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  • Kick-off: 15:00
  • Venue: Loftus Road Stadium
  • Attendance: 12368
  • Referee: Williamson, I

Live Commentary

90mins

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

75mins

QPR are replacing Ray Jones with Kevin Gallen.

72mins

Lee Bradbury is replaced by Billy Paynter.

61mins

Ray Jones is booked for unsporting behaviour.

55mins

QPR are replacing Martin Rowlands with Steve Lomas.

46mins

The second half is under way with the score currently at 2 v 0.

45mins

The ref has blown his whistle for half time.

45mins

Matthew Rose is booked for unsporting behaviour.

44mins

Darryl Flahavan is replaced by Stephen Collis.

41mins

Goal!! Nick Ward scores for QPR.

31mins

Goal!! Martin Rowlands scores for QPR.

30mins

Luke Guttridge is booked for unsporting behaviour.

1mins

The referee has booked Dexter Blackstock.

0mins

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

Match Report

Queens Park Rangers earned their first three-point haul of the season with a comfortable victory over Championship newcomers Southend United.

The two teams are among the bookmakers' favourites to go down and on this evidence it is Southend who have the most to worry about.

Rangers were on top from the start, with new signing Dexter Blackstock at the centre of everything.

The forward, who signed from Southampton in midweek, marked his debut for the club by getting booked in the opening minute for diving, but quickly put that behind him and almost opened the scoring after ten minutes.

The youngster burst in to the box but saw his left-foot shot well saved by Southend goalkeeper Darryl Flahavan.

The Shrimpers goalie had a busy time of it in the opening 20 minutes and did well too keep out two further efforts from Rangers' Lee Cook and Gareth Ainsworth.

But Flahavan could do nothing about the opening goal which came just after the half-hour mark. Rangers' tricky winger Cook was fouled just outside the box and from the resulting free-kick, he touched the ball to Martin Rowlands, who thundered a drive in to the top left-hand corner.

Southend struggled to create any openings and star forward Freddy Eastwood, who has been linked with a big money move to Portsmouth, had little to feed on.

Rangers continued to dominate proceedings and doubled their lead in the 41st minute.

Ainsworth sent over a deep cross and youngster Ray Jones won the aerial battle with Flahavan. The ball squirmed to Nick Ward, who had the simple task of tapping in with the goalkeeper stranded.

Flahavan suffered a knock to the head in the collision with Ray Jones and was replaced by substitute keeper Steve Collis.

The Shrimpers came to life in the second period and Rangers goalie Paul Jones, who was redundant in the first half, had to make a save from Luke Guttridge.

Southend battled away but the closest they came to scoring was a shot by Jamal Campbell-Ryce in the final minute, which was well saved by Paul Jones.

Queens Park Rangers Team

Southend United Team

Queens Park Rangers

Southend United

Corners

74

Fouls

911

Goal attempts

1513

Shots off target

69

Offsides

23

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