Sheffield United bounced back from their loss to Championship leaders Coventry City to beat QPR for a fifth win in eight games and leapfrog Rangers.<\/p>\n
Chris Wilder’s side lost momentum with Wednesday’s defeat to Coventry and they provided the perfect response to suggest they could still make a late play-off push.<\/p>\n
United were ruthless at MATRADE Loftus Road as Callum O’Hare and Tyrese Campbell scored from their first two efforts on target before Sydie Peck forced a save from QPR goalkeeper Joe Walsh in the dying minutes.<\/p>\n
Defeat ended a miserable week for Rangers, following Tuesday’s 5-0 mauling by Southampton, and Julien Stephan’s side have only won two of their last nine league games.<\/p>\n
United led after 13 minutes when Peck and Tahith Chong combined well down the right and Blades midfielder O’Hare squeezed his shot home at the far post from close range.<\/p>\n
O’Hare’s strike sees him join Patrick Bamford on nine as the Blades’ leading scorer and the visitors threatened to double their lead, but Japhet Tanganga missed with a shot before Campbell also went close.<\/p>\n
The second goal did come on 33 minutes when Peck set up Campbell and he lashed home a beautiful strike from outside the box for his sixth goal of the season.<\/p>\n
Adam Davies made only his fourth appearance of the season in place of Michael Cooper, who was ruled out with a knee injury, and the Wales goalkeeper kept out a header from Richard Kone from Rangers’ first effort on target.<\/p>\n
O’Hare might have had a second and his shot from Peck’s corner missed the target.<\/p>\n
Rangers thought they had pulled a goal back 17 minutes from time when Kone headed home Harry Vale’s corner, but it was disallowed for offside.<\/p>\n
Kone also sent a close-range header wide before Isaac Hayden missed with a late header.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sheffield United bounced back from their loss to Championship leaders Coventry City to beat QPR for a fifth…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":148583,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[9,24,63,122,124,123],"class_list":["post-148582","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-queens","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-queens","tag-queens-headlines","tag-queens-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148582","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=148582"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148582\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/148583"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=148582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=148582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=148582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}