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Right response - QPR_boss Dowie

August 27 - September 2, 2008
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After Gulf Air-sponsored QPR's impressive 2-0 win on Saturday over Doncaster Rovers, manager Iain Dowie conceded that there was still work to do.

Ever the perfectionist, the coach did allow himself to be pleased after a performance that went some way towards repairing the damage done by a 3-0 thrashing at Sheffield United seven days earlier.

He said: "We felt we had to change it a little bit after the United game. Not just formation and personnel but things like being first to the ball every time and I think we did that today.

"The second half of the United game, I thought we were OK but we needed a response and we got one this weekend with a clean sheet.

"After the break today we stopped doing what got us the goals in the first half, and it turned into a bit of a war of attrition. We didn't get it out wide to Lee Cook and Emmanuel Ledesma as much, and that little bit of quality was missing."

After another dazzling performance from the two midfield dynamos, thoughts quickly turned to Daniel Parejo and Ledesma. On the pair, the manager said: "With both of them, they need to settle. It's a new country, new club, new teammates, me shouting at them! They need time to develop."

He added on the Spaniard: "He's got everything in his locker: enormous talent. But he's learning the physical side and that can only be a good thing."

On goalscorer Ledesma, Dowie had similar praise, saying: "He's another wonderful player, wonderful to watch, but he also does the simple things well.

"The lads like him and he's a bit of a character, but he can also make the ball sing sometimes."

With these two seemingly enjoying English football, it remains to be seen what Rangers can achieve after getting back to winning ways.

how they lined-up

QPR: Cerny, Delaney, Stewart, Mahon, Hall, Leigertwood, Parejo, Blacksstock, Ramage, Cook, Ledesma.

Subs: Camp, Rowlands, Connolly, Balanta, Di Carmine.

DONCASTER: Sullivan, O'Connor, Roberts, Mills, Guy, Stock, Taylor, Hayter, Wellens, Hird, Coppinger.

Subs: Van Nieuwstadt, Chambers, Woods, Spicer, Elliot.

QPR face a tough test of their promotion potential on Saturday with an away fixture at last season's losing play-off contenders Bristol City - a side anxious to make up for the agony of missing a return to the top flight of English football.







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