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QPR angered by West Brom’s Cedric Kipre going unpunished as official misses blatant handball

QPR have been left angered by West Brom’s Cedric Kipre going unpunished as an official misses a blatant handball on Wednesday night.

Queen’s Park Rangers head coach Marti Cifuentes playfully mentioned that he planned to have his team practice against ‘two goalkeepers’ after Sam Field was denied by Cedric Kipre who used his hand to prevent the ball from going into the back of the net.

The referee, Geoff Eltringham, failed to notice it, which came shortly after Alex Palmer saved a penalty from Michael Frey.

Additionally, a goal from Ilias Chair in the 69th minute was disallowed due to a foul by Kipre in the build-up.

Despite the unfortunate events, the Spanish manager were frustrated, but also expressed the importance of ensuring his team does not fall prey to such ‘fine margins’.

The result means that QPR are 19th in the Championship with 39 points from 26 games played, one point above the drop zone, while West Brom are 5th with 60 points from 36 games.

“I’ve been told that West Brom played with two keepers for a while,” Cifuentes said.

“I’m not here to complain. I’m here to make sure my team is better, so if we need to play against two keepers then we need to practice playing against two keepers.

“Football is a game with mistakes and unfortunately refs can make mistakes as well. They have a very difficult job – the second most difficult job, after being a manager.

“On the pitch I thought their keeper made an amazing save – I mean the real keeper. That shows you how difficult the referee’s job is. I was shown it (on video) afterwards.”

“We created a lot of chances and could have scored more goals,” Cifuentes added.

“We need to be brave and have belief in ourselves. When we are brave then we play better.

“I’m sure that we are going to pick up points between now and the end of the season. I see progress.”

Play-off hopefuls West Brom extended their cushion over seventh-placed Norwich to five points.

West Brom boss Carlos Corberan said: “I’m pleased with a point, because for me a point was the maximum result we could have achieved today. The value of the point is very high.

“Of course you don’t want to (have to) defend as much as we were defending in the second half. We want to attack more and not concede that number of chances.

“For me, analysing this game, the best way to defend was to attack. In the first half we attacked enough but in the second half when we lost the ball we were close to losing the game.

“We were defending a lot. They had a lot of set-pieces and we weren’t active enough to stop them. They had more clear chances than the (second) goal.

“We lost the ball more times than we should have and gave them the option to attack us. We defended a lot and it was not enough to stop them.”

QPR (4-2-3-1): Begovic 5, Dunne 7, Cook 6, Clarke-Salter 6 (Fox), Paal 6 (Dykes), Field 8, Hayden 6 (Hodge), Andersen 7.5 (Willock), Chair 7, Smyth 6, Frey 6.5

Subs not used: Walsh, Cannon, Larkeche, Dixon-Bonner, Armstrong

Goals: Field (17’, 81’)

Manager: Marti Cifuentes

West Bromwich Albion (4-3-2-1): Palmer 7.5, Furlong 6, Kipre 7, Wallace 6, Diangana 6.5 (Swift), Pieters 6, Reach 6 (Pipa), Johnston 7.5 (Weimann), Mowatt 7, Fellows 6 (Ajayi), Yokuslu 6 (Chalobah)

Subs not used: Griffiths, Malcolm, M’Vila, Marshall

Goals: Johnston (24’), Diangana (27’)

Booked: Palmer

Manager: Carlos Corberan

Referee: Geoff Eltringham

Attendance: 16,818

Fans reacted with QPR angered by West Brom’s Cedric Kipre going unpunished as the official misses a blatant handball…

@markfeldy: Disgraceful. How do the refs continually get away with it. Absolute joke. Not only a pen a straight red.

@Warren_Stephens: It was a blatant penalty but neither Steve Cook nor any of his teammates appealed for it at the time. So to then claim it was a “terrible decision” is a convenient use of hindsight and a bit unfair on the officials.

@SamGrahamss: Officials were an absolute laughing stock tonight.

@LoftusRangers: What’s the lino there for then? Decoration?

@Hignett_Cameron: Cracking save tbf to the lad😂

@RickyFennn: This is absolutely fucking unreal from the WBA defender. I have never seen a better handball in my life. If WBA now go up after that it’s a dub. Steve Cook spitting furthers is hilarious as he tried to do the EXACT same thing for Bournemouth but he weren’t as crafty.

@IanBurnell27: Not even surprised a group of EFL officials missed it

@Brooko81: @EFL sort it out…….time after time after time……..stick your apology letter.

@natashaeveritt7: I love no VAR so much 😂😂😂

@KeatonFisher19: Surely it’s about time referees have to come out and explain decisions after the match. Just like how managers and players have too. How can’t they see this

@CityGroundShelf: Jesus Christ. Seriously, what’s the point anymore?

@sarahbuckley91: This is criminal 😅

@LoftforWords: The richest sport in the world. The country that spends the most money on it in the world. And in the second tier you have fat old twats waddling round with a whistle missing shit like this.

@WillM_20: Honking officiating but it’s against those lot so it’s fucking hilarious

@MSwift94: Imagine if we stay up due to this

@LRbix: World class save that is

@hazzascfc: If we stay up on goal difference and qpr go down. Up the fucking baggies

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