{"id":349620,"date":"2025-08-16T17:00:12","date_gmt":"2025-08-16T17:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/349620\/"},"modified":"2025-08-16T17:00:12","modified_gmt":"2025-08-16T17:00:12","slug":"watford-2-1-queens-park-rangers-luca-kjerrumgaard-nets-twice-in-hornets-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/349620\/","title":{"rendered":"Watford 2-1 Queens Park Rangers: Luca Kjerrumgaard nets twice in Hornets win"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Kjerrumgaard opened his account after being set up by fellow recent signing  Nestory Irankunda, who ran on to Edo Kayembe&#8217;s pass down the left and laid the ball across for the Danish striker to slot past keeper Joe Walsh.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">And when Louza then delivered a precise cross from the right flank, Kjerrumgaard doubled Watford&#8217;s lead by heading in from close range after drifting away from QPR defender Steve Cook.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Rangers were brought back into the game just before the interval when Morgan brilliantly blasted home from near the edge of the penalty area.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">They pushed for an equaliser in the second half and Kone, signed from Wycombe this week, was sent on for the final 20 minutes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The striker almost made the perfect start to his QPR career but his near-post flick from Ilias Chair&#8217;s corner was blocked by Bola.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Sam Field also had an opportunity to level late on but shot wide after being set up by teenage left-back Esquerdinha.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Stephan&#8217;s side face a tough task in their next match, away to Coventry next Saturday, when Watford will be away at Swansea. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kjerrumgaard opened his account after being set up by fellow recent signing Nestory Irankunda, who ran on to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":349621,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[748,393,4884,12,1144,712,16,15,1764],"class_list":{"0":"post-349620","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-england","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-northern-ireland","13":"tag-scotland","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom","16":"tag-wales"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115039517120433242","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349620","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=349620"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349620\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/349621"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=349620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=349620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=349620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}