JAAP Stam believes his Reading FC side dropped two Championship points after a dominant second-half display at Queens Park Rangers failed to produce a winning goal.

Royals were forced to settle for a share of the spoils from Saturday’s hoops derby at Loftus Road after Danny Williams cancelled out Pawel Wszolek’s early opener for Rangers.

Stam’s men looked the more likely side to snatch a victory after the break but John Swift, Roy Beerens, Garath McCleary, George Evans and Yann Kermorgant all wasted decent chances for the frustrated visitors.

Stam groaned: “We are disappointed, we should have won it. We defended well, worked hard, created chances, but we should have scored the second one.

“It’s frustrating. We created the chances, but it would have been nice to finish one of them off because we want to win games.

“We knew from the start it was going to be a hard game, because they’ve got a very strong, physical side and they play a lot of long balls up to their striker and look to attack from the second balls and create chances that way.

“So it wasn’t the easiest of games. They tried to make it difficult by pressing us high in the first half, but there was still a lot of space to play out from the back and we didn’t always do it well.”

Wszolek punished some sloppy midfield play from Royals by giving Rangers a 14th minute lead.

But Williams restored parity seven minutes later with a superb volley from McCleary’s cross.

Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink’s hosts went close to a second themselves through Sebastian Polter, Joel Lynch Ariel Borysiuk, but it was Royals who created the more clear-cut openings as they searched for an elusive winner.

“We conceded a goal we didn’t need to concede because we gave the ball away ourselves in the middle of the pitch,” rued Stam. “After that we had to come back which we did very quickly.

“We scored a great goal – the cross from Garath and the finish from Danny and we deserved that. After that we tried to go for the second one.

“We wanted to play our own game, creating chances from possession and at half-time we spoke about how we needed to switch the play quickly, and a couple of times we did it really well.

“We should have scored the second one because we want to win games.
“Every game we play, we play with the intention of winning, home or away. Sometimes it can be a bit risky, but we want to play our attacking football. We kept searching for the second one, but unfortunately it didn’t come.”

The results means Reading have lost just once in their last 11 outings, leaving them eighth in the Championship table.

Meanwhile, Stam’s former Netherlands team-mate Hasselbaink has led his side to only one win in eight matches and Rangers fans were quick to vent their frustration at the final whistle.

“We really tried to get the three points,” said the ex-Chelsea striker. “My boys gave everything and we were very positive in our substitutions, and on another day it might have worked.

“We had three strikers on to try to force something and we had an attacking midfielder [Tjaronn Chery] too.

“When you do that you are always going to suffer a little bit in midfield, but we wanted the win.

“It’s just unfortunate because we started ever so well and for the first 20 minutes we looked the better side and got a deserved goal.

“But we stopped doing what made us the better side and that is a pity.”

Reading return to the Madejski Stadium tomorrow night when they host Steve Bruce’s Aston Villa (8pm ko).