Six touches in the box, six goals - the epitome of clinical?

Six touches in the opposition area, six goals scored - have Queens Park Rangers 'completed' clinical finishing? "Boys were ruthless today," Rangers midfielder Harvey Vale posted on social media , external platform X after Saturday's 6-1 thumping of Portsmouth. Just how often does a team score as many goals as they have had touches in the box?

Nigh on never. "It was a clinical game," Rangers manager Julien Stephan, in a somewhat understated manner, told BBC Radio London. The stats made stunning reading - the R's registered just nine shots (to Pompey's 20) but eight of those were on target and six found the net.

No wonder the Pompey players looked rocked at the final whistle - they had 28 more touches in the area than QPR but it counted for nothing. Of QPR's six touches in the visitors' area, three were goals - Paul Smyth's cool one-on-one finish to make it 3-0, Rayan Kolli crashing a superb strike across the goalkeeper and Richard Kone's late penalty. Their other three strikes were from outside the box, and the same three scorers - Smyth whipping the opener into the top corner from 20 yards, Kolli finding the bottom corner from even further out and Kone drilling home the sixth from near the D.

"It was not our best offensive collective performance - we have had better games collectively," R's boss Stephan said. Not their best offensive performance? Watford, QPR's next visitors on Friday, 3 April after the international break, best watch out.