Millwall boosted their Championship promotion hopes with a routine 2-0 victory over London rivals Queens Park Rangers at The Den.<\/p>\n
First-half goals from\u00a0Derek Mazou-Sacko and Camiel Neghli helped Alex Neil’s side climb to second place above Ipswich Town, who play the first of their two games in hand against\u00a0Middlesbrough on Sunday.<\/p>\n
Millwall were quick out of the blocks and hit the front after just three minutes, with Mazou-Sacko beating Joe Walsh from 20 yards after Femi Azeez’s initial cross was only half-cleared.<\/p>\n
It was 2-0 in the 17th minute after QPR failed to deal with another cross, and Neghli stepped inside a challenge before curling into the far corner.<\/p>\n
The hosts went close to increasing their advantage, with Walsh making smart saves to deny Josh Coburn in both halves.<\/p>\n
Nevertheless, the two-goal margin was more than enough to secure victory for Millwall, whose play-off spot will be secured if eighth-placed Wrexham fail to beat Stoke City later on Saturday.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, Derby County kept their own play-off hopes alive with a narrow 1-0 win over relegation-threatened Oxford United, who remain 22nd in the table.<\/p>\n
Jaydon Banel scored the only goal at Pride Park, where the Rams moved within two points of sixth-placed Hull City.<\/p>\n
Portsmouth moved seven points clear of the bottom three\u00a0as they made it three straight victories with a 1-0 win over Leicester City at Fratton Park.<\/p>\n
Ibane Bowat was the matchwinner against the 23rd-placed Foxes, who remain five points from safety having played a game more than West Bromwich Albion in 21st.<\/p>\n
Leicester are now on the brink of a second relegation in as many seasons, and depending on results elsewhere, their drop could be confirmed as early as Tuesday.<\/p>\n
Data Debrief: The Lions roar once more<\/p>\n
Millwall’s second win in six Championship games saw them complete a league double over QPR for the first time since the 1988-89 season.<\/p>\n
The Hoops have now lost the last three league meetings between the sides, last enduring a longer run between 1937 and 1953 (four).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Millwall boosted their Championship promotion hopes with a routine 2-0 victory over London rivals Queens Park Rangers at…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":201753,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[9,24,63,122,124,123],"class_list":{"0":"post-201752","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\/201752","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=201752"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201752\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/201753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=201752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=201752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=201752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}