Ahead of Saturday’s hiding to nothing at Elland Road we’re warming ourselves with the nostalgia of a famous comeback win and incredible goal of the season attempt from Roy Wegerle back in 1990.
Leeds United 2 QPR 3, Saturday October 20, 1990, First Division
The pub quiz question on the last English manager to win the league championship in this country remains a favourite, and following Pep Guardiola’s latest success earlier this year the answer remains Howard Wilkinson.
After a low-profile playing career Wilkinson made his name in the game as a manager, first promoting Sheffield Wednesday to the top flight and establishing them there in the mid-1980s and then repeating the feat with Leeds United. He arrived at Elland Road in October 1988 and won the Second Division championship in his first full season in charge with a team that included the likes of Lee Chapman in attack and Chris Fairclough in defence either side of a central midfield partnership of Vinnie Jones and Gordon Strachan.
Upon promotion Leeds added Gary McAllister to the midfield instead of Jones, brought in goalkeeper John Lukic from Arsenal and promoted youth team graduates David Batty and Gary Speed. It was a formidable outfit for a newly promoted team but early results were mixed — wins at Everton and Sheffield United were offset by defeats to Luton, Spurs and Leicester. When QPR arrived in West Yorkshire in mid-October Wilkinson’s team had won four, drawn three and lost three.
Rangers’ record was almost identical. They’d won three, drawn four and lost three of their opening ten games with a 6-1 home win against Luton and early win against bitter rivals Chelsea in W12 (with Kerry Dixon hacking a penalty over the bar at the Loft End) the highlights and a 1-0 home set back against Wimbledon and 3-1 loss at Coventry best off forgotten about. They’d been very reliant on enigmatic South African-born USA international striker Roy Wegerle though. Don Howe’s Rangers scored three goals in their first four matches that season prior to the Luton thrashing and Wegerle got all of them. What was to follow from him at Elland Road would go down in QPR folklore.
The focus before kick-off had been at the other end of the field. QPR had picked out Czech international goalkeeper Jan Stejskal from that summer’s Italian World Cup as a potential signing but he wanted to stay with his home town club Sparta Prague until they were eliminated from that season’s European Cup. That left Howe persevering with accident prone youngster Tony Roberts until Stejskal arrived, and when the new man finally did touch down on these shores he found himself thrust into a debut in the cauldron of Elland Road.
That wasn’t an ideal situation to be in, and Leeds smelt blood early on. A routine early free kick down the field was flicked on by John Pearson and that tempted Stejskal from his line allowing centre back Chris Whyte to hook into an unguarded net with just a quarter of an hour played. Unnerved, the keeper then threw a ball out to left back Kenny Sansom that was never on, he was robbed of possession by Strachan and when the diminutive Scot crossed Lee Chapman was unmarked six yards out and hammered in a second. A defeat seemed inevitable — a question of how many.
But the visitors, resplendent in red and black hoops, found a way back into the game before half time. A young Les Ferdinand harried Whyte out of possession on the corner of his own penalty box which allowed Simon Barker to accelerate to the byline and cut the ball back for Ray Wilkins to hammer home from 18 yards out.
Then, on the stroke of half time, a moment of vintage Wegerle genius levelled the game. Collecting the ball wide on the right flank, only ten yards inside the Leeds half, he set off towards goal at no great speed but with consummate control of the ball. In all he tempted six Leeds players into tackles only to then skip round them before dragging the ball back and dropping his shoulder on the edge of the penalty area and unleashing an unstoppable low drive into the corner. It was a miraculous, mesmeric goal, totally typical of the man. It was later voted the top flight’s goal of the season, only the second time a QPR player had won the award following Gerry Francis’ famous effort against Liverpool at Loftus Road back in 1975 — Trevor Sinclair’s bicycle kick in an FA Cup tie with Barnsley in 1997 subsequently made that three. Even the notoriously harsh home fans at Elland Road had to applaud.
The momentum was with QPR at this stage but a typically generous home-town decision gave Leeds a penalty after half time — Maddix harshly adjudged to have pushed Chapman under a deep corner — only for Strachan to smack his shot flush onto the face of the bar while trying to beat Stejskal up in his top corner.
That paved the way for a memorable comeback win for the Londoners. Five minutes from time a scrappy piece of play on the edge of the Leeds area was tidied up in typically calm and composed style by Wilkins who caressed a perfect pass into the path of Wegerle and he swept home the winner past Lukic and into the far corner. His ninth of the season, QPR’s first away win of the campaign, a day those present in the caged away end will never forget. QPR finished the season twelfth, Leeds an impressive fourth.
