The on-loan Manchester United striker has been left out of the side recently and was not included the 18-man squad that drew 1-1 with Everton at Loftus Road.

Macheda, who was charged earlier this week for a previous comment made on the social network website, tweeted after the match: "Totally p****d off...this is not what i deserve! **** all!!!!!"

When told of the post, Hughes said: "What is he talking about? Perhaps he has broken a watch or dropped his phone.

"Who knows what he has done. You're assuming it is about the game and not being involved.

"Until I speak to him I can't really comment, can I?"

Asked what action would be taken if it is about today's selection, the Welshman retorted: "Well, when I know it is I will come back and talk about it, but I can't talk about it because that is the first I've heard about it."

He added: "Why we are talking about a player who was not in the squad?

"I would rather talk about the guys who worked their b******s off today, to be perfectly honest, rather than somebody that wasn't even in the squad, don't you think?"

The tweet was subsequently deleted and Hughes was keen to focus attention on QPR's battling draw at Loftus Road.

The Hoops have now won just two of their 14 Barclays Premier League matches at Loftus Road and they had to come from behind today after Royston Drenthe broke the deadlock from long range.

Bobby Zamora bundled home a Akos Buzsaky free-kick five minutes later to earn a point and Hughes thinks the performance bodes well for the run-in.

"I think we made it tough for them," he said. "We didn't allow them to play.

"I thought in terms of which team affected the game most, I think it was certainly the way we played.

"We were excellent in terms of closing people down and obviously trying to effect the game in a positive manner going the other way.

"It is obviously a difficult game against Everton and you know you're going to come under pressure in terms of their set play work.

"But apart from a few balls into the box and a couple of errors in poor areas, that was the only threat really.

"I am delighted with what we have produced. Ideally we would have preferred three points out of the game but, in terms of the manner of the performance, I am pleased with what we produced.

"It was important today we showed that we had a platform and kept 11 on the pitch and you saw a marked difference in the manner of our performance, which I knew we would.

"It has been difficult in recent weeks because you can't really effect the game when you have 10 men on the pitch whereas today I thought everybody put a shift in and was really up to the task.

"We need more than that from now until the end of the season. We deserved more because I thought we were the better team, but we will take a point because it is a start we can build on."

Everton counterpart David Moyes thought a draw was a decent result, especially considering the poor state of the Loftus Road pitch.

"It was a hard-fought point," he said. "It was a difficult game with QPR fighting for their lives.

"We found it tough and it will be tough for anybody here on that pitch because it does not make for great passing.

"It will be worse for QPR who have to play all their home games on it.

"We got a point and I probably don't think we had enough chances to win it. Saying that, I don't think they had enough chances either.

"They put us under a bit more pressure in the second half and I thought the first half we played quite well at times.

"We just gave away too many free-kicks in the first half, which proved costly."