QPR: Iroegbunam starred vs Preston

Neil Critchley received off to the right begin as QPR supervisor on Saturday as his Hoops facet earned a formidable 1-0 win in opposition to fellow playoff hopefuls Preston North Finish.

QPR travelled to Lancashire with hope relatively than confidence as they sat backside of the shape desk, whereas Ryan Lowe’s facet have been anticipated to be on prime of their recreation after a morale-boosting 4-1 win over Blackburn Rovers final day out.

Forward of the sport, QPR had earned just one point and scored one objective from their final six, however Jimmy Dunne’s second-half objective proved sufficient to beat the Lilywhites and hand Critchley’s facet an important three factors.

Whereas the previous Burnley man stole the headlines after rectifying his mistake from final weekend and scoring the one objective of the sport at Deepdale, it was arguably Tim Iroegbunam who was QPR’s finest performer on Saturday.

As per Sofascore, the on-loan Aston Villa man would earn a formidable 7.5/10 score for his show, with solely Dunne (8.2) rated larger from either side.

Through the 90 minutes, the 19-year-old would run the midfield and seemed extremely harmful in assault, discovering himself extraordinarily unfortunate to not open the scoring within the first half when his very good long-range effort got here again off the publish.

In complete, {the teenager} would register two pictures heading in the right direction and two off beam, having averaged simply 1.6 pictures per recreation within the Championship to date this season, which emphasises how a lot he raised his recreation on Saturday.

He additionally accomplished a formidable three dribbles and three key passes, which once more was a big improve on the 0.7 key passes and 1.1 dribbles he has averaged per recreation within the second tier this marketing campaign.

Forward of his arrival at Loftus Street, former QPR boss Michael Beale described Iroegbunam as “super-impressive” and it appears as if the Hoops are beginning to see the most effective of the Villa wonderkid within the Championship.

The teenager was actually one in every of Critchley’s first heroes on Saturday afternoon and he might be hoping that the loanee can play an enormous half in pushing QPR again up the desk within the second half of the season.