Leeds: Lukic, Sterland, Fairclough, Whyte, Haddock, Batty, Strachan, Pearson, McAllister, Speed, Chapman
QPR: Stejskal, Parker, McDonald, Maddix, Sansom, Bardsley, Wilkins, Barker, Sinton, Ferdinand (Falco), Wegerle
Subs not used: Sinton, Wilson
Attendance: 27,443
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QPR 4 Leeds United 0, Friday April 26, 2024, Championship
The highlight of the Marti Cifuentes era so far, possibly its peak the way things are going, came at home to Leeds live on Sky at the end of the 23/24 season. Rangers secured their Championship status and torpedoed Leeds’ promotion hopes into the bargain with a scintillating display and four goals. Ilias Chair got things underway with a trademark first before Lucas Andersen cut in from the right and added a second. Lyndon Dykes’ goal from a second half corner meant we could finally relax and enjoy a game at Loftus Road and the team responded with a Sam Field header for four. The perfect evening.
QPR: Begovic 8; Dunne 8, Cook 8, Clarke-Salter 8 (Fox 81, -), Paal 8; Colback 8 (Hayden 81, -), Field 8; Willock 8 (Adomah 87, -), Andersen 8 (Smyth 57, 7), Chair 9; Dykes 8 (Armstrong 87, -)
Subs Not Used: Dixon-Bonner, Cannon, Larkeche, Walsh
Goals: Chair 8 (assisted Clarke-Salter), Andersen 22 (assisted Willock), Dykes 73 (assisted Chair), Field 86 (assisted Chair)
Yellow Cards: Colback 64 (kicking ball away)
Leeds: Meslier 3; Byram 4 (Joseph 63, 4), Rodon 4, Ampadu 4, Firpo 3; Gray 5, Gruev 2 (Kamara 88, -); Gnonto 3 (Shackleton 88, -), Rutter 4 (Gelhardt 80, -), Summerville 3 (Anthony 80, -); Piroe 4
Subs not used: Cresswell, Cooper, Darlow, Crew
Yellow Cards: Byram 16 (foul), Gnonto 40 (foul)
Leeds United 1 QPR 0, Wednesday October 4, 2023, Championship
The fag end of Gareth Ainsworth’s dreadful spell as QPR manager included long, fruitless trips to the likes of Elland Road and The Hawthorns where it was difficult to tell what the plan was for QPR to even cross the halfway line, never mind score a goal. A shocking bit of defending by Osman Kakay and Paul Smyth let Summerville in for an opener after nine minutes and from there Leeds saw out a 1-0 win barely in second gear. A late Lyndon Dykes shot at the keeper was as near as Rangers came, and Asmir Begovic was then sent off in stoppage time after Patrick Bamford conned the referee with a dive just to really put the tin hat on the evening.
Leeds: Meslier 6; Ayling 4, Rodon 6, Struijk 7, Byram 6; Gray 7, Ampadu 7; Summerville 7 (Poveda 80, -), Piroe 5 (Bamford 65, 5), Anthony 7 (James 65, 6); Rutter 6 (Cresswell 90+11, -)
Subs Not Used: Cooper, Kamara, Darlow, Gelhardt, Gruev
Goals: Summerville 9 (assisted Rutter)
QPR: Begovic 6; Kakay 3 (Dunne 73, 5), Cook 5 (Larkeche 84, -), Clarke-Salter 6; Smyth 4 (Adomah 46, 4), Colback 4 (Dozzell 46, 5), Field 5, Paal 5; Dykes 5, Chair 5, Armstrong 4 (Kolli 78, 5)
Subs not used: Archer, Dixon-Bonner, Duke-Mckenna, Kelman
Red Cards: Begovic 90+3 (professional foul)
Yellow Cards: Field 26 (foul), Kakay 69 (foul)
QPR 1 Leeds United 0, Saturday January 18, 2020, Championship
Loftus Road became the only ground on which Marcelo Bielsa has ever lost three times as a visiting manager as QPR won a pulsating, controversial Championship tie against El Loco’s promotion chasers in January 2020. Bright Osayi-Samuel and Ebere Eze terrorised the visitors all afternoon, and when Osayi-Samuel was fouled on the edge of the box early on Eze’s free kick was deflected into the path of Nahki Wells who scored via a blatant bit of control with his arm. Referee Peter Bankes did give Leeds a chance to equalise from the penalty spot in the second half but Liam Kelly, having conceded the penalty, then had his finest moment during a brief QPR career by saving Patrick Bamford’s typically insipid penalty kick. In a frantic finale Kalvin Phillips’ horror tackle on Geoff Cameron, who he’d already crocked once in the previous meeting that season, drew a straight red card.
