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.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."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."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."Sky Blues boss Chris Coleman, however, is watching his team make a surge for a play-off place.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."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."This win puts us within six points of the top six and eight points off the bottom three so we are on the up."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.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.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.With the visitors failing to put Coventry under any real pressure, Tamas Priskin was substituted for Antonio German in the 55th minute.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.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.