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Rangers were unable to continue their recent fine form, as Leicester City took all three points in front of a season's best crowd at Loftus Road.
In front on the live Sky Sports TV cameras, Rangers took the lead when Adel Taarabt finished superbly well when through on goal.
But goals either side of half time from Matty Fryatt put pay to ambitions Rangers had of moving up to second place in the Coca-Cola Championship before kick-off.
The Leicester striker headed home from close range just short of the break, before a mistake from a Radek Cerny goal kick gifted the Foxes hotshot with his second of the game.
MPU Hoops boss Magilton made just one change from the R's side that was victorious last weekend away to Derby County.
After returning from a virus and completing around half an hour as a substitute at Pride Park, Mikele Leigertwood slotted into the centre of midfield in place of the injured Gavin Mahon.
That meant with Cerny in goal, Peter Ramage, Damion Stewart, Kaspars Gorkss and Gary Borrowdale made up the R's backline.
In midfield, Leigertwood and Alejandro Faurlin supported wide men Akos Buzsaky and Taarabt.
Wayne Routledge partnered hotshot Jay Simpson in attack.
The R's - who prior to kick-off boasted the best home record in the Championship with 16 points gained from six matches in W12 - took to the field amidst a firework extravaganza, and it was they who went on the offensive from the off.
Typically, the R's first opportunity of the game was created on the back of a lovely passing move.
Ramage, Buzsaky and Simpson combined well before the latter shot for goal from an acute angle, but Foxes custodian Chris Weale dived to his right to comfortably hold the effort.
Play soon switched to the other end, and when Andy King drilled an effort on goal from 25-yards out, Cerny comfortably caught the ball down low with both hands.
The game was only in its early stages, though chances were aplenty. Only a last-ditch tackle could prevent Routledge finding the target from the edge of the area, after a fine pass from Buzsaky.
Moments later and the R's were again on the attack. Another free-flowing move - this time between Leigertwood, Faurlin and Taarabt - saw the Spurs man through on goal down the left, but Wayne Brown was aware of the danger to slide the ball away for a corner.
Leicester were far from spectators in this already pulsating encounter though, and after a Jack Hobbs header from deep played Martyn Waghorn through on goal, he could only shoot straight at Cerny when under pressure from the Rangers backline.
The visitors were soon on the offensive again, and only a superb intervention from Gorkss could stop Fryatt finding the target from a tight angle down the right.
The R's were now perhaps the better of the two sides in terms of territorial possession, and a Taarabt effort only marginally missed the target when the midfielder blasted at goal from fully 30-yards out.
Rangers goalkeeper Cerny was far from untested in the hosts' goal though, and he did well to single-handedly beat the ball away to safety after Fryatt again found space to drive an effort on target.
Soon after in this end-to-end encounter, Faurlin almost found the opening goal of the game when he fired in a free-kick on goal just short of the area, though Weale was on hand to tip the ball away for a corner.
The Foxes' reprieve was only short lived though, as moments later Taarabt fired the R's into a deserved lead in the 33rd minute.
After originally playing a through ball to Simpson, Taarabt's pass came off the back of a Leicester defender and fell to his feet from 12-yards out.
The Tottenham loanee made no mistake thereafter, coolly slotting the ball home into the bottom corner of the net to hand Rangers the opening goal of the game.
Taarabt, in truth, could have doubled the R's lead just seconds later, but his driven shot was just wide of Weale's left-hand post.
Rangers' joy at taking the lead was short lived though, as just four minutes after Taarabt's strike, the Foxes were level.
After Danny N'Guessan burst down the left, he played a delicious cross to Fryatt. The Leicester forward couldn't miss from three-yards out, as he headed the visitors level going into the interval.
Leicester had proved in the first half just why they sat in 5th place going into this encounter, and soon after the break the Foxes, in truth, started the stronger.
After a mix-up in the R's defence, the ball fell to full-back Robbie Neilson 12 yards from goal, but the Leicester defender could only blast wide of the target.