QPR: Kelly 8, Kane 8, Hall 7, Masterson 8, Wallace 6: Cameron 6, Amos 7 (Scowen 74, 6); Osayi-Samuel 8, Chair 7, (Clarke 74, 6) Eze 7; Wells 7 (Pugh 83, -)
Subs not used: Barnes, Manning, Leistner, Ball.
Goals: Wells (pre-assist Eze)
Bookings: Masterson 71 (time wasting), Wallace 79 (foul), Cameron 88 (retaliation), Wells (foul play).
Leeds: Casilla 5; Dallas 5 (Alioski 45, 6), Cooper 6, White 6, Ayling 6; Phillips 5, Klich 6 (Stevens 87, -); Costa 5, Hernandez 7, Harrison 6; Bamford 3
Subs not used: Mesiler, Struijk, McCalmont, Shackleon, Casey
Red Cards: Phillips 88 (serious foul play)
Bookings: Dallas 42 (foul), Hernandez 74 (foul), Ayling 88 (unsporting)
Leeds United 2 QPR 0, Saturday November 2, 2019, Championship
QPR were beaten reasonably comfortably by Leeds in the first meeting that season, perhaps caught lacking a little bit of self belief and quality against one of the division’s better teams and in front of a hostile crowd. Lee Wallace, on debut, made a wonderful goal-saving tackle early on and Patrick Bamford missed a series of increasingly easy chances as the afternoon wore on. But goals from two of Leeds’ three best players on the day — Tyler Roberts and Jack Harrison — was enough to see the hosts through. Roberts scored from the edge of the area just before half time and Harrison made the most of Marc Pugh inadvertently diverting the ball back into his own area eight minutes before the end.
Leeds: Casilla 6; Ayling 6, Cooper 6, White 7, Dallas 6; Phillips 8, Klich 6; Harrison 7 (Davis 84, -), Roberts 7, Costa 5 (Hernandez 77, 5); Bamford 5
Subs not used: Meslier, Berardi, Gotts, Bogusz, Clarke
Goals Roberts 39 (assisted Harrison), Harrison 82 (assisted Pugh)
Bookings: Klich 22 (foul)
QPR: Kelly 6; Hall 6, Leistner 5 (Kane 54, 6), Wallace 6; Rangel 5, Ball 5, Chair 5 (Pugh 63, 5), Eze 6, Manning 6; Wells 5 (Mlakar 72, 5), Hugill 5
Subs not used: Lumley, Amos, Scowen, Osayi-Samuel
Bookings: Ball 70 (repetitive fouling), Wallace 79 (foul), Rangel 90+2 (foul), Hugill 90+3 (foul)
QPR 1 Leeds United 0, Tuesday February 26, 2019, Championship
QPR won in the Championship for the first time in ten attempts, putting an enormous dent in Leeds’ title hopes at the same time, when they triumphed against the odds at Loftus Road in February 2019. They were led from the front by Luke Freeman who scored the only goal of the game with a cute backflick at the near post at the start of the second half, part of an all-action performance that will go down in modern day Rangers folklore. Rangers rode their luck, and required an incredible triple save from Joe Lumley to keep Patrick Bamford out in the second half, but held on for a vital win in what would become a quest to avoid sinking into the bottom three.
QPR: Lumley 7; Furlong 6, Leistner 7, Hall 7, Bidwell 6; Luongo 8, Cousins 7; Wszolek 6, Eze 7 (Osayi-Samuel 77, 6), Freeman 9 (Scowen 86, -); Wells 6 (Hemed 83, -)
Subs not used: Ingram, Smith, Lynch, Manning
Goals: Freeman 48 (assisted Luongo)
Bookings: Luongo 45+2 (foul) Bidwell 50 (foul), Wells 57 (kicking ball away), Scowen 87 (ratting)
Leeds: Cassila 7; Ayling 6 (Dallas 73, 6), Jansson 6, Cooper 6, Alioski 5 (Brown 81, -); Phillips 5 (Douglas 65, 5), Klich 6; Hernandez 6, Roberts 6, Harrison 5; Bamford 5.
Subs not used: Peacock-Farrell, Berardi, Shackleton, Gotts
Bookings: Brown 85 (foul)
QPR 2 Leeds 1, Sunday January 6, 2019, FA Cup third round
QPR won an FA Cup game outright for the first time in 22 years when these sides met at Loftus Road at the start of January 2019. An early lead provided from the penalty spot by Aramide Oteh after Jake Bidwell was fouled was soon cancelled out by a horrendous Matt Ingram error and goal from close range by Halme. Walker had already hit the inside of both posts in the first minute for the visitors and when Ingram later fluffed a pass back it looked like another cup horror story was on the cards for Rangers. But Bidwell won the game late on with a flying header from a Luke Freeman corner to set up a round four trip to Portsmouth.
