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  • Kick-off: 15:00
  • Venue: Home Park
  • Attendance: 12138
  • Referee: Marriner, A

Live Commentary

90mins

That's it, it's all over, the referee has blown the final whistle.

90mins

Marc Nygaard is being taken off, Kevin Gallen has come on in his place.

88mins

QPR are replacing Dexter Blackstock with Ray Jones.

76mins

QPR are replacing Marc Bircham with Steve Lomas.

76mins

Sylvan Ebanks-Blake is replaced by Reuben Reid.

74mins

Plymouth are replacing Akos Buzsaky with Nick Chadwick.

65mins

Lee Cook is booked for unsporting behaviour.

46mins

The second half is under way with the score currently at 1 v 1.

45mins

The ref has blown his whistle for half time.

43mins

Damion Stewart is booked for unsporting behaviour.

33mins

Marc Bircham goes into the referees book for unsporting behaviour.

31mins

Goal!! Plymouth have scored with Sylvan Ebanks-Blake putting it in the back of the net.

23mins

Hasney Aljofree is booked for unsporting behaviour.

17mins

Goal!! Dexter Blackstock scores for QPR.

0mins

It's 3pm on Saturday, September 9th, the match has kicked off.

Match Report

Plymouth Argyle starlet Sylvan Ebanks-Blake marked his full home debut with his first goal since his summer move from Manchester United, but it was not enough to break Ian Holloway's Home Park hoodoo.

Facing the club who he parted company with during the summer, Holloway saw his new charges dominate the game after going behind to a 16th-minute Dexter Blackstock goal for visiting QPR.

Blackstock, who had a loan spell at Argyle two seasons ago, latched on to a tremendous through-ball from midfielder Lee Cook to score through the legs of goalkeeper Luke McCormick.

The Pilgrims then threw everything at Rangers but, although Ebanks-Blake leveled on the half-hour, they could not give Holloway his first home win at the fourth time of asking.

Ebanks-Blake latched on to Paul Connolly's pass to take the ball past central defender Zesh Rehman and goalkeeper Paul Jones and curl the ball home.

Ebanks-Blake's goal totally changed the game and, after that, the play belonged entirely to the home side, but Rangers kept their shape, got behind the ball and frustrated the Pilgrims.

Veteran striker Barry Hayle and Ebanks-Blake terrorised the Rangers' defence, the latter's rampaging down the right nearly setting up the former for a tap-in.

Hungarian playmaker Akos Buzsaky, making his first start of the season, went close with a decent drive following a run that totally baffled Rangers' Italian left-back Mauro Milanese.

Lee Hodges sent in a swinging cross that was only a few inches too high for Ebanks-Blake to apply a meaningful header and then David Norris played in Ebanks-Blake for an apparently free run on goal, but Rehman snuffed out the threat.

Norris was then denied by centre-back Damion Stewart before the Argyle midfielder set up Ebanks-Blake for another header that flew over the crossbar.

The only Rangers attack of the second half came when they worked the ball forward to great Dane Marc Nygaard for a shot which McCormick saved well at the foot of his post.

Plymouth Argyle

Queens Park Rangers

Corners

142

Fouls

1720

Goal attempts

154

Shots off target

110

Offsides

17

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