Mark Hughes

The R’s boss was described the first-half as, arguably, the worst performance any of his sides have produced

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QPR boss Mark Hughes was furious with his side’s first-half performance but delighted with how they reacted after half-time.

The west London club found themselves 3-0 down at the interval but scored two second-half goals to set up a grandstand finish, although they returned from Ewood Park with nothing.

“You can’t give any Premier League team a three-goal head start,” Hughes said.

“We were very poor in that first half. The first 45 minutes were arguably the poorest we have been since I came through the door here and arguably of any of the teams I have been involved with to be honest.

“It’s understandable in that we haven’t been through the door for any great length of time, but there shouldn’t be a difference in performance of that size (between the first half and second half).

“The first half wasn’t acceptable, although we will take a little bit of comfort from the second half because I thought we then completely dominated proceedings.”