QPR: Ingram 5; Kakay 6, Furlong 7, Hall 6, Bidwell 8; Scowen 7, Cousins 7; Osayi-Samuel 7 (Wszolek 86, -), Eze 6 (Smith 90, -), Freeman 8; Oteh 7 (Chair 83, -)
Subs not used: Lumley, Manning, Baptiste, Smyth
Goals: Oteh 23 (penalty, won Bidwell), Bidwell 75 (assisted Freeman)
Bookings: Furlong 72 (foul), Kakay 90+3 (dissent)
Leeds: Peacock-Farrell 7; Shackleton 6, Ayling 6, Halme 5 (Pearce 45, 5 (Temenuzhkovat 79, 5)) Davis 5 (Odour 87, -); Forshaw 7, Clarke 6; Baker 6, Roberts 7, Alioski 6; Harrison 6
Goals: Halme 25 (assisted Baker)
Subs not used: Huffer, Diaz, Stevens, Gotts
Bookings: Halme 20 (foul), Alioski 84 (repetitive fouling), Baker 88 (foul)
Leeds 2 QPR 1, Saturday December 8, 2018, Championship
Leeds striker Kemar Roofe proved the scourge of QPR once again with a pair of goals either side of half time as QPR lost narrowly in a deluge at Elland Road in early December 2018. Rangers had taken the lead after weathering an early Leeds storm, Nahki Wells silencing the home crowd by mugging off two defenders before sliding home from the edge of the box. But Rangers sank too deep protecting that lead and eventually succumbed to Roofe’s first scrambled effort from close range in first half stoppage time. With Geoff Cameron off injured at half time and Rangers still regrouping, Toni Leistner was harshly judged to have handled in the area and Roofe converted Leeds’ first penalty in 59 matches. A later appeal by Matt Smith for a QPR spot kick was waved away and Jake Bidwell’s audacious late attempt to chip the keeper was saved by Bailey Peacock-Farrell.
Leeds: Peacock-Farrell 6; Shackleton 7, Jansson 5, Phillips 5, Douglas 6; Forshaw 6; Alioski 6, Saiz 6 (Halme 81, 7), Klich 6, Hernandez 8 (Clarke 86, -); Roofe 8
Subs not used: Bamford, Huffer, Harrison, Baker, Davis
Goals: Roofe 45+3 (assisted Hernandez), 52 (penalty, won Roofe)
Bookings: Klich 33 (foul), Phillips 63 (foul)
QPR: Lumley 6; Rangel 6, Leistner 5, Lynch 5, Bidwell 6; Cameron 6 (Scowen 46, 6), Luongo 6; Wszolek 5 (Osayi-Samuel 73, 6), Eze 6 (Smith 78, 5), Freeman 6; Wells 6
Subs not used: Ingram, Furlong, Cousins, Hemed
Goals: Wells 26 (unassisted)
Bookings: Scowen 48 (foul), Leistner 52 (dissent), Rangel 76 (foul), Lynch 85 (nearly Christmas)
Leeds United 2 QPR 0, Sunday May 6, 2018, Championship
Leeds completed a comfortable double against QPR for 2017/18 with an easy win on the final day of the campaign in what turned out to be the last game in charge for both Paul Heckingbottom and Ian Holloway. A typically random Holloway team selection with Darnell Furlong and Jake Bidwell at centre half had already looked vulnerable from several corners before perennial scourge of the R’s Kemar Roofe, who’d scored a hat trick at Loftus Road before Christmas, hooked in the first from a set piece on 30 minutes. A misplaced kick from Joe Lumley gave Kalvin Phillips the chance to make it two and kill the game straight after half time. Rangers weren’t at the races.
