Warnock: We showed we can compete in EPL

Queens Park Rangers manager Neil Warnock said his side would savour their first win since returning to the English Premier League.

Warnock’s men were surprise 1-0 winners away to Everton on Satuday, just one week after being hammered 4-0 by Bolton on the opening day of the season.

A virus had sidelined several QPR players for the trip to Goodison Park, and Warnock said he has told his side to enjoy being back at the peak of English football.

“In a way the attitude we came up with epitomised the whole result,” said Warnock. “I said to them ‘Give me everything’ and they fought for each other.”

“I said ‘Let’s go and enjoy it’ because I’d rather be pulling up at Goodison Park than some of the Championship clubs we were last year.”

“It was a well-worked move for the goal and they showed we can compete in the Premier League.”

“In the circumstances we’ve had in the last 24 hours to do what they did was quite amazing and I couldn’t be prouder.”

“People like Patrick Agyemang (who started up front) were not in my thoughts for the last six weeks and at one o’clock I had to tell him he was playing – it is like something out of a comic book.”

It was a dark day for David Moyes’ Everton, with the Toffees looking bereft of ideas for much of the contest.

“It was a disappointing start, but we’ve had a few of them over the years,” Moyes told Sky Sports.

“We didn’t play well enough probably to win it, but I don’t think we deserved to lose it.”

“We limited them to very few opportunities but the chance they got they took it.”

“That’s football. It was down to Everton to try and come and break QPR down and we weren’t able to do that.”