3 things we clearly learnt about QPR after their 2-1 loss v Preston

Queens Park Rangers suffered yet another setback in their quest to finish in the Championship top six as they lost out 2-1 to Preston North End yesterday, with both sides having opportunities to score more.

The visitors had a couple of chances early doors – but it was the hosts that opened the scoring with Jimmy Dune accidentally putting the ball in his own net following a wicked cross from the left-hand side.

And things would get worse for the R’s after the interval, with Cameron Archer taking advantage of some hesitant defending as he fired the ball into the back of the net in the 50th minute, a goal that looked set to be the knockout blow for the visitors.

QPR did score in stoppage time with Andre Gray converting a penalty, but it was too little, too late for Mark Warburton’s men who would have been expecting to win three points considering the Lilywhites haven’t got anything to play for between now and the end of the season.

However, the latter came out on top and this leaves the R’s in tenth place and six points adrift of the top six with just five league games left to play, with a play-off finish now looking unlikely.

Looking back at this game though, we discuss three things we learnt about them following yesterday afternoon’s tie.

They need to be more clinical

The visitors at Deepdale had two chances early on to take the lead, with Andre Dozzell having the first as a lucky break allowed him to create a one-on-one opportunity for himself, one he squandered as he fired straight at Daniel Iversen.

Ilias Chair then had a chance to capitalise on a mistake just over 15 minutes later, doing all the hard work as he took the ball around Preston’s defenders but saw his shot go narrowly wide of the post, something he will be