Harry Redknapp demands Queens Park Rangers to "work" hard

Queens Park Rangers manager Harry Redknapp has admitted that only hard work will see his side avoid relegation from the Premier League this season.

Redknapp has demanded that even the skilful players in his side must graft in order for QPR to keep picking up points.

"People think the best teams just play football," Sky Sports News quotes Redknapp as saying. "It's a fallacy. "The best team in the world is Barcelona and they are the hardest-working team. They work harder than anyone else without the ball and they work harder than anyone else with it.

"We've got to work hard too. It's not a case of picking scrappers. Whoever I pick, whether they think they're skilful players or not, they've all got to work.

"We can get out of it. We're playing well. If we were in bad form I'd be more worried. That gives us a chance. With eight games to go, that's positive for us. There are four or five wins for us in the games left."

QPR travel to Craven Cottage on Monday night to face Fulham.