Ryan's Blues Musings

Starting XI Three changes. Marc Roberts, George Hall and Juninho Bacuna are back in. Jordan Graham and Hannibal Mejbri drop to the bench. Harlee Dean misses out with injury. Blues revert to four at the back. Game The opening to this game was turnover central, neither side capable of finding a team-mate until Kristian Bielik did, playing a superb pass into Reda Khadra. He sized up Rob Dickie, played in Bacuna on the overlap and his cut back found Tahith Chong at the back post to score. QPR had a spell on top after Khadra blazed over but all they had to show for their efforts was Lyndon Dykes firing over an Albert Adomah cut back. Blues settled back into proceedings with Chong finding Hall, whose effort was blocked then Seny Dieng won a trio of duels with Lukas Jutkiewicz, first denying a header, then producing an excellent double stop before making a save at the near post after the big man controlled and turned from a throw-in. Dykes half volleyed over a free-kick that wasn't cleare...

Starting XI Two changes. Hannibal Mejbri and Jordan Graham for Alfie Chang and George Hall. Both drop to the bench. Game A game of two halves but the hosts had the first and punished our negligence. It took six minutes for Watford to kill us, some tidy play leading to Sema being found out wide alone. His low, driven cross found an unmarked Imran Louza to finish. And ten minutes later, they had a second, Bielik's misplaced header in the centre leading to a transition from which Louza found Davis. He squared up to Long 1 v 1 before rifling into the roof of the net from a tight angle. Ngakia was later giving all the time he wanted to fire off the post from 25 yards. Pedro and Davis linked up to find Kone, who was close from 20 yards and Cathcart headed wide a corner. Blues offered nothing all half. A double change at half time breathed life into Blues. Within a minute of half time, Pedro had a tame effort saved and Hogan wasted a glorious opportunity after being slipped in by Bielik...