{"id":339029,"date":"2026-09-05T21:36:51","date_gmt":"2026-09-05T21:36:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/339029\/"},"modified":"2026-09-05T21:36:51","modified_gmt":"2026-09-05T21:36:51","slug":"qpr-0-1-middlesbrough-will-lankshear-goal-enough-for-boro-to-end-hoops-unbeaten-start","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/339029\/","title":{"rendered":"QPR 0-1 Middlesbrough: Will Lankshear goal enough for Boro to end Hoops&#8217; unbeaten start"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Lankshear&#8217;s fifth goal in the Championship \u2013 making him the division&#8217;s top scorer \u2013 came from an excellent low cross from right-back Callum Brittain that took out the defence and goalkeeper allowing the 21-year-old to score at the back post.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The striker could have had a second just before the interval but could not beat goalkeeper Charles.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">QPR&#8217;s hopes were not helped by losing two key attacking players to injury before half-time as first Ilias Chair and then Richard Kone had to go off.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">But one of their replacements, Rumarn Burrell, almost brought the Hoops level only to be denied by a big save from Radek Vitek.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Goalscorer Lankshear was withdrawn as Boro tried to regain control and substitute Conway had a great opportunity to make the points safe, but Charles saved the one-on-one opportunity with his leg.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">QPR pushed their opponents back and thought they had levelled only for Vale&#8217;s effort to come back off the angle of post and bar as Boro defended for their lives.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In each of their last six away games in the Championship, the Teessiders had scored first and failed to win but they held on for a significance victory despite some late nerves. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lankshear&#8217;s fifth goal in the Championship \u2013 making him the division&#8217;s top scorer \u2013 came from an excellent&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":339030,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[9,24,63,122,124,123],"class_list":["post-339029","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\/339029","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=339029"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339029\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/339030"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=339029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=339029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=339029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}