despite starting each half brightly<\/a> for around 15 minutes.<\/p>\n“When you lose against a top, top team, you have to accept [it],” Stephan said. “And they are better than us. This is the reality. They deserve their win.<\/p>\n
“They had more quality, individually and collectively. More quality with the ball and without the ball. I have to say that we lost against a better team than us.<\/p>\n
“We will not face an opponent like this every time, but we need to be able to show more quality in possession.<\/p>\n
“In the last three games we didn’t score. In football if you don’t score and are only in defensive positions it’s very difficult to get a good result.<\/p>\n
“Of course we are not happy. It’s a difficult moment when you lose three games in a row and you concede many goals.<\/p>\n
“But I want to protect my players, because I know them and I know they tried to give their best. We need to stay together.”<\/p>\n
The R’s will seek to get back on track as they head to Birmingham City on Wednesday (19:45 GMT).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"QPR head coach Julien Stephan was philosophical after his side suffered a 4-0 home defeat to promotion-chasing Middlesbrough…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":157751,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[9,24,63,122,124,123],"class_list":["post-157750","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-queens","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-queens","tag-queens-headlines","tag-queens-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157750","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=157750"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157750\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/157751"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=157750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=157750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=157750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}