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Queens Park Rangers vs Blackburn Rovers. Sky Bet Championship.

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Queens Park Rangers 1

  • I Chair (83rd minute)

Blackburn Rovers 0

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    QPR 1-0 Blackburn Rovers: Ilias Chair seals late win for Rangers

    Report and highlights from the Sky Bet Championship clash between QPR and Blackburn Rovers at the Kiyan Prince Foundation Stadium as Ilias Chair scored late on to seal a victory for Rangers on Tuesday night.

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    Highlights of the Sky Bet Championship match between QPR and Blackburn.

    Ilias Chair's late strike gave QPR a 1-0 Sky Bet Championship victory at home to out-of-form Blackburn.

    In a game of few clear-cut chances, Chair broke the deadlock with a fine goal with seven minutes remaining.

    He collected Rob Dickie's clever pass and bent a shot beyond keeper Thomas Kaminski from near the edge of the penalty area.

    The result was a much-needed boost for Rangers following a 4-1 loss at west London neighbours Fulham on Saturday and a difficult recent spell in which they had won just two of their previous seven Championship matches.

    Blackburn, meanwhile, are now without a win in four matches - a run which has included three defeats.

    Yoann Barbet almost inadvertently opened the scoring with an own goal four minutes after half-time.

    Tayo Edun sent in a low cross from the left and Rangers defender Barbet, off-balance on the wet surface, turned the ball against his own post from near the edge of the six-yard box.

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    During a dull first half, QPR appealed in vain for a penalty after Albert Adomah's right-wing cross struck Daniel Ayala on the arm.

    Both teams struggled to create opportunities, with Rovers' Daniel Butterworth dragging an effort wide and Barbet blasting over at the other end.

    The second half was similarly uneventful until Barbet's near miss was followed by Rangers' veteran winger Adomah bringing the game to life.

    Adomah caused havoc down the Blackburn right during a 20-minute spell in which he set up Lyndon Dykes, whose shot was saved by Kaminski, before Jimmy Dunne missed a golden chance to open the scoring.

    Dykes headed Chair's left-wing free-kick back towards defender Dunne, who contrived to scoop the ball over the bar from a few yards out.

    As his team continued to seek a goal, Rangers manager Mark Warburton made an attacking change, bringing striker Charlie Austin on for midfielder Dom Ball and switching to two up front.

    And the hosts' persistence was eventually rewarded with Chair's fourth goal in as many matches.

    A clean sheet will be seen by Warburton as another major positive given that Rangers have looked defensively vulnerable this season.

    They coped well with Rovers' counter-attacks and their late search for an equaliser, with keeper Seny Dieng pushing away a late effort from Joe Rothwell.

    What the managers said...

    QPR's Mark Warburton: "If some club wants to come and pay £25m for him [Chair] then great. If you're going to sell in January it's to a [Premier League] team that's struggling and will spend to stay up or a team that's pushing for promotion and they'll spend to try and push on. So you only lose a player in January on your terms.

    "It was a great strike. He's got great technique. It's about getting that half a yard of space and maximising it, which he did very well. I thought we were dominant in the second half and that the goal was going to come."

    Blackburn's Tony Mowbray: "I genuinely sat there thinking we were going to win 1-0, and we've lost. We needed to score and we've been scoring in just about every game this season, so it's frustrating for us that we didn't score. We came really to frustrate and hope we could grab the points and in the end it wasn't to be.

    "We can grind results out away from home and I thought we could do that tonight. There was no need to come here and be too expansive and for it to be like a basketball game against a team that scores a lot of goals. The players worked extraordinarily hard. I sit here tonight pretty proud of how hard they worked and tried to deny a pretty good team. I'm not going to criticise them."

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