sport news QPR 2-0 Luton: Chris Willock and Charlie Austin lift hosts up to fifth

sport news QPR 2-0 Luton: Chris Willock and Charlie Austin lift hosts up to fifth
sport news QPR 2-0 Luton: Chris Willock and Charlie Austin lift hosts up to fifth
QPR 2-0 Luton: Chris Willock and Charlie Austin score in each half to secure hard-fought win and lift hosts up to fifth in the Championship Chris Willock lifted the ball over the onrushing Simon Sluga for QPR's first goal Charlie Austin buried his header past the Luton goalkeeper to double the lead Luton created plenty of chances but failed to test QPR goalkeeper Seny Dieng

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There was a nice throwback feel to a win that lifted Queens Park Rangers up to fifth in the Championship.

Chris Willock’s opener came from the kind of old-fashioned route one ball that has gradually been purged from the game.

QPR’s second was the kind of poacher’s finish 32-year-old Charlie Austin has built a prolific career on.

QPR forward Chris Willock lifted the ball over Luton goalkeeper Simon Sluga for the first goal

QPR forward Chris Willock lifted the ball over Luton goalkeeper Simon Sluga for the first goal

MATCH FACTS

Queens Park Rangers (3-4-2-1): Dieng; Dickie, Dunne, Barbet; Adomah (Kakay 80), Johansen (c), Dozzell, Wallace; Chair (Amos 88), Willock; Austin (Field 78)

Substitutes not used: Archer (GK); Ball, Thomas, Duke-McKenna

Manager: Mark Warburton

Scorers: Willock 10; Austin 55

Booked: Dozzell, Austin, Dickie

Luton Town (3-5-2): Sluga; Lockyer, Naismith, Bradley (c); Bree, Campbell (Jerome 79), Onyedinma, Ruddock, Lansbury; Cornick (Muskwe 68), Adebayo

Substitutes not used: Shea (GK); Hylton, Clark, Bell, Osho

Manager: Nathan Jones

Booked: Lansbury, Bradley

Referee: Matthew Donohue

Attendance: 15,062 (2,452 away)

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Combined, it was enough to extend their unbeaten run to four games at the expense of an ambitious Luton side themselves eyeing a promotion challenge in a wide open division.

If Bournemouth and Fulham are already threatening to run away with automatic promotion, the scramble for the four Play-off positions could turn out to be an epic.

Not too many points split third position from the bottom half, with familiar candidates and some surprise names jostling

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