West Ham - 2
Harewood (36 pen, 84)
QPR - 1
Mcleod (72)
Att: 31,365
West Ham avenged their defeat at the Loft last month with a 2-1 win over the Ranger today with 2 goals from Marlon Harewood. After West Ham's 4-1 hammering by Cardiff midweek, they were a bit of a wounded animal really and certainly made life hard for Rangers.
QPR forwards Cureton and Thorpe started. Thorpe up front next to Furlong, Cureton down the right to replace the suspended Bignot and injured Rowlands. Ainsworth was on the bench and soon got a run. Thorpe was kicked out of the game by the highly unimpressive Repka after about half an hour or so.
Danny Shittu gave away a hotly disputed penalty on his return to the side, for a foul on Luke Chadwick in the 36th minute. Harewood beat Day easy enough and QPR were playing catch-up.
Catch-up we did in the 72nd minute with Mcleod stealing in at the back post after coming on as a straight swap for Cook. Up until that point QPR stayed in the game with a shout, despite not playing very well.
Brick-house, out-house, shit-house Harewood got them the points in the 84th minute after a shoddy clearance from a left hand cross. I don't want to talk about it.
West Ham Team Bywater, Mullins, Repka, Davenport, Powell, Hutchison , Fletcher, Lomas, Etherington, Harewood, Chadwick
West Ham Subs Walker, Brevett, Ferdinand, Rebrov, Zamore.
Booked: Repka, Hutchison, Powell.
QPR Team Day, Shittu, Rose, Santos, Bircham, Thorpe-(Ainsworth 29), Cureton, Cook, Simek, Gallen, Furlong.
QPR Subs Padula, Bean, Branco, Mcleod, Ainsworth,
Booked: Simek.
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Posted at 5:37 PM, Saturday, November 06, 2004