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Daily Mail/Chris Wheeler - Sun, sea and serious hard work for QPR flops after Hughes reads riot act
QPR leave for a four-day break in Portugal on Tuesday but it will be no holiday after Mark Hughes administered the first dressing-down of his reign at Loftus Road.
-Hughes admitted he was ‘astounded’ by his team’s first-half performance at Blackburn as they went three goals behind. Although Rangers recovered with two late strikes from substitute Jamie Mackie, it was not enough to save Hughes from a third defeat in five Premier League games in charge.
- Mackie’s second goal kept QPR above Blackburn and out of the bottom three on goal difference, and they now have a two-week break before facing their manager’s old club Fulham at home a week on Saturday.
Hughes will use it to give the Loftus Road pitch a rest and his players a change of scenery that he hopes will lead to a change of fortunes after making his feelings clear to them at Ewood Park on Saturday.
‘I’m still astounded by the first half, to be honest,’ he said. ‘We won’t labour the point because they were told in no uncertain terms about that.
‘It’s probably the first time they’ve seen that side of me but they’ll see it again if we have the same problem. We understood straightaway that that wasn’t acceptable and I don’t anticipate that we’ll see that level of performance again.
‘We’re going to Portugal to get some work done because we’re struggling at our training ground at the moment. It’s frozen so we’ve been training at the stadium and we need to give that a break.’
However, Hughes admits the trip will also give him a chance to assess the mentality of his new charges and rebuild their fragile confidence after their first-half performance at Blackburn.
He added: ‘It will give us the opportunity to have a couple of sessions a day and have a real understanding of what type of personalities they are and how they react to certain situations.
‘I’ve learned a lot about the group, both in the performance in the first half and in the second half as well. We conceded two goals from two shots and they were really poor from our point of view.
‘Given the circumstances we’re in, the confidence ebbed away somewhat and we can’t afford to have that. We’re in a position where, even if things go against us, we’ve still got to dig in and do the right things. In the first half we felt too sorry for ourselves.’ Daily Mail
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