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Queens Park Rangers vs Luton Town. Sky Bet Championship.

8:00pm, Monday 6th January 2025.

Loftus Road StadiumAttendance14,025.

Luton Town 1

M McGuinness (47th minute)

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QPR 2-1 Luton: Pressure piles on boss Rob Edwards as Hatters beaten again

Report and free match highlights from the Sky Bet Championship match between Queens Park Rangers and Luton Town at MATRADE Loftus Road on Monday night; Wicked deflection off Morgan Fox seals win for QPR over Rob Edwards' struggling Hatters

Simeon Gholam

EFL Editor @simgholam

Monday 6 January 2025 23:27, UK

QPR condemned Luton to a 10th defeat in a row away from home as they beat them 2-1.

Michael Frey opened the scoring for QPR, albeit via a goal that should have been ruled out for handball, before Mark McGuinness levelled for the Hatters.

Morgan Fox then sealed the win in fortuitous circumstances in the second half, as a long-range Ilias Chair drive flew in off his heel.

A fourth defeat on the bounce leaves Luton in 20th in the table, just two points above the relegation zone. Pressure continues to pile on Rob Edwards.

Wicked deflection steers QPR past beleaguered Luton

It was an action-packed first half. Jimmy Dunne saw his header brilliantly tipped onto the bar by Thomas Kaminski before somehow missing a follow-up sitter, blazing over the Luton goal.

QPR then did take the lead as Frey got onto the end of a cross at the far post, controlling and finishing from a narrow angle. There were questions that he handballed bringing it down, but it wasn't spotted by the officials.

Luton then found a leveller on the stroke of half-time, as McGuinness rose highest to head in a corner.

QPR retook the lead in the most fortunate of circumstances as Ilias Chair's shot from 25 yards following a free-kick took a wicked deflection off the heel of Fox, leaving Kaminski stranded on the wrong side of his goal as it rolled in the other. It moves Marti Cifuentes' side up to 13th in the table.

The managers

QPR's Marti Cifuentes:

"I'm really happy. It's a very important step forward for us as a team to win these kinds of games. We started really well and we could have scored three goals in the first 30 minutes.

"Then we went in at half-time at 1-1. So big credit to the guys because mentally to win this game was important.

"We knew they are brilliant at set-pieces and today would be a big challenge. They scored from it then in the first 15 minutes of the second half they were the better team.

"That's why I'm very happy about the impact of the bench today. Everyone in the squad contributed to an amazing level."

Luton's Rob Edwards:

"Probably," Edwards said when asked whether he thought QPR's opener would be ruled out via VAR. "But we're not in the Premier League. That's the situation. Things have gone against us really. The footballing gods aren't on our side at the moment.

"In the second half we were excellent. We've got to score when we're on top.

"The goal was frustrating, because when we conceded we had the momentum. It was a fortuitous goal but that's how it's going for us.

"The lads are giving us everything and you can see that. It feels like we're on the ropes and we keep getting hit. And you wonder how long the lads can keep going.

"The results aren't good enough. The performances are there, but it's a results business. I'm here and I want to work and turn this around. That's our aim. We believe in this group and we continue to fight.

"There's a lot of fight in there. There was disappointment, anger and frustration in the dressing room. It's hurting them as well. But it's only us that can do something about it."