KARANKA’S CRANKY AT LATEST FLOP
QPR end 84-year wait for Forest win
FURIOUS Aitor Karanka is threatening changes after Nottingham Forest flopped at home again.
Karanka was embarrassed. He is the first Forest manager ever to be beaten at the City Ground by Queen’s Park Rangers.
It has taken 84 years for Rangers to pull off this win – 35 games, 20 of them defeats. Forest were desperately poor. Adlene Guedioura almost rescued it for them with a late 35yard screaming shot that Rangers keeper Joe Lumley flew to turn against the crossbar.
But Forest didn’t deserve anything out of the game. It’s their second successive 1-0 home defeat and seriously damages their promotion bid.
“It is soon January and the market will be open,” warns Karanka.
“If some of these players don’t want to be here and don’t have the mentality, then maybe we have to change.
“We didn’t approach this game in the way we needed to. If you don’t play to your best in the Championship it is impossible to win.
“In the first half I think we were playing a friendly game or a training session. If I had an explanation for that I would tell you.
“Today nothing happened. The problem is that at home we don’t play with our intensity.
“It is difficult to beat teams when they are coming here, playing their best, and we play