Rangers were made to battle all the way by a Wrexham team that had surpassed their expectations for the afternoon with barely sixty seconds played. For the umpteenth time this season the Rangers faithful had to endure a team that had little or no attacking inclination play for a point from first whistle to last. The only change from recent weeks was that they didn't get one.

Holloway chose to stick with the same starting eleven that had played so well for eighty minutes at Northampton. The only problem with this was that they started the game like the team that had capitulated in the final ten. Wrexham hit the front with just over a minute gone with what turned out to be their only shot of the entire game.

Livewire winger Hector Sam cut in from the right wing and hurled himself over the nearest defender. It looked like a soft freekick but fair play to Wrexham they made the most of it. Everybody in the Upper Loft could see where the freekick was going. The wall was a joke, you could have driven a bus through the gap in the middle. Stephen Thomas stepped up a curled the ball over the wall and into the net.

When you see direct freekicks go in you don't tend to mind if the bloke smashes it into the top corner or curls one just inside the post, but this one was almost central. Digby got a hand to it but couldn't get any purchase on the ball. To me it seemed he had no spring in his jump and I wonder whether he had taken a step the wrong way as it was struck.

Almost as soon as the ball was in the Wrexham tactics changed. After staring with such attacking purpose they immediately switched to ten at the back and tried to hold their lead for the next eighty-nine minutes. To give them there due, they managed it for a good proportion of the match but the sheer weight of pressure they were coming under would get the better of them.

For the rest of the half, Rangers never really managed to create a clear-cut chance. Both Matthew Rose and Leroy Griffiths blasted over; indeed one of Leroy's efforts may be the winner of worst shot of the season! Kevin Gallen came closest to opening the scoring with a Beckhamesque freekick that Rovde did well to turn away. The Wrexham stopper was called on to make several other routine saves in the half to deny Connolly amongst others but as half time came the usual jeers erupted from the home fans.

There has been much talk recently of the Rangers players not liking playing at Loftus Road due to criticism. What a load of bollocks! If they don't like being criticised then play better, seems simple enough to me. We as fans are all too aware that players don't like being jeered from the field and the Rangers fans can be a fickle bunch but some of the performance levels at home recently have been well below par. Everybody yesterday could see us dropping yet more points against a lowly side and that was reflected in our reaction. Luckily this week the players decided to play for the requisite ninety minutes instead of a number of their own choosing.

The second half began with purpose and Karl Connolly could have had two against his former employers in quick time. Firstly, he powered a header over the bar from twelve yards. Minutes later he controlled a tricky through ball and brought a fine save from Rovde with a left-footed effort. Pressure was starting to build and you could sense that a breakthrough might be on its way.

The goal that got us back into the game was simply stunning. Doudou and Richard Pacquette had just been brought on for the inconsistent Griffiths and the unlucky Forbes. Doudou set off on a typically mazy run and was felled twenty-five yards out. This time Richard Langley stepped up a curled a delicate freekick over the wall and into the corner. It seems Langley has been working hard on his shooting during his enforced absence. We have all seen him have the old rush of blood in front of goal and leather shots to all corners of the ground but this was different. This was sheer class.

What could be the most telling point of our season happened just before the eighty minute mark. Karl Connolly went in for a challenge and seemed to wave his leg at the ball rather than play it. Dennis Lawrence hit him with a bone shuddering challenge winning the ball and flattening Connolly in the same process. Bonnot replaced the stricken striker and we have since learned that he will miss the rest of the campaign. This is a blow as he had just hit a patch of form and he was looking dangerous.

Undeterred, Rangers kept hammering away at the Wrexham rearguard and with one minute left to play, they were rewarded with a deserved winner. Doudou again was the instigator and he chased a lost cause down the left and managed to keep the ball in play. His wicked cross was nodded back across Rovde by Kevin Gallen to send the home fans wild. No goal is more enjoyable than a Gallen goal in front of The Loft.

The four minutes of injury time passed without much further incident. The defence decided not to give any ridiculous goals away and after five games without a win the three points were ours. Again we sit three points off the play offs but it is still a big ask and it has been made bigger with the Connolly news. All we can do is keep plugging away and if we deserve to get in the play offs we will.