Moments later, Rangers set about getting a goal that would regain them the lead, and when Simpson touched the ball back to Buzsaky on the edge of the area, the Hungarian international saw his effort curl agonisingly wide of the Foxes goal.
Play then switched to the other end, and Leicester took a 64th minute lead - Fryatt bagging his second goal of the game.
Cerny's goal kick fell only as far as the Foxes frontman, and when through on goal, Fryatt was coolness personified to slot pass the advancing R's goalkeeper.
Rangers weren't too disheartened by the Foxes' second goal of the game though, and Buzsaky again only narrowly missed the target with another fizzing shot from distance.
Now trailing, R's gaffer Magilton acted to try and bring his side back into the match, bringing on Rowan Vine to replace Ramage.
And it was a move that was almost instantly rewarded. After Buzsaky played the ball into the box to Simpson, the Rangers striker dummied for Routledge.
Through on goal, Routledge seemed certain to find the target, before Foxes custodian Weale came rushing out of his goal to thwart him.
Leicester were unlucky not to add a third when Wayne Brown headed for goal from a Waghorn corner, but substitute Fitz Hall was on guard to head the ball off the line.
Buzsaky should have fired home an equaliser for the R's after Routledge centred from the right, but he could only blast high and wide of the target.
QPR: Cerny, Ramage (Vine 67), Stewart (Hall 55), Leigertwood, Routledge, Buzsaky, Gorkss, Faurlin, Simpson, Borrowdale, Taarabt (Agyemang 86).
Subs not used: Heaton, Alberti, Ainsworth, Parker.
Goals: Taarabt (33)
Leicester City: Weale, Neilson, Brown, Oakley, King, Fryatt (Gallagher 75), Berner, N'Guessan, Waghorn (McGivern 90), Wellens, Hobbs.
Subs not used: Logan, Morrison, Howard, Dyer, Kermorgant.
Goals: Fryatt (37 & 64)
Referee: Mr J Moss
Attendance: 17,082 QPR
Sporting Life - FRYATT AT THE DOUBLE FOR LEICESTER By Andy Sims, Press Association Sport
Matty Fryatt halted QPR's surge up the Coca-Cola Championship as fellow promotion hopefuls Leicester stole a march on the Londoners with a 2-1 victory at Loftus Road.
Adel Taarabt fired Rangers ahead just after the half-hour mark but, for once, the free-scoring hosts could not add to their tally and Fryatt's brace - the winner courtesy of a howler from home keeper Radek Cerny - secured City's third straight win and lifted them up to second, level on points with leaders Newcastle.
Rangers' reputation as the division's entertainers - they had scored four goals in each of their last three games - had clearly spread as England boss Fabio Capello joined fellow Italian Flavio Briatore in the directors' box.
Capello may have winced at some of the defending on show, but two in-form sides produced an end-to-end encounter in front of a season's best crowd of 17,082.
However, the majority went home disappointed after Rangers lost their unbeaten home record and blew the chance to go third.
The teams traded blows in the opening quarter of an hour, with Fryatt twice going close and Jay Simpson and Wayne Routledge threatening for Rangers.
Leicester thought they had taken the lead in the 16th minute when Martyn Waghorn slid in to convert Dany N'Guessan's cross, but the on-loan Sunderland frontman was flagged offside.
At the other end, a free-kick from £3.5million Argentinian Alejandro Faurlin was destined for the top corner until Chris Weale stuck out a palm.
Rangers went ahead in the 33rd minute when Taarabt burst forward, played a one-two with Simpson on the edge of the area and expertly swept his right-foot shot past Weale.
The on-loan Tottenham midfielder had another crack moments later, skipping past Andy King before firing just wide.
But it was Leicester who struck next, the lead lasting just five minutes before Rangers failed to deal with N'Guessan's cross and Fryatt's simple header ended his six-game goal drought.
Waghorn was inches away from putting City ahead after the break when he just missed another N'Guessan centre.
But they were gifted the lead in the 64th minute when Cerny attempted a short clearance which Fryatt read and duly dispatched back past the veteran Czech for his 10th goal of the season.
