Lindsay red card 'killed' Preston - Heckingbottom

Paul Heckingbottom was upset with the decision to red-card Liam Lindsay

Preston boss Paul Heckingbottom expressed his disappointment with the decision to send Liam Lindsay off during his team's 2-1 defeat by Queens Park Rangers on Saturday.

Lindsay was shown a red card for a second booking with seven minutes to go at Loftus Road and the scores level at 1-1.

Down to 10 men, North End then conceded an 89th-minute winner to the Hoops.

"It's not a sending-off. It's totally killed us because we've got all our attacking players on the pitch," Heckingbottom told BBC Radio Lancashire.

"We've then got some players out of position and that was a big, big problem for us."

Asked for his thoughts on the game as a whole, he replied: "The best way to sum it up is that we would have been celebrating a draw.

"QPR were the better team – helped by the officials all game, but they were the better team.

"It would have been a big point for us, but they deserved the win.

"QPR were very good and competed against us very well. But the referee helped them out massively. We didn't get any decisions."