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<\/p>\nQPR ended a dismal run of four-successive Championship defeats by claiming a 3-1 comeback victory over Leicester at the King Power Stadium to deepen the Foxes’ relegation worries.<\/p>\n
Jordan James put the hosts ahead with a super long-range strike, but Harvey Vale levelled before the break.<\/p>\n
While a Ben Nelson own goal and Ronnie Edwards header sealed just a second win in eight matches to ease Rangers’ own concerns of being dragged into a relegation scrap.<\/p>\n
The hosts found themselves back in the bottom three after Oxford’s draw with Charlton in their lunchtime kick-off and started with intent, Divine Mukasa heading Luke Thomas’ whipped cross just past the left-hand post inside 30 seconds.<\/p>\n
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Stephy Mavididi burst past Amadou Mbengue on the left touchline and drove into the box. He then curled a shot past the far post before City hit the front in the 14th minute as QPR’s soft centre was exposed again.<\/p>\n
Two simple passes were enough to unlock the visitors’ midfield and James was allowed to run unchallenged from near the halfway line before bending a 25-yard shot past goalkeeper Joe Walsh into the bottom-right corner.<\/p>\n
The Foxes went close to doubling their lead on the half-hour. Thomas’ pull-back across the six-yard box narrowly evaded a stretching Jordan Ayew and when the ball broke to Hamza Choudhury, the Foxes skipper sliced wide.<\/p>\n
The Hoops started to exert pressure of their own leading up to half-time, sending in a series of dangerous crosses and corners without testing Foxes goalkeeper Jakub Stolarczyk.<\/p>\n
Rangers had gone four matches without scoring, but levelled two minutes before the break with their first attempt on target.<\/p>\n
Vale latched on to Edwards’ long ball from deep, shrugged off centre-back Nelson and tapped the ball past the advancing Stolarczyk before tapping into an empty net.<\/p>\n
Nelson’s afternoon did not improve five minutes into the second half as he stretched to intercept Vale’s ball into the six-yard box but diverted it past Stolarczyk at his near post.<\/p>\n
Leicester almost responded within minutes as Walsh touched Abdul Fatawu’s dinked cross on to the crossbar, but the away side remained a big threat, particularly on the break.<\/p>\n
Stolarczyk was at full stretch to push away Paul Smyth’s curling shot, but from the resulting corner, Edwards found himself free in a crowded goalmouth to head in Vale’s inswinging set-piece and make it 3-1 in the 58th minute.<\/p>\n
Leicester boss Gary Rowett responded with an attacking triple change on the hour, bringing on Patson Daka, Bobby De Cordova-Reid and Harry Winks.<\/p>\n
Rs goalkeeper Walsh had to palm away James’ dipping long-range effort, while home penalty appeals were waved away by referee Dean Whitestone when Jimmy Dunne barged Daka off the ball.<\/p>\n
But Rangers saw out the match in relative comfort against increasingly desperate and disjointed opponents to climb to 16th.<\/p>\n
For Leicester, a fifth home defeat from their past six – allied to wins for relegation rivals West Brom and Blackburn – leaves them second-bottom of the table and two points from safety.<\/p>\n
The managers<\/p>\n
Leicester’s Gary Rowett:<\/p>\n
“It was like Christmas Day. You give three gifts away and you can just open whichever one you want because we’ve given them three, very, very soft goals.<\/p>\n
“I thought we started the game quite brightly, some good movements and some good moments to try and get into good positions.<\/p>\n
“We scored a good goal from JJ. It’s a lovely finish from the edge of the box, but I just felt as though we needed to do that little bit more.<\/p>\n
“We were a little slow and, at times, a little bit sloppy on the ball, but I think it was off the ball that was the most disappointing, to concede three goals in the way that we did.”<\/p>\n
QPR’s Julien Stephan:<\/p>\n
“It was a strong reaction from the players today after recent results.<\/p>\n
“They showed great character, strong personality and good quality as well, especially with the ball in the first half.<\/p>\n
“We continued to do that at the beginning of the second half and scored the second and third goals.<\/p>\n
“After that, the management of the game was perfect defensively, good organisation, clever, a good ability to protect the box and we didn’t concede.<\/p>\n
“So it’s a great win for us and I think the players deserve this win.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"QPR ended a dismal run of four-successive Championship defeats by claiming a 3-1 comeback victory over Leicester at…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":163648,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[9,24,63,122,124,123],"class_list":["post-163647","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\/163647","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=163647"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163647\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/163648"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=163647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=163647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=163647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}