CHAMPIONSHIP Plymouth Argyle 0 QPR 1
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- Last Updated on Saturday, 18 January 2025 17:25
- Published on Saturday, 18 January 2025 17:25
Substitute Rayan Kolli scored the Hoops 65th minute winner.
Argyle started strongly, utilising Polish defender Tymo Puchascz's pace down the left.
Jonathan Varane was booked in the opening minute for a foul on Puchascz as he sped down the wing.
In the fifth minute a first time cross from Puchascz was cleverly flicked goalwards by Rami Al Hajj forcing Rangers keeper Paul Nardi into action. Nardi had the quietest of afternoon's unlike opposite number Dan Grimshaw.
Sam Field went closest for QPR early on, first-timing Paul Smyth’s cross from the right just past the near post on 13 minutes.
Smyth shot wide from the left in the 17th minute.
Hoops defender Ronnie Edwards did well to clear a low Bali Mumba cross away for a corner after being set-up by a defence splitting pass by midfielder Adam Randell.
Greens keeper Grimshaw made a superb 26th minute double save, punching a dangerous cross clear and then somehow keep out Kenneth Paal’s volleyed follow-up despite the fact he was still on the floor.
Edwards headed just wide from the 27th minute corner after it had been headed back across the face of goal to the far post.
Smyth again carved open the Argyle defence on a solo run in the 41st minute before his shot was deflected by Mumba straight into the path of QPR target man Michael Frey, whose shot from six yards was brilliantly saved by Grimshaw.
That save was surpassed by another super stop, with his arm, when Grimshaw denied Frey after he was put in on goal by Dunne in the 49th minute.
Sub Rayan Kolli should have done better when put clear down the left but his shot was deflected wide for a corner, which Grimshaw punched clear to safety.
Kolli immediately made amends with a superb finish in the corner to make it 1-0 on 65 minutes after Grimshaw initially saved Ilias Chair’s shot on the run after Mumba failed to control a high ball, instead putting the QPR playmaker in on goal.
Argyle sub Callum Wright tried his luck with a curling shot from the left, which flew just over the angle from 20 yards.
Michael Baidoo, Argyle’s new record signing, kept finding spaces and sent over a deft cross on 72 minutes to no avail.
New Plymouth boss Murin Muslic sent on Mustapha Bundu to replaced fit-again, recalled Scottish striker Ryan Hardie on 74 minutes.
Dunne made a superb off-the-line headed clearance to deny Morgan Whittaker as he curled the ball in from right on 84 minutes, with Bundu ready to pounce.
In stoppage time Field sent a thumping rising drive from fully 20 yards scorching inches past the post.
SWSN Star Dan Grimshaw
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