It's the Football League Playoff Championship where one lucky team will be promoted to the Barclays Premier League while the other will have to endure another season in the second division of English football. For Queens Park Rangers, they are playing with the dire need of advancing due to all the financial problems that plagued them since they were relegated to the Football League from the Premier League. The winner of this championship game would essentially receive 200 million (100 million for advancing and another 100 million over four years if they are relegated after the first season) so you can see why Queens Park would want this. For Derby County, it's a chance to make it back to the Barclays Premier League after they had won this same championship game back in 2007 when the New Wembley Stadium had just opened. The first half of the game featured little to no real chances as both teams were struggling to get a real substantial shot on net, but Derby County were the better team overall.
The second half was much of the same where Derby County were just outplaying Queens Park who feature more players with Premier league experience than Derby County. In the 60TH minute, things would get a lot worse for Queens Park as midfielder Gary O'Neil would give up a careless foul outside of the box that should have been a straight yellow card, but the referee elected to give him a straight red card. Things would look absolutely bleak for Queens Park Rangers as they faced tons of pressure from Derby County, but luck would eventually fall on their side. In the 90TH minute of play, Junior Hoilett was able to win the ball need the goal line where he would cross back towards the front of the box where Derby County's Richard Keogh would be there to intercept, but he failed to clear the ball and Bobby Zamora would make them pay his he rocketed the ball past the Derby County goalkeeper for what would be the loan goal of the game. Queens Park Rangers playing with a man down were able to take advantage of the one opportunity they were given in the second half to win the promotion to the Barclays Premier League. My man of the match award goes to defender Richard Dunn who stepped up big time in this game especially when his team was down a man so congratulations to him and the Queens Park Rangers.
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