QPR manager Neil Critchley has called on his players to find an identity going forward after falling to a 3-0 defeat against Luton Town at Loftus Road. 

Carlton Morris scored twice and Alfie Doughty found the back of the net to hand Critchley his first defeat since taking charge of the Rs.

The result leaves QPR in 11th, one point outside the top six, while Luton are seventh. 

Critchley is still on the hunt for his first win as Rs manager after a 0-0 draw against Cardiff City in his opening game.

And he believes that his side needs to offer more in attack if they are going to return to winning ways. 

He said: “We can work on it in the training ground, but we must try and search for a clear identity in our attacking in the final third so we understand what we are going to do in certain positions, but it could be a personnel or formation issue.

“But we didn’t get the rub of the green. They defended very well, it didn’t drop for us in certain moments, we put a lot of crosses in, but it didn’t go for us, it was one of those sorts of nights – it’s really disappointing. After losing 3-0 you expect to come away feeling well beaten but I didn’t think we were.

“It's a difficult one, to sum up. Obviously, when you have lost 3-0 it is incredibly disappointing. You want to give the supporters something to cheer about but I wasn’t disappointed in the spirit shown.

“I thought we matched them for endeavour, Luton are a side that can push you back and gain a lot of territory which I don’t think they gained on us at any stage so it’s important we stay calm and, as ever, we look to try and improve on our performance.

“We have done a lot of things right but if you don’t do the basics in both penalty boxes you lose games of football in the Championship.”

QPR will welcome Sheffield United to Loftus Road on Monday with the Blades currently sitting in second in the league, level on points with leaders Burnley.

Critchley added: “The goals are an easy thing to say, between the penalty boxes we did a lot of things right but the goals we gave away, particularly the second, has had an obvious baring on the game.

“The first goal they come out and start with high energy, high intensity and then they scored but after that we played some good football, we got into some good areas, we had a lot of crosses which didn’t fall to us, or they weren’t good enough at times.

“At half time I felt we were well in the game and the second goal comes which is a poor one and I thought our response after that was decent, we had some moments.

“If you get back to 2-1 with the momentum in our favour it might be a different game, but the lad scored a fantastic goal so the scoreline I think is worse than the actual performance if I'm honest.”