QPR fight back to beat Leicester and end losing run

Leicester 1
James (14′)

QPR 3

Vale (43′)
Nelson (OG, 50′)
Edwards (58′)

QPR came from behind to win at Leicester, with Harvey Vale inspiring them to a much-needed victory.

Vale equalised after Jordan James had put the relegation-threatened Foxes ahead.

Rangers had been struggling badly and a defeat would have left them in genuine danger of the drop.

But Ben Nelson’s own goal and Ronnie Edwards’ header lifted them to the all-important 50-point mark generally seen as enough to stay up.

Rangers had lost their previous four matches, failing to score in all four, and there was an all-too familiar feel to Leicester’s opening goal.

Nelson played the ball forward towards James, who ambled away from Isaac Hayden and tried his luck with a long-range effort which keeper Joe Walsh could not keep out of the net.

QPR equalised out of nothing shortly before half-time.

Vale chased Edwards’ ball over the top, nudged it over keeper Jakub Stolarczyk and scored into an empty net.

The goal gave Rangers a huge lift – and two more in the space of eight minutes early in the second half put them in control.

Vale was involved in both, darting down the right and sending in a low ball which Nelson turned into his own net, and then delivering the corner from which Edwards netted his first goal since his permanent move from Southampton.

QPR: Walsh; Mbengue, Dunne, Edwards, Norrington-Davies; Vale (Bennie 95), Hayden, Morgan (Varane 72), Smyth (Saito 84); Kolli (Poku 72), Kone.
Subs not used: Hamer, Adamson, Smith, Clarke-Salter, Esquerdinha.