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Queens Park Rangers' Yoann Barbet during the Sky Bet Championship match at the Kiyan Prince Foundation Stadium, London
QPR 1-0 Blackburn Rovers
by Dan Nolan
at Kiyan Prince Foundation Stadium
MARK WARBURTON admitted that Yoann Barbet’s scrappy winner was “no goal-of-the-month contender,” but credited QPR for their hard graft in shutting out in-form visitors Blackburn Rovers on Saturday.
Travelling to west London after an unbeaten January, Blackburn enjoyed the best of a goalless first half and could easily have gone ahead had Adam Armstrong’s 21st-minute free-kick not been tipped over by flying Seny Dieng.
But after the visitors squandered several gilt-edged chances, QPR made the most of their best period of the match — a set-piece-laden restart which put Rovers under heavy pressure — as Barbet fired them to their fourth win in five.
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