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QPR manager frustrated at referee not giving two penalties while Ipswich fans boo their players

QPR manager Marti Cifuentes was frustrated at the referee for not giving two penalties while Ipswich fans boo their players at full time.

Referee David Webb decided to wave away both appeals in the second half, with the first being after Luke Woolfenden clashed with Paul Smyth in the box.

Then second one saw Queens Park Rangers claiming that the ball had struck the arm of Kayden Jackson, with the referee’s decision also riling up fans in the away end at Portman Road no Friday night.

“My team was really committed, really focused, against a very good side, one of the best in the league,” said Cifuentes, with his side staying 22nd in the Championship table.

“We had perhaps less chances than we would like to create, but there were two clear penalties (we weren’t given) – the second was a clear handball.

“I’m not sure the solution for those things is the VAR. That’s another philosophical discussion. We take it, we learn from this, assume those situations happen in a game and be better.

“The reality is we have scored one goal in the last four games and we need to get much better than that.”

Cifuentes told www.qpr.co.uk: “We’re never satisfied with a point – but I’m satisfied with the performance, it was very important that we bounced back after the disappointment of Millwall.

“Everyone knows how good Ipswich are, especially at home, but we managed the game very well.

“Sometimes football is not just about the tactics – it’s about togetherness and commitment and the lads worked together as a team. That’s the standard that we’ve set and must deliver in the future.”

Rangers had separate shouts for a second-half penalty turned away after Smyth went down under challenge in the box, while a handball decision also went against the R’s.

Cifuentes adds: “I prefer to control what we can control so that marginal decisions don’t cost us – but we could’ve had at least one penalty tonight.

“Who knows what would’ve happened if we’d have been given one of them.”

Ipswich manager Kieran McKenna said after the game, via East Anglian Daily Times: “Yeah… I didn’t think it was a very good match, or general performance, or general atmosphere.

“Of course it was a really difficult build-up to the match, right up to two minutes before kick-off when Nathan Broadhead is vomiting in the dressing room. That’s a few players now with the same vomiting bug and probably a couple more to come to be honest.

“So yeah, a difficult build-up. It wasn’t a great game. Of course there are a lot of factors behind that. It’s a third game in six days after a massive effort (against Leeds and Leicester). Players are humans.

“I thought the effort levels, especially in the second half, were excellent. We tried really, really hard. We had some chances to win the game and didn’t give up any chances from open play really. It was just the one header from a set play.

“Ultimately we didn’t do quite enough to win the game though.

“Of course we could have played better, but my feet are firmly rooted in reality. We’re playing against a QPR team with much more Championship experience. They’re a much more established Championship team than us. We make an awful lot of changes to the team in one go and not many of those were optional. So it was always going to be a difficult game.

“If anyone was coming here tonight thinking we were going to just turn up and batter QPR in what was a third game in six days with the quality they have in their side… Of course that’s what we aim for in every game, and we’ve done incredible to achieve quite a lot of victories this year, but that’s not the reality.

“It’s humans, professional footballers doing their best, for a third game in six days. Some are coming into the team who haven’t played in a long time, all at the same time, against another good team.

“We didn’t perform as well as we would have liked and weren’t able to produce the sort of game we would have liked for the supporters. But that’s the reality of football.”

Ipswich: Hladky, Williams (Clarke 63′), Woolfenden, Burgess, Humphreys, Ball (Taylor 64′), Luongo, Hutchinson (Aluko 88′), Chaplin, Harness (Buabo 87′), Ladapo (Jackson 63′)

Subs: Walton, Clarke, Edmundson, Taylor, Jackson, Aluko, Baggott, Tuanzebe, Buabo

QPR: Begovic, Cannon, Cook (Dunne 71′), Clarke-Salter, Paal, Dozzell, Field, Dixon-Bonner (Dykes 64′), Willock (Smyth 45′), Chair (Larkeche 77′), Armstrong (Kolli 78′)

Subs: Kakay, Dunne, Dykes, Smyth, Archer, Larkeche, Drewe, Adomah, Kolli

This is what Twitter users are saying as the QPR manager was frustrated at referee not giving two penalties while Ipswich fans boo their players…

