Josh Clarke and Romaine Sawyers scored as Brentford won the west London derby at Loftus Road.
The Bees deservedly went ahead four minutes before half-time with a slick move that ended with Josh McEachran feeding Clarke, who wrong-footed QPR skipper Nedum Onuoha before slipping the ball home.
Rangers rallied with periods of pressure in the second half, but their final ball was sorely lacking.
And Sawyers punished them 16 minutes from time with his first Brentford goal, producing a perfect side-footed finish from just inside the box after being set up by Maxime Colin.
Brentford’s celebrations were overshadowed late on when Lewis Macleod was stretchered off with a suspected knee injury, while Rangers were left reflecting on another disappointing derby display, following the home defeat to Fulham last season.
Dean Smith’s side were on top for large spells of the first half and had the best of the chances, with QPR keeper Alex Smithies denying Sawyers, who had been played in on goal by a delightful lofted pass from McEachran.
Nico Yennaris and Scott Hogan also saw sights of goal before Clarke gave the visitors the lead, collecting McEachran’s pass and shifting the ball onto his left before slotting it in.
Rangers had more hunger about them in the second half but struggled to muster clear opportunities, often over-hitting crosses, and Brentford remained a threat on the break, sealing the points on 74 minutes.
Rangers failed to clear their lines and Colin teed up Sawyers, who roared with delight at breaking his Brentford duck after the ball beat Smithies.
QPR did almost pull one back, Idrissa Sylla’s header cleared off the line by the excellent John Egan, while Bees substitute Konstantin Kerschbaumer went close to a third.
QPR: Smithies; Perch, Onuoha, Caulker, Robinson (Wszolek 63); Borysiuk (Gladwin 81), Luongo; Cousins, Chery, Washington (Polter 69); Sylla.
Subs not used: Ingram, Hamalainen, Hall, Henry.
Brentford: Bentley, Colin, Dean, Egan, Bjelland; Woods, Yennaris; Clarke (Kerschbaumer 90), McEachran (Macleod 71 (Kaikai 86)), Sawyers; Hogan.
Subs not used: Bonham, Barbet, Onariase, Hofmann.
This post was last modified on 02/11/2016
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Agreed. No fighting spirit, no quality going forward.
No partnerships in that team. I honestly think this is the least exciting qpr team in a long time.
We rode our luck the seasons before when we went up. Adel in one season under a brilliant warnock and hill, derry, kenny, faurlin squad. Actually theres a point
Derry hill grit fight and championship experiance
Kenny championship proven and a leader
Faurlin quality player at that level
Adel the goals and magic you need to get up.
The most recent promotion, we did well to get play offs. Great win against wigan. Lucky against derby.
But look at that season, charlies goals got us there. And what happend when charlie got injured for a couple months, Harry brang in ravel who scored important goals , assists and filled the gap.
Fact is any thought of promotion needs to be forgotton. We have gone up with far beter players and squads in the past and two beter manager and bk room staff.
Since les has come in its been woeful.
Say now and till i die. That season palace got pardew westbrom got pulis, sunderland get big sam or dick advocat. We got Chris Ramsey , sir les pal who was youth manager at best.
Tony time you start to think about what you are doing here cause you allready dropped a ball not giving job back to.warnock, you instead went with a cheap option which was a yes man and again another ex chelsea man. Buron Tony , Burton ..... are we really saying we are now a steping stone for managers.
Given up ranger says something thats so true.
Next generation of fans arent going to be there.
I moved out of london 6 years ago and still travel back and take my boys to watch qpr. Luckily they are blue n white hoops like me and my old man.
But the local kids growing up have the likes of chelsea , fulham, brentford on there doorstep. Qpr ... no passion , no.quality, no idea.
Tony get rid if les and JFH. Get pearson whilst you can. January start playing sandro get back Jet , drop nedem get rid of polter and washington.
Lets have a go
We all saw it with Ramsey and it’s turning out even more painful and woeful now. Seriously, what are the people a the top of the club on?
I’m so annoyed with myself for renewing my season ticket and dragging my kids down to see that utter dross. There’s no team, it’s so clear, individual players who have no confidence in the manager. We have no captain, we have no leader on the pitch, this is basic stuff. So we get rolled over time and again by teams, many with less talent than us. But they are footballing teams - not even sure what we are anymore apart from a shower of bad stuff.
I’m actually getting angry at every game and can’t even laugh about it now. The club is haemorrhaging support and atmosphere, we won’t have a new generation of supporters and don’t deserve them - if this continues much longer there won’t be much of a club left. Two years of pathetic uninspiring amateurish dross and counting.
There’s been so many bad decisions over recent years - the people behind these need to be giver their marching orders now - enough is enough.
Can you please appoint a proven football managment team to run our club please!
Woeful indeed.
Not sure where QPR go to from here. A team full of players from lower leagues who were brought in to prove a point, a manager who doesn't instil belief, a chairman who once acted like a kid in a sweet shop now looking like he has over indulged in gummy bears.