Paulo Sousa claimed his first win as QPR boss on Tuesday as struggling Charlton were beaten 2-1.
Sousa seals first success
Paulo Sousa claimed his first win as QPR boss on Tuesday as struggling Charlton were beaten 2-1.
A brace from Dextor Blackstock helped Rangers to victory and keeps the Loftus Road club in the play-off picture.
Charlton, meanwhile, continue to languish in the relegation zone and have now gone nine games without a win.
Sousa, the sixth man in charge of Rangers in little over a year, received warm applause when he was introduced before kick-off, although Loftus Road's lowest league crowd of the season turned out to greet their new boss.
The ex-Portugal playmaker endured a chastening 3-0 defeat in his opening match in charge at Watford on Saturday, but he was punching the air in delight after 17 minutes of his first home game when Damiano Tommasi ambled down the left wing and crossed for Blackstock to slot past Nicky Weaver.
Charlton caretaker boss Phil Parkinson, at the helm following Saturday's departure of Alan Pardew, handed a debut to veteran Northern Ireland winger Keith Gillespie following his loan move from Sheffield United.
Gillespie and teenage Sunderland loanee Martyn Waghorn were at least lively additions to the side, and the latter got their first sight of goal with an angled drive which flew into the side-netting.
Hesitated
Gillespie then sent in a low shot which Radek Cerny comfortably dealt with, before Charlton drew level on the half-hour.
Therry Racon played the ball out to Hamuer Bouazza on the left, and although the winger's initial touch let him down he recovered to ping in a low cross.
Cerny and the Rangers rearguard hesitated to allow Racon, on his return to the side following a broken metatarsal, to sidefoot the equaliser into an empty net.
Waghorn was denied a goal shortly after the break when he latched onto Bouazza's cut-back only for Damien Delaney to whip the ball off his foot with a last-ditch challenge.
Linvoy Primus hit the roof of the net with a volley while, for Rangers, Blackstock headed wide and Patrick Agyemang blazed over.
Charlton captain Mark Hudson should have hit the target but his header from Gillespie's cross flew wide.
And moments later Blackstock stole the points when he headed Hogan Ephraim's deep cross past Weaver.
