Queens Park Rangers were beaten 1-0 by Aston Villa yesterday.
Ian Holloway has admitted to West London Sport that he should have taken Tjaronn Chery off during Queens Park Rangers’ defeat to Aston Villa.
Holloway left Chery until the 78th minute in the hope that QPR would pick up the three points, but his decision backfired, as Rangers slipped to a 1-0 loss.
The 53-year-old boss concedes that if he had brought a more defensive player on earlier, QPR may have managed to get a draw out of the fixture.
However, Holloway insists that he would have been sending out the wrong message to his QPR team, if he stating playing for a point.
“Deep down maybe I should have put one of the defensive midfield players and taken Chery off, just to block us up. But I felt we would be good enough still to win it.
“I could’ve put on Sandro, I could’ve put on Ariel, but I still believed we might win. So I’m going to have to look at that and say ‘is that the right decision?’
“We might have got a point, we might not have done. But what message would that have given my team?”
Villa scored the only goal of the match through Jonathan Kodjia, to pick up the three points.
Kodjia picked the ball up out wide, before cutting inside and slamming it beyond Alex Smithies in QPR’s goal.
Holloway’s side have now lost their last five matches in succession, and they have slipped down to 19th place in the Championship table.
QPR are next in action on the 27th December, when they take on high flying Brighton & Hove Albion.
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