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  • Kick-off: 15:00
  • Venue: Loftus Road Stadium
  • Attendance: 17834
  • Referee: Wright, K

Live Commentary

90mins

The ref has blown his whistle for full time.

90mins

QPR are replacing Marc Bircham with Marcus Bean.

89mins

Generoso Rossi goes into the referees book for timewasting.

77mins

Goal!! Eugen Bopp scores for Nottm Forest.

67mins

Gregor Robertson is being taken off, Mathieu Louis-Jean has come on in his place.

62mins

Paul Evans is being taken off, Eugen Bopp has come on in his place.

56mins

Scott Dobie is replaced by Neil Harris.

51mins

Goal!! QPR have scored with Marc Bircham putting it in the back of the net.

46mins

The second half is under way with the score currently at 1 v 0.

45mins

Own goal, John Curtis has put it in his own net.

45mins

Half time whistle is blown by K Wright

45mins

Own goal, Gareth Taylor has put it in his own net.

39mins

Kevin Gallen goes into the referees book for unsporting behaviour.

32mins

It's red. He's off. Darryl Powell has been sent off.

18mins

Darryl Powell is booked for unsporting behaviour.

0mins

It's 3pm on Saturday, April 30th, the match has kicked off.

Match Report

Nottingham Forest became the first former European Champions to be consigned to the third tier of their domestic league following their 2-1 defeat at QPR, with Darryl Powell seeing red in the first half.

The visitors did not look like a team fighting for their very existence and their hopeful long balls were easily cut out by Danny Shittu and Georges Santos.

Their task was made almost impossible just after the half hour when Powell, booked earlier for hauling Paul Furlong to the ground, received his second yellow card for a lunge on Martin Rowlands.

The only real surprise was that it took 44 minutes for QPR to break the deadlock through a John Curtis own goal.

The impressive Lee Cook swung a dangerous free-kick into the box and the unfortunate Curtis jumped amongst a crowd of players and flicked the ball into the back of his own net.

Forest changed things at half-time with Gareth Taylor moving from central defence to his more familiar role in attack. The change breathed life into Forest's struggle briefly as they made their first serious attacks on QPR's goal.

The respite was all too brief as QPR soon wrestled control back and forced a brave double save from Paul Gerrard to deny Furlong. Rowlands almost tucked away the loose ball, but had his shot cleared off the line by Gregor Robertson.

QPR doubled their lead from the resulting corner when Forest only managed to clear the ball as far as Marc Bircham, who curled the ball into the top corner from all of 20 yards.

Second-half substitute Eugen Bopp scored a consolation fans in answer to Forest vocal support when he smashed home Curtis' cross, but by then it was all far too late.

Queens Park Rangers Team

Nottingham Forest Team

Queens Park Rangers

Nottingham Forest

Corners

103

Fouls

1515

Goal attempts

78

Shots off target

36

Offsides

72

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