QPR Story: 6th season: Fantastic end to a fantastic story

Hello and welcome to the FINAL QPR post I will write for you, dear readers. An exciting period of 12 games followed, with ups and downs. But as the title shows, it was a fairytale end to a fairytale story. Take a look at the results:

Cast your eye in particular to the Everton match, and look what competition it was in. Yes that's right, Queens Park Rangers have won the coveted UEFA Cup after agonisingly finishing runner up last season. A few bad results in between those fantastic European games, Athletic Bilbao away wasn't too great, and neither was the Wolves, Arsenal or Man City games. But the better results far outweighed the bad, Athletic Bilbao at home being an amazing result. We had only lost to them 3-2 7 days ago, then we thrashed them 5-0 at our place. Amazingly, 6 days later we had crushed Middlesbrough and Aston Villa by 3 goal margins, all with the same first 11. Zaragoza at home, Bolton at home, Everton (of course) and Liverpool at home were the other excellent results, Liverpool especially for reasons you will see now:

Yes, 4th place and a Champions League spot was won on the very last day. Our loss to Man City had put us on the same points as them, albeit with better goal difference. We knew we had to win the game as soon as Man City went 2-0 up against West Ham in the first 10 minutes. Then Liverpool scored, causing me to angrily thump the table. When 90 minutes were up, I went back to my computer, and stunningly found us 4-1 winners. Sokratis Papastathopoulos scored twice, and Pato scored the other 2. Surprisingly, fringe player Viktor Boudianski assisted all 4 goals, which would have made me really think about playing him more, if I had carried this story on. Anyway, let us move on to the final player ratings for the season:

Some very good performances there, and Franco Zuculini has finally been taken over as best performer by winger Ashley Young. But if you look at his stats, then you can hardly argue with that fact. Anyway, top scorer is Keirrison with 23 goals in 43 starts, better than 1 in 2! Pato is next, with 16 goals in 35 starts, not far off 1 in 2. 3rd is still incredibly Sokratis Papastathopoulos with an absolutely amazing 15 goals in 49 starts. When a central defender is scoring almost 1 in 3, you know he is something special. Anyway, top assister is Ashley Young collecting a magnificent 34 assists. Way behind is Franco Zuculini, still grabbing a very good 14, and 3rd is Sebastian Dupont, with 11. Top rated player is, as mentioned above, Ashley Young with 7.35. Second is Franco Zuculini on 7.34 and 3rd is Sebastian Dupont on 7.26. Top passer is Pato with 80% of his passes reaching their mark. Tied second are Jack Wilshere and Keirrison both of them hitting 77% of their passes to a teammate. And 4th place goes to Christos Oikonomou and Ivan Rakitic having 76% of their passes on target. Anyway, I shall now give you a little treat, the value of all my players, in descending order of course. Enjoy:

As you can see, some very good players there, and mostly all above £2m, which is good. Even better is that half of the players are over £5m, which is tantamount to a VERY good squad of players, and well deserving of a top 4 place.

Before I go, I would like to thank everyone for reading this story to the end, and hopefully your loyalty has been rewarded with this amazing finish to the 6th season. It is looking increasingly likely that Southampton will be the chosen team for my next story, as the polls will close tonight at 10pm. So if you are unhappy with Southampton, get voting! It has been a pleasure writing this story, and I am glad to say that it finished happily ever after.

The End.