Mark Warburton called on his Queens Park Rangers team to be more ruthless as they missed out on moving up to fourth in the table after conceding an added-time equaliser against Nottingham Forest.
Jack Colback’s strike, which took a deflection off Jimmy Dunne on its way into the net, cancelled out a first-half effort from Lyndon Dykes, leading Warburton to say that his side needed to show a meaner streak in front of goal.
“We get the goal before half-time, and then we had a lot of chances to kill the game off,” the QPR manager said.
“Their equaliser was a speculative shot with a wicked deflection that we could do nothing about — it’s a dressing room that is hurting, because it would have been three good points. We had three or four chances to kill the game off and we needed to be ruthless.”
However, Forest could claim justifiably that they deserved a point, having acquitted themselves well throughout the game. They almost made the perfect start after only 13 seconds when Brennan Johnson fired narrowly wide after being fed by Joe Lolley.
QPR lost Sam McCallum to a hamstring injury and Jordy de Wijs to a calf problem in the space of eight minutes. So it was perhaps a surprise when Dykes gave the home side the lead in first-half added time, when he headed in from an Albert Adomah cross.
The west Londoners looked better in the second half and Dykes was denied a second goal by the Forest goalkeeper, Brice Samba.
The final word, however, went to Forest and Colback, who controlled the ball and fired home in the first minute of added time, sending nearly 3,000 away fans into raptures.