Weale bravely denied Routledge to protect the lead and Akos Buzsaky missed a gilt-edged chance to snatch a point when he blasted over from 10 yards with five minutes remaining. Sporting Life
LEICESTER OFFICIAL SITE
Two goals from Matty Fryatt, either sside of the break, gave Leicester City a tremendous win over a powerful QPR side at Loftus Road tonight for a second successive away win.
City are now level on 27 points with Newcastle at the top of the Championship table and they had to come from behind to get there in a frantic, all-action clash that had tension and excitement right to the last seconds.
City boss Nigel Pearson made two changes from the side that won at Reading. Back into the side came Bruno Berner and Dany N'Guessan for, respectively, Ryan McGivern and Paul Gallagher who were on the bench. Monday night's goal hero Martyn Waghorn kept his place up front.
And it was City who were first to show, a Berner pass sending Matty Fryatt in but he was turned back by sound defending. To underline the blistering pace of the action, moments later at the other end a shot on the turn by Gary Borrowdale found the side netting before the see-saw swung again, a Fryatt driven cross just eluding Waghorn in the middle.
The home side then threatened, a Wayne Routledge run ending with a shot deflected to safety then Wayne Brown made a brilliant saving tackle when Adel Taarabt, on a super run, got all the way through into the area but again City were not sitting back.
A cut-back by Fryatt to N'Guessan was only just deflected away from the winger then City did have the ball in the net, from Waghorn's touch off a Fryatt cross from the left but it was off-side and Rangers then came on strong, Peter Ramage getting in on the right for a cut-back only just cleared, Alejandro Faurlin bringing a great top-corner save from Chris Weale from a free-kick and Taarabt twisting and turning but denied a clear shooting chance.
But he was not denied moments later as, in the 32nd minute, he pounced on the ball after it had broken off a tackle and steered the ball home from near the edge of the area.
The same player came close to doubling the lead moments later but sent the ball wide and soon City were back on terms.
Good work by N'Guessan on the left saw his cross headed home by Fryatt in the middle in the 36th minute to level this pulsating encounter, no more than the visitors deserved and both side strived for the advantage but that was how it stood at the interval.
The second half was no less frantic from the start, Waghorn being given just off-side in an early chance then an N'Guessan run and cross was only inches away from being converted by Waghorn in the middle, a Wellens cross then being headed wide by N'Guessan.
Oakley then broke from midfield and when he was checked in the area, the ball broke to Robbie Neilson whose shot was wide of the near post but Rangers replied when a Buzsaky shot flew very close to the target from distance.
But in the 63rd minute, City took the lead. A bad kick out by keeper Radek Cerny went straight to Fryatt and the City man ran in and made no mistake with a cool finish to set up a very tense finish to what had always been an exciting contest.
It was all a bit backs-to-the-wall for City and Weale made a great save from Routledge who had burst into the area, taking a cut on the head for his pains. Bandaged, he continued and City came close to sealing the win when, from a corner on the left, Brown saw his header deflected away from danger by Fitz Hall.
Deep in injury time, City had to defend a free-kick 30 yards out but as soon as the shot rebounded off the wall, the final whistle sounded and the Blue Army roared their approval.
City: Weale; Neilson, Hobbs, Brown, Berner, Oakley, A King, Wellens, N'Guessan, Fryatt, Waghorn. Subs: Logan, McGivern (90 for Waghorn), Morrison, Howard, Dyer, Kermorgant, Gallagher (75 for Fryatt).
Booked: Neilson, N'Guessan, Oakley.
QPR Cerny; Ramage, Stewart, Leigertwood, Routledge, Buzsaky, Gorkss, Faurlin, Simpson, Borrowdale, Taarabt. Subs: Heaton, Hall (54 for Stweart), Vine (66 for Ramage), Agyemang (85 for Taarabt), Alberti, Ainsworth, Parker.
