Despite making his reputation as a striker - QPR boss Jimmy Floyd Hasellbaink believes great sides are built from back to front.
The former Chelsea and Holland forward says Rangers need to emulate the resilience of Saturday’s opponents Birmingham City as a first step back towards Premier League football.
Hasselbaink’s men produced one of their best performances of his three-month reign to overcome the Blues 2-0 at Loftus Road.
But the Championship table confirms it is Gary Rowett’s side and not the Rs’ who still harbour a realistic chance of returning to English football’s top table this term.
Hasselbaink believes it is Birmingham’s increasingly Scrooge-like defence – just three conceded in eight games before Saturday’s defeat - which makes them contenders, the very label his own club aspires to.
“Birmingham are playing every week from a good organisation,” he said.
“They don’t get a lot of goals against them and you have to have a solidness about you, that’s your base and everything else comes from there.
“We are working on that and our organisation was very good today.”
The next stop for Rangers in their quest for such solidity is Saturday’s trip to relegation-haunted MK Dons.
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