QUEENS Park Rangers boss Julien Stephan believes he has “good foundations” to build on after the Hoops finished fifteenth in the Frenchman’s first season in charge.
QPR had little to play for and couldn’t do Millwall a favour at Portman Road, as Ipswich Town scored twice in the opening nine minutes and added a third late on to seal an immediate return to the Premier League, with the Lions finishing a point behind in third.
“It was a season with a lot of ups and downs, I think like many, many teams in this league, but the main thing is I don’t know which is the level of this group,” Stephan said.
“So it was a strong experience and it’s really important now to think about the future.
“It’s a good project, good fans, good management, good mentality into the dressing room, so we have some good foundations.
“I said to the players before the game it will probably be a wild fifteen to 20 minutes on the pitch and they started as expected, very strongly, but we didn’t find a way to respond in terms of intensity and they killed us in the first fifteen minutes.
“After we found a way to respond it was better in the second half, but we didn’t find a way to score.”