Referee: J Moss
Attendance: 17,082 Leicester
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Rangers were unable to continue their recent fine form, as Leicester City took all three points in front of a season's best crowd at Loftus Road.
In front on the live Sky Sports TV cameras, Rangers took the lead when Adel Taarabt finished superbly well when through on goal.
But goals either side of half time from Matty Fryatt put pay to ambitions Rangers had of moving up to second place in the Coca-Cola Championship before kick-off.
The Leicester striker headed home from close range just short of the break, before a mistake from a Radek Cerny goal kick gifted the Foxes hotshot with his second of the game.
MPU Hoops boss Magilton made just one change from the R's side that was victorious last weekend away to Derby County.
After returning from a virus and completing around half an hour as a substitute at Pride Park, Mikele Leigertwood slotted into the centre of midfield in place of the injured Gavin Mahon.
That meant with Cerny in goal, Peter Ramage, Damion Stewart, Kaspars Gorkss and Gary Borrowdale made up the R's backline.
In midfield, Leigertwood and Alejandro Faurlin supported wide men Akos Buzsaky and Taarabt.
Wayne Routledge partnered hotshot Jay Simpson in attack.
The R's - who prior to kick-off boasted the best home record in the Championship with 16 points gained from six matches in W12 - took to the field amidst a firework extravaganza, and it was they who went on the offensive from the off.
Typically, the R's first opportunity of the game was created on the back of a lovely passing move.
Ramage, Buzsaky and Simpson combined well before the latter shot for goal from an acute angle, but Foxes custodian Chris Weale dived to his right to comfortably hold the effort.
Play soon switched to the other end, and when Andy King drilled an effort on goal from 25-yards out, Cerny comfortably caught the ball down low with both hands.
The game was only in its early stages, though chances were aplenty. Only a last-ditch tackle could prevent Routledge finding the target from the edge of the area, after a fine pass from Buzsaky.
Moments later and the R's were again on the attack. Another free-flowing move - this time between Leigertwood, Faurlin and Taarabt - saw the Spurs man through on goal down the left, but Wayne Brown was aware of the danger to slide the ball away for a corner.
Leicester were far from spectators in this already pulsating encounter though, and after a Jack Hobbs header from deep played Martyn Waghorn through on goal, he could only shoot straight at Cerny when under pressure from the Rangers backline.
The visitors were soon on the offensive again, and only a superb intervention from Gorkss could stop Fryatt finding the target from a tight angle down the right.
The R's were now perhaps the better of the two sides in terms of territorial possession, and a Taarabt effort only marginally missed the target when the midfielder blasted at goal from fully 30-yards out.
Rangers goalkeeper Cerny was far from untested in the hosts' goal though, and he did well to single-handedly beat the ball away to safety after Fryatt again found space to drive an effort on target.
Soon after in this end-to-end encounter, Faurlin almost found the opening goal of the game when he fired in a free-kick on goal just short of the area, though Weale was on hand to tip the ball away for a corner.
The Foxes' reprieve was only short lived though, as moments later Taarabt fired the R's into a deserved lead in the 33rd minute.
After originally playing a through ball to Simpson, Taarabt's pass came off the back of a Leicester defender and fell to his feet from 12-yards out.
The Tottenham loanee made no mistake thereafter, coolly slotting the ball home into the bottom corner of the net to hand Rangers the opening goal of the game.
Taarabt, in truth, could have doubled the R's lead just seconds later, but his driven shot was just wide of Weale's left-hand post.
Rangers' joy at taking the lead was short lived though, as just four minutes after Taarabt's strike, the Foxes were level.
After Danny N'Guessan burst down the left, he played a delicious cross to Fryatt. The Leicester forward couldn't miss from three-yards out, as he headed the visitors level going into the interval.
Leicester had proved in the first half just why they sat in 5th place going into this encounter, and soon after the break the Foxes, in truth, started the stronger.
After a mix-up in the R's defence, the ball fell to full-back Robbie Neilson 12 yards from goal, but the Leicester defender could only blast wide of the target.
