Adel Taarabt's fortune helps QPR to down Pompey's paupers



 

Adel Taarabt was quiet in the first half but was influential in the second period, scoring the opening goal. Photograph: Dean Mouhtaropoulos/Getty Images

Queens Park Rangers still head this toughest of divisions courtesy of Adel Taarabt, the former Spurs midfielder who is surely heading back to the Premier League.

Fifty-nine minutes had passed when Taarabt ran at Portsmouth's defence before striking a 20-yard shot that slipped though Jamie Ashdown's fingers for the goal that swung the game. "I thought in first half he did all right and then he came in to it even more," said the Rangers manager Neil Warnock of the 21-year-old Moroccan

Warnock - No Utd move for star



Queens Park Rangers boss Neil Warnock has told Adel Taarabt to forget thinking about a possible move to Manchester United.
The Moroccan playmaker recently claimed United were keeping tabs on his progress at Loftus Road.
Former Tottenham man Taarabt has been in scintillating form for QPR this season, helping them to the top of the Championship.
Warnock claims United came to watch Taarabt during last weekend's goalless draw at Hull City when the skilful attacker
showed his moody side as he bickered with his team-mates and asked to be substituted during the first half of the game.
Rangers chief Warnock has warned Taarabt he may have blown his chance of a move to United and he is delighted as it means he will end up staying at Loftus Road.
"He let himself down on Saturday," said Warnock.
"United came to watch him and he had a strop. I said on the bus that's done that, hasn't it?
"He can forget about joining United. I'm delighted because it means we've no chance of losing him now."

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