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

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.

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.

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.

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"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.

"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."