"They Deserved It"

“We didn’t get started from the first whistle,” said a forlorn looking Mick McCarthy after his side took a 3-0 thumping from newly promoted Queens Park Rangers.

“Why that is, goodness knows.”

Maybe it was the distraction of a power cut at the Molineux, that almost caused the fixture to be abandoned, just 3 hours before kick-off that unsettled Mick’s Wolves side but the Wolves boss wasn’t going to make excuses for his sides poor performance.

“I wont take anything away from them, they played well,” added McCarthy.

“But they were aided and abated by a poor performance from all of us, myself included, that was as bas as we’ve been.”

Wolves’ awful start was punished by a ruthless QPR. With new faces all over the starting eleven including Luke Young, Shawn Wright-Phillips and Joey Barton Neil Warnock’s men have transformed from a relegation favorite to a strong candidate for Premiership survival in a matter of weeks.

Barton was the first to beat Wayne Hennessey, clipping a scuffed shot into the bottom corner after Wright-Phillips bounced his volleyed cross towards the new QPR captain.

After nine minutes the visitors had doubled their lead, this time Barton turning provider as his cross was never cleared from danger by the leaky Wolves defense, Alejandro Faurlin chested the lose ball down before hitting a his strike into Hennessey’s bottom corner from 20 yards out.

QPR pressed for most of the game as the Wolves midfield of struggled to contain and hold the visitor’s advances.

Barton, Wright-Phillips and Faurlin all had chances to grab a third, including a Wright-Phillips strike that struck the foot of the post before bouncing back to a grateful Hennessey.

But Wolves clung on until, with three minutes remaining, substitute DJ Cambell grabbed his first goal of the campaign, placing the ball into an empty net after Armand Traore broke into the Wolves box before squaring to his Rangers team mate.

Carl Henry had almost pulled Wanderers right back into the fixture just after QPR took their second goal. But the midfielder’s effort struck the outside of the post and bounced clear, to the dismay of the fans behind the goal.

Henry’s effort proved to be the only real chance of the game for Wolves, aside from a late free kick from Jamie O’Hara, and McCarthy knows that his sides performance is disappointing especially after their bright start the season.

“We played well last week. We’ve had four excellent performances up until today.”

“They [QPR] deserved to win, they were better then us today.”