Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink insists QPR deserved a point out of Saturday’s game after slipping up 1-0 at Sheffield Wednesday.

Wednesday now sit four points off the automatic promotion spots despite a goal difference of just +1, with all seven of their victories this season coming by a single goal from Gary Hooper.

QPR could have escaped this game with a point had Tom Lees not cleared Tjaronn Chery’s shot off the line in the last few seconds.

But despite that let-off, the Owls were clearly the better side throughout and deserved their latest slender victory, with 21-year-old goalkeeper Cameron Dawson only forced into two difficult saves of note on his first start for the club.

That last-ditch Lees clearance followed moments later, leaving QPR manager Jimmy-Floyd Hasselbaink lamenting the loss.

Hasselbaink said: “I think we deserved at least a point, but that’s football.

“When you come to Hillsborough you know that at stages you’re going to come under pressure, just because they’re a very good side.

“We had the pressure but despite all that pressure, they didn’t really work my goalkeeper. Yeah, they shot at the goal, but they were never on target.

“But nor did we create as much. There was a great save from their goalkeeper at a corner and that wins them the game.

“The performance from the players was good, it’s just unfortunate that we couldn’t get a point out of the game.”

Dawson was first pressed into action with a bottom-corner dive to keep out Chery’s long-ranger.

The more impressive stop came ten minutes after the break as Nedum Onuoha got on the end of Chery’s corner, only for Dawson to throw out an arm and just about keep it out.

QPR had a goal disallowed midway through the first half but there was no doubt the officials got it right as they spotted Conor Washington’s push on Jack Hunt in the build-up to his header.

Other than that it was all Wednesday, with Daniel Pudil going incredibly close to scoring his second goal in two games after equalising against Cardiff in midweek, striking the crossbar off Lees’ knockdown from a corner.

Hooper got the only goal late in the first half as he semi-comically flicked David Jones’ wayward shot into his own face before beating Alex Smithies in the Rangers goal.

The striker wasn’t far off adding a second on 58 minutes, but Adam Reach’s ball flashed across the goalmouth marginally too quickly for Hooper to poke home.

Wednesday forward Fernando Forestieri had two late chances, but got his angles slightly wrong from two nearly-identical shots to the far post in the 78th and 94th minutes.

Wednesday boss Carlos Carvalhal said: “When we win the ball we can play and make chances, like we did, and we really deserved to win the three points.

“Cameron did very well during the game and especially two saves, but in proportion, we could probably score four or five also.

“When you talk about Dawson it’s not like QPR created two or three chances and we created nothing: we created a lot.

“He did well and the defence did well, but clean sheets, like we achieved the record in last season, is not just about the goalkeeper or the defensive line but also an organised collective process.”

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