Gary Johnson says he is pleased with City's start to the season as the campaign enters its first two-week international break.

This afternoon's 1-1 draw with Queens Park Rangers means the club have yet to win at home, but two away victories leave City in fourth place with eight points from four matches.

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Gary told Bristol City World: "All in all eight points in four games is a good return.

"If we were winning our two home games and drawing our two away games then we would all be really pleased but it's been the other way round.

"Unfortunately, we've drawn two home games but there have been parts of both those games that I have been really pleased with."

City were denied three points by a late Radek Cerny save from a bullet Dele Adebola header as ten-man QPR stubbornly held out after the second-half dismissal of Argentine Emmanuel Ledesma.

Asked if he felt it was a good point earned, Gary added: "When a team goes down to ten men, no. But when you are playing ten men they will sit nine behind the ball and keep one up front.

"They proved difficult to break down and let us play in the first two thirds of the field and made sure they defended as best they could. Dele did get the header in but it was a great save by the keeper.

"They decided they didn't want to go out and win the game and it was up to us to try and win it. In doing that we had lots of play on the edge and inside the box and when we did get through their keeper made good saves.

"It wasn't a case of us missing chances we just weren't creating enough chances.

"People may wonder why we didn't bring Steve Brooker on but we felt it we needed to open the game out a bit and bringing Ivan Sproule on created more opportunities - two or three times he got in and he was very unlucky.

"I thought it was a good football match actually. I thought they looked a good team, and we looked a good team."

The game turned on the second-half dismissal of Ledesma for a second yellow card, the latter earned for a late tackle on Jamie McAllister, who had been stretchered off with an ankle injury at Crewe just four days previously.

The duo had already clashed in the first half after the Argentine was booked for throwing the ball away. The opposition bench claimed that City left-back McAllister had let the ball go deliberately in a bid to get the player cautioned.

Gary commented: "I thought they were moaning a bit. Macca let the ball go but the lad showed a sign of aggression. Whether Macca catches the ball or not doesn't really matter.

"As far as the tackle was concerned it was on the other side of the pitch so I couldn't see it properly but once he got called over we knew the lad was in trouble. It was a tackle that caused Macca a problem because he doesn't come off easily. It was the same ankle that took a knock at Crewe but he has two weeks to recover."

Meanwhile, the City boss confirmed the club are on the verge of completing the signing of John Akinde from Ebbsfleet United.

And with the transfer window closing on Monday, he laughed off speculation linking him with a move for Crystal Palace striker James Scowcroft and reports Lee Trundle may be leaving the club to join Swansea City.