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  • Kick-off: 15:00
  • Venue: Loftus Road Stadium
  • Attendance: 13497
  • Referee: Tanner, S

Live Commentary

90mins

That's it, it's all over, the referee has blown the final whistle.

90mins

Goal!! Sheff Utd have scored with Steven Kabba putting it in the back of the net.

90mins

Goal!! Stefan Moore scores for QPR.

87mins

Martin Rowlands is being taken off, Marcus Bean has come on in his place.

78mins

Neil Shipperley is being taken off, Steven Kabba has come on in his place.

78mins

Chris Morgan goes into the referees book for unsporting behaviour.

74mins

Sheff Utd are replacing Jon Harley with Keith Gillespie.

74mins

Sheff Utd are replacing Lilian Nalis with Craig Short.

69mins

QPR are replacing Gareth Ainsworth with Aaron Brown.

64mins

Neil Shipperley is booked for unsporting behaviour.

59mins

Marc Bircham is booked for unsporting behaviour.

58mins

Leigh Bromby goes into the referees book for unsporting behaviour.

56mins

Goal!! Marc Bircham scores for QPR.

46mins

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

45mins

The ref has blown his whistle for half time.

39mins

QPR are replacing Tom Doherty with Stefan Moore.

0mins

The ref has blown his whistle and the match has started.

Match Report

Marc Bircham and Stefan Moore struck to knock Sheffield United off top spot and keep Rangers' unbeaten start to the season alive.

The fans' favourite struck in the 56th minute with a sweet volley as United's strikers had an off-day. And former Aston Villa forward Moore, in his third substitute appearance of the season ruined Neil Warnock's day with an injury-time strike to seal it.

Blades sub Steven Kabba netted a consolation for United deep into injury-time but it was too little too late for Warnock's men.

Danny Webber barely got a sniff at goal, while the rotund Neil Shipperley looked out of place lumbering up the middle.

The first goal was what Rangers deserved in a scrappy match in which chances were few and far between.

But the fact it came from self-confessed Rangers nut Bircham was altogether harder to believe - as the midfielder is more likely to blast the ball halfway to Shepherds Bush rather than in the net.

Ian Holloway stuck with the same side that beat Ipswich in midweek, while Warnock handed Rob Kozluk a start in place of Michael Tonge.

United had the first chance of the game in the eighth minute, when record signing Paul Ifill took advantage of a wayward Marcus Bignot pass only to fire straight at Simon Royce.

And eight minutes later Webber should have done better when he was under pressure from Danny Shittu but failed to pass to Shipperley waiting in the area.

QPR winger Gareth Ainsworth came up with a rare moment of class in a first half often reduced to niggly midfield scraps, when his 26th-minute cross sailed just above striker Paul Furlong's head.

Martin Rowlands had earlier wasted Rangers' first opportunity when the home side were given a free-kick just to the right of the area, but he scuffed it straight into the United wall.

Rangers lost some of their bite in midfield just before the break when Tommy Doherty was replaced by Moore, with Kevin Gallen dropping back into midfield.

United continued to press after Bircham's goal and Ifill could have scored late on but for a last-ditch tackle from Georges Santos.

Queens Park Rangers Team

Sheffield United Team

Queens Park Rangers

Sheffield United

Corners

09

Fouls

1617

Goal attempts

43

Shots off target

11

Offsides

16

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