Dowie delights at R's display
25 Sep 2008 - 11:33:26
Queens Park Rangers manager Iain Dowie was delighted with his side's performance in their 1-0 Carling Cup third round victory at Aston Villa.
A Damion Stewart goal just before the hour mark proved to be decisive at Villa Park, with Dowie delighted by his players' concentration in defence.
He said: "We gave it all we had. If we lose, we lose. I can cope with losing to good sides and maybe on another day Villa would have won.
"But it's not as though our goalkeeper had to make two or three world-class saves and that is testament to the effort they gave.
"Our defence was bang on. I have a big sheet in the dressing room saying that we have to deal with set-pieces and we did that very well.
"Not just first phase, but second phase too, they (Villa) didn't deal with the second-phase delivery and we got that right."