Championship

STEPHAN: MBENGUE SENDING-OFF WAS KEY

by
The LeaguePaper Team
25 January 2026

GUTTED: Stephan

QPR boss Julien Stephan admitted Amadou Mbengue’s dismissal was a pivotal moment, even though he refused to directly blame him.
The often over-zealous Mbengue was already on a yellow card – his 10th of the season – when he rashly fouled George Thomason.
“To finish the game with 10 players in the last minute had a huge impact, I think, at the end of the game,” said Stephan. “But I don’t want to analyse the game only of the last five or six minutes. We need to have a full analysis of the game. We were very dominant in t...

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