Moments later, Rangers set about getting a goal that would regain them the lead, and when Simpson touched the ball back to Buzsaky on the edge of the area, the Hungarian international saw his effort curl agonisingly wide of the Foxes goal.
Play then switched to the other end, and Leicester took a 64th minute lead - Fryatt bagging his second goal of the game.
Cerny's goal kick fell only as far as the Foxes frontman, and when through on goal, Fryatt was coolness personified to slot pass the advancing R's goalkeeper.
Rangers weren't too disheartened by the Foxes' second goal of the game though, and Buzsaky again only narrowly missed the target with another fizzing shot from distance.
Now trailing, R's gaffer Magilton acted to try and bring his side back into the match, bringing on Rowan Vine to replace Ramage.
And it was a move that was almost instantly rewarded. After Buzsaky played the ball into the box to Simpson, the Rangers striker dummied for Routledge.
Through on goal, Routledge seemed certain to find the target, before Foxes custodian Weale came rushing out of his goal to thwart him.
Leicester were unlucky not to add a third when Wayne Brown headed for goal from a Waghorn corner, but substitute Fitz Hall was on guard to head the ball off the line.
Buzsaky should have fired home an equaliser for the R's after Routledge centred from the right, but he could only blast high and wide of the target.
QPR: Cerny, Ramage (Vine 67), Stewart (Hall 55), Leigertwood, Routledge, Buzsaky, Gorkss, Faurlin, Simpson, Borrowdale, Taarabt (Agyemang 86).
Subs not used: Heaton, Alberti, Ainsworth, Parker.
Goals: Taarabt (33)
Leicester City: Weale, Neilson, Brown, Oakley, King, Fryatt (Gallagher 75), Berner, N'Guessan, Waghorn (McGivern 90), Wellens, Hobbs.
Subs not used: Logan, Morrison, Howard, Dyer, Kermorgant.
Goals: Fryatt (37 & 64)
Referee: Mr J Moss
Attendance: 17,082 QPR
Sporting Life - FRYATT AT THE DOUBLE FOR LEICESTER By Andy Sims, Press Association Sport
Matty Fryatt halted QPR's surge up the Coca-Cola Championship as fellow promotion hopefuls Leicester stole a march on the Londoners with a 2-1 victory at Loftus Road.
Adel Taarabt fired Rangers ahead just after the half-hour mark but, for once, the free-scoring hosts could not add to their tally and Fryatt's brace - the winner courtesy of a howler from home keeper Radek Cerny - secured City's third straight win and lifted them up to second, level on points with leaders Newcastle.
Rangers' reputation as the division's entertainers - they had scored four goals in each of their last three games - had clearly spread as England boss Fabio Capello joined fellow Italian Flavio Briatore in the directors' box.
Capello may have winced at some of the defending on show, but two in-form sides produced an end-to-end encounter in front of a season's best crowd of 17,082.
However, the majority went home disappointed after Rangers lost their unbeaten home record and blew the chance to go third.
The teams traded blows in the opening quarter of an hour, with Fryatt twice going close and Jay Simpson and Wayne Routledge threatening for Rangers.
Leicester thought they had taken the lead in the 16th minute when Martyn Waghorn slid in to convert Dany N'Guessan's cross, but the on-loan Sunderland frontman was flagged offside.
At the other end, a free-kick from £3.5million Argentinian Alejandro Faurlin was destined for the top corner until Chris Weale stuck out a palm.
Rangers went ahead in the 33rd minute when Taarabt burst forward, played a one-two with Simpson on the edge of the area and expertly swept his right-foot shot past Weale.
The on-loan Tottenham midfielder had another crack moments later, skipping past Andy King before firing just wide.
But it was Leicester who struck next, the lead lasting just five minutes before Rangers failed to deal with N'Guessan's cross and Fryatt's simple header ended his six-game goal drought.
Waghorn was inches away from putting City ahead after the break when he just missed another N'Guessan centre.
But they were gifted the lead in the 64th minute when Cerny attempted a short clearance which Fryatt read and duly dispatched back past the veteran Czech for his 10th goal of the season.
