MICK Beale was thrilled for QPR’s supporters who braved disruption throughout the rail community this weekend to witness an unimaginable first for the membership.
Seny Dieng grew to become the first-ever goalkeeper to attain for Rangers when he headed residence a dramatic equaliser within the 92nd minute, as Rangers drew 2-2 at Sunderland.
Two-nil down with solely three minutes remaining, Ilias Chair and Dieng weighed in with late, late objectives to earn the Tremendous Hoops a sensational level.
“What a magic second for Seny,” Mick instructed www.qpr.co.uk. “I’ve simply been instructed he’s the first-ever goalkeeper to attain for QPR.
“However I additionally wish to say thanks to the 904 followers who made the journey regardless of the rail strikes. They get to say that they had been right here when that second occurred.
“Seny is a giant participant for us, and it turned out to be at each ends in the present day.
“Somebody stated to me, ‘Are you alright with Seny going up?’ It was a bit late by then as he was already 80 yards up the pitch!
“You’ve seen Alisson do it for Liverpool, and it was an amazing end. We by no means had that ultimate cross or shot within the ultimate third in the present day – however then our goalkeeper comes up and reveals everybody the way it’s achieved.
“He’ll be speaking about that one for some time.”
Detailing Chair’s 87th-minute free-kick effort which gave the R’s a lifeline, Beale added: “That’s why we saved him on.
“You all the time have that little bit of hope with somebody like Ilias. It was an amazing free-kick.
“Then we had the massive likelihood with Sinclair [Armstrong] breaking away down the left-hand facet. Maybe he ought to have squared it, however their ‘keeper made an amazing save.
“We had been pondering, ‘That’s the second we’ve been ready for’ – however fortunately Seny got here up along with his personal.”
Because the clock ticked down, Rangers appeared like they had been heading for his or her second Championship defeat of the brand new marketing campaign.
“We confirmed nice character within the second half,” Mick continued. “All recreation, we created possibilities, however we lacked high quality within the ultimate third.
“We received in some actually good areas however had been wasteful.
“Their entrance two (Ellis Simms and Ross Stewart) clearly prompted us some issues within the first half, we dropped too deep. They’re a handful and they’re going to trigger groups issues this season– Sunderland are fairly direct going into them.
“However we should not have been two-nil down. We had been within the recreation effectively sufficient however defended the objectives poorly.”
Owing to damage, the R’s had been with out numerous key gamers for the lengthy journey to the North East.
Nevertheless, Beale had higher information forward of two residence video games subsequent week – and likewise shared particulars of an imminent mortgage arrival.
Talking forward of Blackpool’s go to to Loftus Highway on Tuesday, he stated: “Kenneth Paal must be out there, Chris Willock too for some minutes – we may also have a mortgage signing out there.
“That’ll assist us subsequent week, and we’d have another injured participant out there by the weekend.
“Those who gained’t be out there for the foreseeable future are Jake Clarke-Salter, Luke Amos and Taylor Richards. They gained’t be out there till nearer the worldwide break in September, maybe after.
“That’s clearly disappointing, however we will go into the 2 residence video games with confidence now.
“I consider that when now we have everybody out there, we’ve an thrilling younger crew.”
Seny is a giant participant for us, and it turned out to be at each ends in the present day.
