Nice to get our second consecutive league win. But again wish we had finished this game more comfortably. In fact, we were very fortunate to win this match as QPR could have got a penalty late in the match. After getting late goals to win matches earlier in the season, it is disappointing we are now conceding late goals to put pressure on ourselves. Atleast we are still managing to win the matches despite the late pressure on us. But Pochettino still need to improve our defending greatly if we want to stay in the top 4 race.
Big credit to Kane for getting both the goals that gave us this win. Nice to see him getting back his goal scoring touch after not scoring in his last 3 matches. It was world class the way he scored both goals, inch perfect header for the first and expertly rounding off the goalie for the second. In fact, Kane could have got the hattrick as he wasted another chance after Eriksen's shot came back off the post and had another header saved by the goalie. Amazingly, Kane has now scored 16 league goals and 26 goals in all competitions. It looks more and more likely that he can reach 30 goals now. This was also the 6th consecutive away match that Kane has scored in. For the record, RVP of Arsenal holds the record for scoring in 9 consecutive away match. On current form, it is not impossible for Kane to do that as he has scored in 8 of the 11 away matches he has played in the league this season.
Disappointingly, Eriksen failed to score despite playing well. In fact, just like Kane, Eriksen could have scored a hattrick as he had a shot come back off the post, had a shot saved off the line, had another saved by the goalie and wasted another chance to score from a freekick. Eriksen has now gone 8 matches without scoring which is disappointing. Maybe the luckless Soldado has jinxed him as Eriksen can't seem to score now despite doing all he can. This is in contrast to his form earlier where he was scoring with almost all his touches. We really need Eriksen to be scoring again soon.
Despite the win, was again disappointed we failed to keep a clean sheet. And for the 2nd consecutive match, we have let a former Spurs player score against us. It is a mixed feeling seeing Sandro scoring for QPR, just like Sigurdsson did for Swansea. We should have kept both of them as they could have improved our midfield greatly. Annoyingly, just like the Sigurdsson goal, no one thought of blocking Sandro from having that free shot at goal. Also felt Lloris could have done better with Sandro's shot but maybe his vision was blocked. That goal really put pressure on us and QPR could have got the equalizer late on. Thought we were lucky not to give away the penalty as Bentaleb appeared to block the shot with his hands. In fact QPR could have got another penalty when Lloris appeared to make contact with the QPR player in a one-on-one situations. But fortunately for us, we got the ref's decision in favour of us in both situations. Also thought we were also got luck in our favour when QPR had 2 shots off the posts.
It was important for us to get that win. We really cannot throw away any points if we want to stay in the top 4 race. Hope this win will boost our confidence and luck to do well against ManU next week.