ON THE BOOS FROM IPSWICH FANS:

@stuarttthodson: The people who booed at full time are 100% the people who have become Ipswich fans since we’ve turned good in the last two years. If your gonna boo, fuck off back to being a glory hunter. This fucking fan base is becoming a joke #itfc

@DexterA04: If you boo’d, get to fuck. Plastics. #itfc

@Regularhero: If you boo’d tonight hang your head in shame, where we you during the dark years! we are 3 clear in second after being promoted, 2023 has been an incredible year for #ITFC tonight’s frustrating for sure but the players have been phenomenal so far, we are still well in the hunt.

@HarryCundy1: Boos at FT? Grow up

@GregRCooper: Some town fans are really annoying me right now. Where were you lot during the Paul Hurst/Paul Lambert era? Don’t boo at full time just because we drew. Don’t start being entitled pricks like Leeds and scum! #itfc

@studarnell: No way anyone should boo this team / squad absolute joke

@njlloyd90: Probably the same fans that moan in patient build up play (keeping possession) And shout get rid of it đŸ€Šâ€â™‚ïž

@itfcs88: How entitled our fan base has become đŸ€Šâ€â™‚ïž boos at full time – fuck off. #itfc

@jacobrevillneil: boos at full time😭, laughable. 2 points dropped understood but we are 2nd in league, nowhere near where we thought we would be. We have so many fickle fans it’s a joke. Only positive of us having a blip now is hopefully all these fickle fans can do one. Onto stoke đŸ””

@coxmattyy: Fuck off with the boos, defo the people that turn up the odd 2 times a season
 #itfc

@J4M35W94: All the ones that boo’d tonight are most likely the ones that have stayed away for many years! Going into 2024 2nd in the championship 3points ahead of Southampton and 9 ahead of Leeds.. I’m over the moon to be honest! #itfc

@Regularhero: If you boo’d tonight hang your head in shame, where we you during the dark years! we are 3 clear in second after being promoted, 2023 has been an incredible year for #ITFC tonight’s frustrating for sure but the players have been phenomenal so far, we are still well in the hunt.

@Jon_ITFC: Whoever boo’d don’t bother coming back. Same with you Ladapo. Never want to see you in a town shirt again. Buabo offered more in 10 mins #itfc

ON THE HANDBALL INCIDENT:

@SteveH1982: Didn’t think Smyth’s one was a penalty. But the handball
. fuck me. #QPR

@qprmicky: #qpr that’s a point that I think we’d all have taken before KO, we put in a real shift & deserved it, in fact if the ref hadn’t bottled both shouts for a penalty, we could’ve had all 3, the handball was blatant, let’s hope our injuries aren’t going to keep players out,we need them all

@miles_qpr: How many times are refs gonna Fuck us over. That’s a fucking clear handball at the end

@LoftusRangers: That actually was a handball at the end as well 😂 another one the officials missed. Look I know they’re 2nd, but Ipswich were here for the taking today. A bit more attacking quality and we could’ve taken 3 points. Solid performance though #QPR

@SouvlakiGazz:
Reality check:
1. Smyth wasn’t a penalty
2. Handball was a penalty
3. We’re relying on penalties to win games.
4. We can’t score for sh*t
5. The odd decent performance and point or 3 won’t keep us up.
6. We’ve needed a striker for years, what r chances they find 1 in Jan?
#QPR

@MichaelAHann: Good point for QPR. Smyth penalty appeal was soft, and deserved to be turned down. The handball, though? How do you miss that? That said, couldn’t say QPR deserved to win. Begovic definitely did more work.

@superhoops10: Both nailed on, from someone sat behind that goal

@RossW1985: Didn’t think Smyth’s was a pen but the handball definitely was. Played alright tonight but still no quality in the final 3rd #QPR

@nips042632: Great result but let down by poor officials again
. How was that not a handball
 needed that run of the green after that performance #qpr #EFL

@aboxer11: You won’t see a more blatant handball. Incredible officiating. #qpr

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