'I didn't do enough' - Cifuentes accepts blame for QPR loss in striking Sheffield Wednesday admission

Marti Cifuentes took the blame for his side's performance against Sheffield Wednesday.Marti Cifuentes took the blame for his side's performance against Sheffield Wednesday.
Marti Cifuentes took the blame for his side's performance against Sheffield Wednesday. | Getty Images
QPR struggled to get going against a motivated Sheffield Wednesday side on Saturday afternoon.

QPR head coach Marti Cifuentes was self-critical as he reacted to his side's defeat to fellow Championship strugglers Sheffield Wednesday at Loftus Road on Saturday afternoon.

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The Catalonian gave a striking admission that he might have not prepared his side well enough for the meeting with an intense Owls side as they suffered a 2-0 defeat in front of home support.

Cifuentes said: "I'm very disappointed, especially with myself as well. I didn't prepare my team well enough for the kind of game I knew it would be. We were not good at all. I was very disappointed about the result and the game. A very disappointing game."

QPR were on a bounce after two wins over the weekend had hoisted the club up the second division and away from the relegation zone. Cifuentes was asked whether a degree of complacency might have crept into his side.

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He said: "That's always a danger, not always in football but in a human being Sometimes we tend to relax and those moments are very dangerous.

"You think you are doing so well and suddenly football gives you the reality that if you are not at 110%, it's very difficult.

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Marti Cifuentes took the blame for his side's performance against Sheffield Wednesday.Marti Cifuentes took the blame for his side's performance against Sheffield Wednesday.
Marti Cifuentes took the blame for his side's performance against Sheffield Wednesday. | Getty Images

"We tried during the whole week to understand it was a very difficult game, probably the most difficult of the season. It looked like Sheffield were playing for their lives. Unfortunately, I was not good enough to commit my players that today needed this kind of intensity.

"The quality of the game was poor, I want my squad to put the ball on the ground and try to play but Sheffield plays in a very aggressive way with counter-pressing and trying to destroy the game of the opponent. We didn't understand what was required and that's disappointing. Perhaps today I didn't prepare the team well enough to understand this is required."

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