Queens Park Rangers 1-3 West Bromwich Albion: Josh Maja scores hat-trick

QPR boss Marti Cifuentes:

“I’m not satisfied with our performance. Even though we took the lead and had good moments after we scored we started to drop (back). The equaliser was a consequence of us dropping too much and defending too passive.

“The three goals actually were pretty bad. West Brom shot on goal four times and three were a goal. That shows a big difference.

“It’s a good reality check to understand something that I’ve been speaking a lot about in the last weeks, about understanding that the reality of this league is very challenging.

“Hopefully in the long term it will help everyone to understand where we are. We need to be very humble and work very hard to achieve what we want to achieve.”

West Brom boss Carlos Corberan:

“The last year was unfortunately a very complicated year for Josh Maja.

“He suffered a very unfair situation in the last year but came back this summer with the mentality to recover and to make his best.

“He has been working very hard in pre-season and that’s why today he was able to impact the game.

“If he hadn’t been working in the way that he was working – when the team had holidays, he was working a lot – it would have been impossible today to see a performance like the one we saw.”