{"id":184635,"date":"2026-04-03T17:04:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-03T17:04:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/184635\/"},"modified":"2026-04-03T17:04:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-03T17:04:08","slug":"queens-park-rangers-climb-to-10th-as-smyth-delivers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/184635\/","title":{"rendered":"Queens Park Rangers climb to 10th as Smyth delivers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Queens Park Rangers beat <a href=\"https:\/\/onefootball.com\/en\/team\/watford-580\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Watford<\/a> 2-1 at Loftus Road, climbing from 12th to 10th in the Championship.<\/p>\n<p>Rayan Kolli opened the scoring in the 26th minute, glancing in from close range after Paul Smyth&#8217;s cushioned header.<\/p>\n<p>Egil Selvik kept the visitors in contention with sharp stops from Kolli before the break and again after the restart.<\/p>\n<p>Smyth doubled the lead with a calm finish from the centre of the box (63.). Half time substitute Daniel Bennie soon drew another low save as the hosts chased a third.<\/p>\n<p>Imran Louza curled a free kick into the top left to cut the deficit (85.), setting up a nervy finale.<\/p>\n<p>Six minutes were added. <a href=\"https:\/\/onefootball.com\/en\/team\/watford-580\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The Hornets<\/a> forced a late corner, but Joe Walsh and his back line stood firm to see the game out.<\/p>\n<p>Queens Park Rangers registered eight shots on target from 15 attempts. <a href=\"https:\/\/onefootball.com\/en\/team\/watford-580\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The Hornets<\/a> recorded three efforts on target from seven attempts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Queens Park Rangers beat Watford 2-1 at Loftus Road, climbing from 12th to 10th in the Championship. Rayan&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":184636,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[9,24,63,122,124,123],"class_list":{"0":"post-184635","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-queens","8":"tag-new-york","9":"tag-new-york-city","10":"tag-nyc","11":"tag-queens","12":"tag-queens-headlines","13":"tag-queens-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184635","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=184635"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184635\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/184636"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}