Thursday 30 October 2014 14:53, UK
Midfielder Karl Henry insists QPR’s struggling squad are fighting for manager Harry Redknapp.
Rangers are bottom of the Premier League table having picked up just four points from their first eight matches of the season.
They suffered a heart-breaking 3-2 loss to Liverpool at Loftus Road on Sunday, which saw them twice come from behind late on before conceding the game’s decisive goal deep into injury time.
However, Henry – who played in Sunday’s defeat – insists the Rangers players are battling hard for their boss in an attempt to avoid a repeat of their last Premier League campaign, at the end of which they suffered relegation in 2012/13.
"We are fighting for Harry, but we're also fighting for ourselves and the club,” said the 31-year-old.
"It's a good job that we have here. It's well documented that footballers get paid well, we know the situation we're in and we're giving it everything.
"Any suggestion that we're not, we're not happy about. I felt we gave a good account of ourselves on that front, but it's all in vain."
QPR played well in Sunday’s match and looked to have snatched a point when substitute Eduardo Vargas equalised for the second time after Philippe Countinho had given the visitors a 2-1 lead.
However, Steven Caulker’s own goal – the second Rangers scored in the game after Richard Dunne put the ball into his own net to give Liverpool the lead – gave Brendan Rodgers’ side a last-gasp win.
"Harry was not happy. He was shouting at us of course, we threw it away. It was naive from us, unprofessional. It can't happen," added Henry.
"Someone said in the dressing room that it wouldn't have even happened in an Under-11s game. The goals we conceded were shocking.
"How were we unprofessional? Like with the first goal. They take a quick free kick and we were asleep. It was ridiculous.
"Then having them break on us for the second goal, running out of their box quicker than we did. You cross the ball and it drops in their box and it's not possible that they have four of five bodies in our box and we're not with them. That shouldn't be possible.
"You get to 2-2 late on in the game - you don't concede. But we dropped the free kick short rather than run it in the stand or making sure it's long, in the corner, somewhere else.
"Everyone in the dressing room was really disappointed afterwards. We were extremely disappointed in ourselves - we let ourselves down.
"We played well for large parts of the game, to come in with no points is a joke. But we only have ourselves to blame."
