to play due to a knee injury, but seconds after replacing Adam Nowland in the 58th minute, the England Under-21 striker used his first touch to break a scoring duck that had lasted since August.
And five minutes from time, Davidson took advantage of a dreadful error by Marcus Bignot to stroke home a second goal.
These are worrying times for QPR, who created the better chances before the break but faded badly after it - and were booed off by the majority of an unusually low crowd of 10,901 at Loftus Road.
Even so, the match had begun brightly for Rangers, with left-winger Lee Cook looking lively. He finished an adroit dribble with a right-footed shot from 20 yards that Carlo Nash saved well in the third minute.
Seven minutes later, Cook was involved again. After Chris Lucketti's attempted clearance had fallen to him 15 yards out, the former Watford player fired a shot that deflected off team-mate Shabazz Baidoo but was held on his line by Nash.
Young striker Baidoo - making his first start of the season after scoring his first goal for the club in the 3-1 defeat at Plymouth on Saturday - thought he had put his team in front in the 15th minute.
But referee Dermot Gallagher ruled Baidoo had used his shoulder to turn Kevin Gallen's cross into the net, and the goal was disallowed.
Baidoo looked confident against the Preston back-line, and tested Nash again on the half-hour, forcing the North End keeper to push his close-range effort around the post following an intelligent through-ball by Cook.
Neither side looked like making headway early in the second half, and it was no surprise that a mistake led to Preston's opener.
Lloyd Dyer - who looked shaky all night - failed to deal with Graham Alexander's ball down the right, allowing Patrick Agyemang to turn the ball across for Nugent to fire impressively into the roof of the net from eight yards.
Nugent posed plenty of problems for the Rangers defence, and went close twice shortly after his goal. First he was beaten to the ball by Simon Royce following more poor Rangers defending, and seconds later the QPR goalkeeper claimed Nugent's snap shot from 15 yards at the second attempt.
After their goal, Preston rarely looked troubled as the central midfield pairing of Paul McKenna and Brian O'Neil held sway - and they made sure of the points in the 85th minute.
Davidson robbed Bignot on the edge of the Rangers area, and produced a confident finish from 18 yards that gave Royce no chance.
Teams
QPR Royce, Bignot, Evatt, Shittu, Dyer, Ainsworth (Bean 77), Rowlands, Langley, Cook (Moore 69), Gallen, Baidoo (Santos 76).
Subs Not Used: Cole, Milanese.
Booked: Dyer.
Preston Nash, Alexander, Davis, Lucketti, Hill, Sedgwick, O'Neil (Mawene 84), McKenna, Davidson, Agyemang (Dichio 79), Nowland (Nugent 58).
Subs Not Used: Ward, Jones.
Booked: Hill.
Sporting Life

Ian Holloway's post-match comments can be heard at: Holloway-post-Preston