Weale bravely denied Routledge to protect the lead and Akos Buzsaky missed a gilt-edged chance to snatch a point when he blasted over from 10 yards with five minutes remaining. Sporting Life
LEICESTER OFFICIAL SITE
Two goals from Matty Fryatt, either sside of the break, gave Leicester City a tremendous win over a powerful QPR side at Loftus Road tonight for a second successive away win.
City are now level on 27 points with Newcastle at the top of the Championship table and they had to come from behind to get there in a frantic, all-action clash that had tension and excitement right to the last seconds.
City boss Nigel Pearson made two changes from the side that won at Reading. Back into the side came Bruno Berner and Dany N'Guessan for, respectively, Ryan McGivern and Paul Gallagher who were on the bench. Monday night's goal hero Martyn Waghorn kept his place up front.
And it was City who were first to show, a Berner pass sending Matty Fryatt in but he was turned back by sound defending. To underline the blistering pace of the action, moments later at the other end a shot on the turn by Gary Borrowdale found the side netting before the see-saw swung again, a Fryatt driven cross just eluding Waghorn in the middle.
The home side then threatened, a Wayne Routledge run ending with a shot deflected to safety then Wayne Brown made a brilliant saving tackle when Adel Taarabt, on a super run, got all the way through into the area but again City were not sitting back.
A cut-back by Fryatt to N'Guessan was only just deflected away from the winger then City did have the ball in the net, from Waghorn's touch off a Fryatt cross from the left but it was off-side and Rangers then came on strong, Peter Ramage getting in on the right for a cut-back only just cleared, Alejandro Faurlin bringing a great top-corner save from Chris Weale from a free-kick and Taarabt twisting and turning but denied a clear shooting chance.
But he was not denied moments later as, in the 32nd minute, he pounced on the ball after it had broken off a tackle and steered the ball home from near the edge of the area.
The same player came close to doubling the lead moments later but sent the ball wide and soon City were back on terms.
Good work by N'Guessan on the left saw his cross headed home by Fryatt in the middle in the 36th minute to level this pulsating encounter, no more than the visitors deserved and both side strived for the advantage but that was how it stood at the interval.
The second half was no less frantic from the start, Waghorn being given just off-side in an early chance then an N'Guessan run and cross was only inches away from being converted by Waghorn in the middle, a Wellens cross then being headed wide by N'Guessan.
Oakley then broke from midfield and when he was checked in the area, the ball broke to Robbie Neilson whose shot was wide of the near post but Rangers replied when a Buzsaky shot flew very close to the target from distance.
But in the 63rd minute, City took the lead. A bad kick out by keeper Radek Cerny went straight to Fryatt and the City man ran in and made no mistake with a cool finish to set up a very tense finish to what had always been an exciting contest.
It was all a bit backs-to-the-wall for City and Weale made a great save from Routledge who had burst into the area, taking a cut on the head for his pains. Bandaged, he continued and City came close to sealing the win when, from a corner on the left, Brown saw his header deflected away from danger by Fitz Hall.
Deep in injury time, City had to defend a free-kick 30 yards out but as soon as the shot rebounded off the wall, the final whistle sounded and the Blue Army roared their approval.
City: Weale; Neilson, Hobbs, Brown, Berner, Oakley, A King, Wellens, N'Guessan, Fryatt, Waghorn. Subs: Logan, McGivern (90 for Waghorn), Morrison, Howard, Dyer, Kermorgant, Gallagher (75 for Fryatt).
Booked: Neilson, N'Guessan, Oakley.
QPR Cerny; Ramage, Stewart, Leigertwood, Routledge, Buzsaky, Gorkss, Faurlin, Simpson, Borrowdale, Taarabt. Subs: Heaton, Hall (54 for Stweart), Vine (66 for Ramage), Agyemang (85 for Taarabt), Alberti, Ainsworth, Parker.
Referee: J Moss
Attendance: 17,082 Leicester
