DEFEAT AGAINST WATFORD HURTS
Tuesday 28th November 2007
by Ron Norris

The reserves were beaten by two late Watford goals tonight in a ding dong derby encounter. The game finished 4-3 with both sides exchanging the lead throughout the ninety.

The R's continued to give youth their chance at this level with nine of the starting eleven being plucked from the regular under 18's side.

Chris Goodchild was in goal with Lee Brown, Pat Kanyuka, Josh Ford and Andrew Howell lining up in front of him. Billy Coyne, Matt O'Brien and Chris Arthur made up the midfield with the youth teams triple attack of Angelo Balanta, Romone Rose and Antonio German deployed up front.

Rangers took the lead through Rose after thirteen minutes but Watford hit back a minute later with Anthony McNamee levelling things up.

The Hornets then took the lead from the spot before Balanta's first two goals at this level gave the home side a 3-2 advantage. However Moses Ashikodi and Douglas Rinaldi each scored in the last five minutes to take all three points back to Hertfordshire.

Next week the reserves are on their travels as they face Gary Waddock's Aldershot Town on Tuesday afternoon.

QPR: Goodchild, Coyne, Brown, Ford, Kanyuka, Howell, Balanta, O'Brien, German, Rose, Arthur.