Coach Wally Downes believes Saturday's game with QPR had huge potential to be an upset, so he was relatively pleased to come away with a point.

Rangers sacked manager Iain Dowie just 24 hours before the game, with player/coach Gareth Ainsworth stepping into the breach.

The Sky TV cameras were in place as we came into the match with a 100% home record, and although we worked hard we could not find the incisive moment in the final third.

He said, "Football being what it is, I thought the game had banana skin written all over it for us.

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"It was live on Sky, they had no manager and we'd won seven out of seven...so thankfully we avoided the upset.

"I can't remember the last 0-0 we had at home - someone tells me it was Blackburn. In a season you get five or six terrific performances at home, five or six ropey ones and the rest you make sure you put your shift in. We put that shift in but didn't get the result.

"We huffed and puffed around the box and on another day one of them drops in for you.

"We've created expectation now and didn't perform as well today. If we'd scored early it would have opened it up.

"It wasn't a perfect performance but when that happens the first thing you do is make sure you don't lose."