QPR boss Hughes allays Faurlin injury fears
Boss Mark Hughes is optimistic the injury Alejandro Faurlin suffered during QPR’s League Cup defeat against Reading is not serious.
Faurlin, who recently returned from cruciate damage, had to be helped off the pitch with three minutes of the game remaining.
Hughes believes the problem is not related to Faurlin’s previously injured knee, although the popular Argentine’s condition has yet to be fully assessed.
Hughes said: “I’ve not had an update. I think he landed on his hip, which then made it difficult for him to walk so he had to come off.
“I’m pretty certain it’s not his knee. It seemed like a dead leg and thankfully not too serious.”
Rangers’ 3-2 loss came after they had led twice and looked to be heading into the fourth round for only the second time in 16 years when Djbril Cisse’s goal put them 2-1 up.
Hughes selected a strong side for the game, but admitted, “It didn’t do us much good, did it?
“At 2-1 going into the last period of the game I certainly felt we’d done enough. I felt we were in the ascendancy.
“At 2-2 it was anyone’s game, and we’re disappointed with the third goal. There were too many consecutive mistakes allowing him [Pavel Pogrebnyak] to back-heel the ball in.
“We conceded two poor goals. The first was from a set-play and it’s always disappointing when you give key roles to people to mark in the box and then that happens. We need to tighten up defensively.”
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