QPR beaten by last-gasp Coventry goal
A Coventry winner in the final seconds condemned QPR to defeat.
In the fifth minute of stoppage time, Bobby Thomas rose to head in Jack Rudoni’s right-wing corner – after successive Rangers corners shortly beforehand had come to nothing.
Rangers keeper Paul Nardi produced a superb double save in the first half, diving to his right to stop Matt Grimes’ low shot and then keeping out Ellis Simms’ follow-up.
In the second half, Kenneth Paal set up a great chance for R’s striker Michael Frey.
Ilias Chair collected Paal’s pass and cleverly back-heeled the ball back to the Dutchman, sending him away down the left. Paal then found Frey, whose first-time strike was saved by keeper Oliver Dovin.
Chair also had an effort saved by Dovin and created a chance for Jack Colback, who fired over.
Coventry’s Tatsuhiro Sakamoto found the net late on but the goal was disallowed because Brandon Thomas-Asante was offside.
Both teams pushed for a winner in the final stages and Luis Binks blocked Jimmy Dunne’s seemingly goal-bound header from Chair’s diagonal ball, before Thomas broke the deadlock right at the end.
QPR: Nardi; Dunne, Cook, Edwards, Paal; Colback (Varane 60), Field; Smyth (Yang 71), Chair, Saito (Morgan 81); Frey (Lloyd 60).
Subs not used: Walsh, Fox, Ashby, Morrison, Madsen.
