In-form striker Rumarn Burrell scored twice as QPR beat West Brom 3-1 to condemn the Baggies to a sixth consecutive away defeat in the Championship.

A rare goal by Jonathan Varane put Rangers ahead near the end of the first half and Burrell netted on 59 minutes.

Aune Heggebo pulled a goal back for Albion but Burrell scored again late on - his eighth goal in 10 matches - to seal a deserved win for Rangers.

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Neither side created a clear-cut chance before Rangers took the lead in the fourth minute of first-half stoppage time. Nicolas Madsen delivered an excellent cross from the right flank and Varane headed into the bottom corner of the net from close range.

Rangers keeper Paul Nardi then produced a fine save to keep out George Campbell's header.

The first half ended on a worrying note for the hosts when key playmaker Ilias Chair, who has been plagued by injury problems and recently returned to action, limped off.

Albion made a determined start to the second half and Heggebo missed a chance to equalise when he headed onto the roof of the net.

But Rangers remained a threat and, shortly after the game was halted for a few minutes because of a medical emergency in the crowd - a fan appeared to be OK when subsequently led away by medics - Burrell made it 2-0.

His strike partner Richard Kone caught Alex Mowatt in possession and Burrell emphatically capitalised by firing home from near the edge of the six-yard box.

Nardi then produced a crucial double save, denying Campbell and then superbly stopping Callum Styles' follow-up.

And Burrell missed a chance to make it three when he beat keeper Joe Wildsmith to the ball only to shoot over with the goal gaping.

Had that gone in, Rangers would probably have been able to see the game out even more comfortably.

Instead they saw their lead halved by Heggebo's 76th-minute goal - the Norwegian's sixth in his past five games. Styles served up a cross from the left and Heggebo climbed above Jimmy Dunne to head into the far corner.

But Burrell struck again on 87 minutes to seal the victory for Julien Stephan's side.

Kone was again involved, getting the better of Campbell on the left and forcing a save from Wildsmith, whose parry fell straight to Burrell who tapped in.

The managers

QPR's Marti Cifuentes:

"To be honest I was impressed with Richard Kone today. Of course Rumarn scored two - fantastic - but we need to see what all the players did around him.

"I have to say that Richard, today, it was a fantastic performance.

"Two points behind sixth position. It's a crazy league - you win two games and you are high in the table, lose two games and you are near the bottom.

"The ambition is always to improve, always to build something strong collectively, and I hope that the fans feel proud of what they see on the pitch.

"We are in December and we haven't done 50 per cent of the season. Let's see in March exactly what the ambition is.

"But the ambition is always to prepare well for the next game and win the next one."

West Brom's Ryan Mason:

"Poor. Far too passive in the first half and in the second half we gifted them two goals.

"It's not something you can do at this or any level. First half, the energy and intensity wasn't there. We didn't show ourselves.

"In the second half we did, and there was more energy and we were braver, we were the better team bar two individual errors, which is tough to take.

"It happens in football. People make mistakes. And it's always the coach's responsibility, I know that.

"The frustrating thing is we got ourselves back into the game and were playing in their half, were a lot more dominant, and to have the situation that we had with the third goal makes it impossible to get anything from the game.

"The form away from home is certainly something that we're chasing to try and help the lads, because at the moment it's not working.

"The formula isn't there, I need to change something. We've tried different systems and gameplans away from home. At the moment we're not quite there.

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