The Robins have not lost since Roy Hodgson took interim charge, having won both their first two matches after the former England boss was given the role.<\/p>\n
Rangers, meanwhile, are unbeaten in five matches and were able to welcome back Rumarn Burrell, who came on as a substitute after more than three months on the sidelines.<\/p>\n
City looked more threatening in the first half and their best chance fell to Scott Twine, who was unable to connect properly with a half-volley.<\/p>\n
Goalkeeper Joe Walsh gathered that strike, kept out a shot from Mark Sykes and also parried a deflected effort from Emil Riis before reacting quickly to stop the loose ball from being turned home.<\/p>\n
At the other end, Kieran Morgan dragged a shot wide, Richard Kone headed straight at City\u2019s on-loan Manchester United keeper Radek Vitek and Noah Eile almost diverted Paul Smyth\u2019s cross into his own net.<\/p>\n
After the interval, Walsh pushed a shot from Twine away for a corner and Smyth sliced a shot wide of the near post following good work on the wing by Rayan Kolli.<\/p>\n
With his team struggling to create clear-cut chances, QPR head coach Julien Stephan changed his forward line midway through the second half, sending on Burrell and Daniel Bennie in place of Kone and Kolli.<\/p>\n
Burrell made a huge impact following his move from Burton last summer and scored 10 goals before suffering a hamstring tear in January.<\/p>\n
The loss of their top scorer was a major blow for Rangers, who were chasing a play-off place at the time. He was given a rousing reception by the home fans when he came on, but was unable to make an immediate impact as the visitors defended well.<\/p>\n
Bristol City have kept back-to-back clean sheets and look much more solid and well-organised under Hodgson, who inherited a team that had won just one of their previous nine matches prior to the sacking of manager Gerhard Struber.<\/p>\n
Both teams worked hard but there were no chances of note in the closing stages.<\/p>\n
The general lack of quality was summed up in stoppage time when Tomi Horvat had an opportunity to put Delano Burgzorg through but over-hit his pass, and Walsh was able to collect.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Robins have not lost since Roy Hodgson took interim charge, having won both their first two matches…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":163258,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[128,130,129],"class_list":["post-163257","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-reading","tag-reading-city","tag-reading-city-headlines","tag-reading-city-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163257","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=163257"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163257\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/163258"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=163257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=163257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=163257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}