MARTI Cifuentes felt QPR delivered their best performance so far during his tenure despite tasting defeat for the first time at Norwich City.
The Hoops had drawn their previous two games under the Spaniard but today were undone by Hwang Ui-jo’s 21st minute winner for the Canaries.
QPR remain second bottom and currently lie six points from safety after Huddersfield collected a point at home to Southampton.
However, Cifuentes was still taking some positives even if the outcome was not the one he wanted.
He told QPR TV: “My feeling is that the whole of our side are very disappointed because we came here to win a football game and we couldn’t, so we go back home with zero points.
“Despite that I think that the performance, when I look at it in a professional way and what I value, the performance is definitely our best game since I arrived in the last three games.
“We played with personality in a game away against a good football team, but we need to compete better.
“Football is not about deserving but about achieving.
“In that sense, I think today that perhaps we deserved a little more, but we couldn’t achieve what we wanted.”
Scoring remains a problem for the Hoops and they drew another blank at Norwich for the second consecutive match.
“It was a game with not many goal chances,” admitted Cifuentes.
“I think according to our high amounts of passing and situations in the last third we should be more clinical, more sharp in how to create the chance.
“But I think the team is trying to express themselves in an offensive way, trying to be higher on the pitch.
“I think that most of the time – it is true in the second half there were more interruptions – but even so, both in the first half and the second half we were quite high on the pitch, we were trying to penetrate their defence.”
However, QPR paid the price when Nottingham Forest loanee Ui-jo found the target, the manner in which it happened leaving the boss frustrated.
“The goal comes from almost nowhere, a sloppy situation from our side,” added Cifuentes.
“We need to compete better on this one. We defended our box well, we had good control of the contest.
“They are one of the teams that has scored the most goals this season, they didn’t create more than one shot on goal.
“Despite that, we need to get better.
“I want to concede even less and create much more because I think we’ve got the situations to be more clinical and create goal situations.”
