For all Middlesbrough’s dominance and quality on the ball, QPR will have felt slightly aggrieved as to how they found themselves 2-0 down.<\/p>\n
Both Strelec’s opener and Browne’s headed goal came with more than a hint of fortune.<\/p>\n
Morgan Whittaker’s shot deflected in off Strelec’s elbow to give the visitors the lead, while the second goal came from a corner that replays showed should have been given as a goal kick after clearly going out of play off Jeremy Sarmiento rather than the challenge of Ronnie Edwards.<\/p>\n
But from their overall play, Boro were well worthy of the lead and there was nothing controversial about the third – which was a thing of beauty.<\/p>\n
Picking up a pass from Conway, Middlesbrough captain Hackney took a touch before bending brilliantly around the dive of Joe Walsh and in off the far post.<\/p>\n
QPR substitute Tylon Smith’s clumsy challenge sent Conway to the deck, with the Scotland international squeezing the spot kick just below the dive of Walsh, with the Rs keeper getting a hand to it.<\/p>\n
Boro host Charlton Athletic and Bristol City next before a visit to Blackburn, followed by a potentially huge match in the promotion race against Millwall at the Riverside on Friday, 3 April.<\/p>\n
Julien Stephan’s QPR side have now lost four of their past five games but have a comfortable 12-point cushion to the drop zone.<\/p>\n
With a 10-point gap between them and the play-off places, Stephan will be keen to ensure their season does not fizzle out with little to play for.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"For all Middlesbrough’s dominance and quality on the ball, QPR will have felt slightly aggrieved as to how…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":157174,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[9,24,63,122,124,123],"class_list":["post-157173","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\/157173","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=157173"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157173\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/157174"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=157173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=157173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=157173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}