Source: Team_Talk
Sturrock takes positives from draw
QPR took a 43rd-minute lead through Heidar Helguson who swept in to head home from close range after Adel Taarabt's strike was deflected across the face of Romain Larrieu's goal.
Larrieu kept Argyle in the game with a string of superb stops, notably denying Rangers sub Rowan Vine as he raced through one on one in the 87th minute.
Larrieu also tipped over a scorching first-half Akos Buzsaky free kick from 30 yards and somehow got a hand to turn Wayne Routledge's 30th-minute first-time strike aside as under-pressure Plymouth failed to clear their lines successfully from a Buzsaky corner.
The French keeper also denied Taarabt in the 33rd minute after the Moroccan exchanged passes with former Argyle midfielder Buzsaky before letting fly from six yards.
Sturrock admitted: "I am going to take the positives from the game and doff my cap on deserving a point this time.
"I was really pleased with how we played in the second half after going 1-0 down in the first.
"It's the sort of game we might have lost 2-0 last season.
"This season I have seen a new resolve in us, we kept going until the final minute and that never-say-die attitude earned us a merited point."
Sturrock was also pleased with debutant Cillian Sheridan, the new loan signing from Celtic, introduced as a half-time substitute.
The Argyle boss said: "Cillian did well, I thought he looked to get in there and get around the goal. He did well seeing he has only been with us a couple of days."
Hoops boss Jim Magilton said: "We are disappointed with the final moment, their goal, especially after we had dealt with their set pieces all afternoon.
"I thought (central defender) Fitz Hall, all of the back four and goalkeeper (Radek Cerny) were outstanding for us. But you have got to play until the final whistle and credit to Plymouth they kept coming at us and coming at us.
"The save Larrieu made from Wayne Routledge in the first half was wonderful and the one from Rowan near the end there was a turning point.
"We set out very attack minded today, we dominated possession, we had some wonderful opportunities to win the game.
"I think if Rowan had put the ball in the back of the net that might have been it but it was a great save.
"But we didn't lose the game and we know that Plymouth is a difficult place to come and Paul (Sturrock) threw everything at us and probably feels as if he got his just reward."
