{"id":71480,"date":"2025-05-03T15:30:09","date_gmt":"2025-05-03T15:30:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/71480\/"},"modified":"2025-05-03T15:30:09","modified_gmt":"2025-05-03T15:30:09","slug":"qpr-end-season-with-win-at-sunderland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/71480\/","title":{"rendered":"QPR end season with win at Sunderland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t  <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-190541 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/sunderland70.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"70\" height=\"60\"\/><strong>Sunderland 0<\/strong><br \/>\n <strong> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-183287 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/qprbadge70.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"70\" height=\"69\"\/>QPR 1 <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Madsen (5\u2032)<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><strong>Nicolas Madsen\u2019s early goal gave QPR an impressive away victory in their final match of the season.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Rangers, with coaches Xavi Calm and Kevin Betsy in caretaker charge following<a style=\"color: #333399;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.westlondonsport.com\/qpr\/cifuentes-is-axed-by-qpr-updated-explainer\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong> the axing of Marti Cifuentes<\/strong><\/a>, made a great start, going ahead after just five minutes at the Stadium of Light.<\/p>\n<p>Harrison Ashby did well on the right and played a low ball in towards Madsen, who took a touch before firing home.<\/p>\n<p>The win was a satisfying end to a troubled, injury-plagued campaign, and meant Rangers matched the 56 points they accrued last season.<\/p>\n<p>They finished 15th in the Championship table \u2013 three places higher than last time around.<\/p>\n<p>But there were more injuries.<\/p>\n<p>Ilias Chair had to be replaced at the interval after appearing to twist his ankle.<\/p>\n<p>And two other players to have missed much of the season, Jack Colback and Karamoko Dembele, went off after picking up injuries in the second half.<\/p>\n<p>Just as a year ago, keeper Joe Walsh was brought in for Rangers\u2019 final match and impressed.<\/p>\n<p>Walsh kept out first-half efforts from Enzo Le F\u00e9e and Luke O\u2019Nien and produced a superb late save to deny Dan Ballard.<\/p>\n<p><b> QPR: <\/b>Walsh, Dunne, Morrison, Edwards, Ashby, Colback (Fox 62), Varane, Chair (Kolli 46), Dembele (Andersen 73), Madsen (Morgan 90+3), Frey.<br \/>Subs not used: Shepperd, Bennie, Esquerdinha, Murphy, Sutton.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sunderland 0 QPR 1 Madsen (5\u2032) Nicolas Madsen\u2019s early goal gave QPR an impressive away victory in their&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":71481,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4100],"tags":[94,29670,79,14,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-71480","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-football","8":"tag-football","9":"tag-qpr-latest-news","10":"tag-sports","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114444620991698756","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71480","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=71480"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71480\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/71481"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}