Source: Team_Talk
Harford rues woeful Rangers run
Gary Deegan's 10th-minute winner at the Ricoh Arena lifted the home side up to 10th in the Championship on the back of a five-match unbeaten run, but things look far less positive for Harford and co.[LNB]Rangers are sliding towards a relegation battle and Harford said: "We are very disappointed with the defeat. You run out of words to say when you are on a run like this because you don't get the rub of the green.[LNB]"You are always under pressure as a manager. You are judged on results. I would prefer to play poorly and win, that's what we need to do at the moment.[LNB]"I don't think we deserved to lose because they had one shot on target in the whole game and it took a deflection. It's my job to pick the players up but the spirit is good."[LNB]Sky Blues boss Chris Coleman, however, is watching his team make a surge for a play-off place.[LNB]He said: "I anticipated that it wasn't going to be a classic but we got the job done. It was one of those games where we had to grind it out and the lads did that.[LNB]"We said to them at half-time that it might be one of those games where we just had to dig in and get a result if we were not going to be at our best going forward, and that's exactly what happened.[LNB]"This win puts us within six points of the top six and eight points off the bottom three so we are on the up."[LNB]QPR started brightly by putting Coventry goalkeeper Keiren Westwood under pressure in the opening five minutes with two corners which he needed to palm away.[LNB]Coventry built on their 1-0 midweek win over Nottingham Forest by going ahead in the 10th minute through Deegan's first goal for the club.[LNB]A huge kick from Westwood reached Clinton Morrison with his back to goal and tenacious midfielder Deegan won a challenge to unleash a low shot from 20 yards which went in with the aid of a deflection.[LNB]With the visitors failing to put Coventry under any real pressure, Tamas Priskin was substituted for Antonio German in the 55th minute.[LNB]QPR slowly began to grow in confidence by dominating possession and Coleman brought on new loan signing Freddie Sears from West Ham for Morrison in a bid to turn the balance back in his team's favour.[LNB]But it was Harford's men who might have equalised when skipper Lee Cook's free-kick on the right was met by the head of Leon Barnett and was heading for the far corner until Westwood diverted the ball away for a corner.[LNB][LNB]
