Hughes excited by new look attack

by Setanta Staff , 03 February 2012 football news

QPR boss Mark Hughes is backing his new-look strike force to guide the team to Premier League safety and beyond.


Hughes is convinced his £10m investment on Bobby Zamora and Djibril Cisse will prove money well spent as he believes the duo are good enough to take the Londoners into the top-half of the table.

The Welshman knows Zamora particularly well from his time working with him at Fulham, and he is set to be unleashed for his R's debut in Saturday's crucial game against Wolves.

However, Hughes is just as excited about the man who the England international will be playing alongside, having watched the former Liverpool and Sunderland marksman score for his new club in Wednesday's 2-2 draw with Aston Villa.

"I'm really looking forward to seeing them play together, they've got great qualities that will complement each other," Hughes said.

"I think Bobby enjoyed his time under me at Fulham. The type of work we gave him helped him and we supported him when he was out through injury.

"When he came back in the second half of last season he was exceptional and was a big reason why we ended up eighth in the Premier League. If he can have a similar impact in the second half of this season that will augur well for us because we need to win games and score goals, that's why he is here."

Cisse, 30, is back in England after spells with Panathinaikos and Lazio and took just 12 minutes to get off the mark for his new club at Villa Park.

Hughes added: "Djibril's style of play is made to measure for the Premier League. In Italy the style of play was too slow, he's very much a Premier League player in my opinion.

"If you look at his goalscoring record he has played just over 450 games and scored 220 goals, at top clubs, and not many strikers have that goals-to-game ratio. I'm very comfortable with the work we did in the window and the quality of strikers is now very good."

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Team P W D L +/- PTS
1.
Man City
38
28
5
5
64
89
2.
Man Utd
38
28
5
5
56
89
3.
Arsenal
38
21
7
10
25
70
4.
Tottenham
38
20
9
9
25
69
5.
Newcastle
38
19
8
11
5
65
6.
Chelsea
38
18
10
10
19
64
7.
Everton
38
15
11
12
10
56
8.
Liverpool
38
14
10
14
7
52
9.
Fulham
38
14
10
14
-3
52
10.
West Brom
38
13
8
17
-7
47
11.
Swansea
38
12
11
15
-7
47
12.
Norwich
38
12
11
15
-14
47
13.
Sunderland
38
11
12
15
-1
45
14.
Stoke
38
11
12
15
-17
45
15.
Wigan
38
11
10
17
-20
43
16.
Aston Villa
38
7
17
14
-16
38
17.
QPR
38
10
7
21
-23
37
18.
Bolton
38
10
6
22
-31
36
19.
Blackburn
38
8
7
23
-30
31
20.
Wolverhampton
38
5
10
23
-43
25
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