Leeds: Peacock-Farrell 6; Ayling 7, Jansson 6 (Pennington 46, 6), Cooper 6, Pearce 8; Phillips 7, Vieira 6; Forshaw 7 (O’Kane 87, -), Alioksi 6, Roofe 7 (Edmondson 74,6); Ekuban 5
Subs not used: Lonergan, Lasogga, Saiz, Sacko
Goals: Roofe 30, Phillips 47
Bookings: Alioski 54 (foul), Edmondson 81 (foul), Phillips 86 (foul)
QPR: Lumley 5; Wszolek 5 (Smyth 67, 5), Furlong 6, Bidwell 5, Manning 6; Cousins 4, Scowen 6, Chair 5 (Osayi-Samuel 60, 5); Freeman 6, Eze 5 (Oteh 73, 5), Smith 5
Subs not used: Ingram, Kakay, Hamalainen, Owens
Bookings: Furlong 63 (foul), Scowen 84 (foul), Bidwell 90+1 (foul)
QPR 1 Leeds United 3, Saturday December 9, 2017, Championship
QPR’s winter slump continued with a defeat to Leeds in December that, once again, extended a winless run to six matches under Ian Holloway. A tight first half had seen Luke Freeman and Conor Washington miss from close range but the visitors cut loose after half time with three goals from former Oxford man Kemar Roofe. The first was a close range header on the hour, the second a volley from only slightly further out five minutes later and the hat trick goal was swept under Alex Smithies in an injury time counter attack. QPR scored with their first shot on target just prior to that, Pawel Wszolek’s chipped through ball allowed to bounce in by hapless keeper Weidwald, but the German redeemed himself by rushing out to stop Idrissa Sylla making it 2-2 just before Roofe sealed the game. Roofe hadn’t scored in nine matches prior to that.
QPR: Smithies 6; Wszolek 6, Onuoha 6, Robinson 6, Bidwell 6 (Sylla 71, 5); Scowen 6 (Hall 78, 6), Freeman 6, Luongo 6, Chair 6 (Osayi-Samuel 64, 5); Washington 5, Smith 6
Subs not used: Cousins, Manning, Lumley, Wheeler
Goals: Wszolek 89 (unassisted)
Bookings: Scowen 20 (foul), Luongo 55 (foul)
Leeds: Weidwald 5; Ayling 6, Jansson 7, Cooper 7, Beradi 6; Vieira 7 (Pennington 80, -), Phillips 7; Alioski 7 (O’Kane 70, 6), Saiz 8, Roofe 8; Ekuban 5 (Cibicki 38, 6)
Subs not used: Lonergan, Borthwick-Jackson, Anita, Shaughnessy
Goals: Roofe 63 (assisted Alioski), 64 (assisted Cibicki), 90+4 (assisted Saiz)
Bookings: Phillips 29 (foul), Vieira 56 (foul), Alioski 60 (dissent)
Leeds United 0 QPR 0, Saturday March 11, 2017, Championship
Everything but the goal for Ian Holloway’s impressive QPR at the peak of their 2016/17 powers at Elland Road when these sides met in March. With four wins from the previous five, and a 5-1 win against Rotherham to come the following week, QPR played superbly against fourth-placed Leeds, shutting the division’s top marksman Chris Wood out of the game and failing to score only because Conor Washington started his shot around Rob Green out too wide of the post and couldn’t bring it back in.
Leeds: Green 6; Ayling 7, Bartley 6, Jansson 6, Berardi 5; Bridcutt 6, Vieira 6 (O’Kane 78, 6); Roofe 6 (Sacko 60, 6), Hernandez 6, Pedraza 6 (Doukara 73, 5); Wood 5
Subs not used: Cooper, Silvestri, Taylor, Dallas
Bookings: Ayling 35 (foul), Alfonso 48 (foul), Bridcutt 66 (foul), O’Kane 90+4 (ungentlemanly)
QPR: Smithies 6; Furlong 6, Onuoha 8, Lynch 7, Bidwell 6; Freeman 8, Hall 7, Luongo 7; Wszolek 7 (Ngbakoto 79, 6), Smith 6 (Sylla 78, 6), Washington 6 (Mackie 80, 6)
Subs not used: Goss, Ingram, Manning, Morrison
Bookings: Bidwell 87 (foul), Mackie 90+4 (ungentlemanly)
QPR 3 Leeds United 0, Sunday August 7, 2016, Championship
There were few signs of the respective seasons to come for these two sides on the opening day at Loftus Road. Robert Green, making a swift return to W12 after a summer release, dropped one in his own net after five minutes to set the scene. All the spin about QPR’s ridiculously harsh pre-season under Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink rang true as they ran Leeds off the park, eventually scoring a deserved second when Jordan Cousins won a penalty and Tjaronn Chery converted. Seb Polter volleyed a third in in injury time.
QPR: Smithies 6; Onuoha 7, Caulker 7, Hall 7, Bidwell 7; Gladwin 5 (Cousins 56, 7), Henry 8, Luongo 8, Shodipo 6 (El Khayati 68, 6); Chery 7 (Perch 88, -); Polter 8
Subs not used: Lynch, Washington, Ingram, Kpekawa
Goals: Bamba og 5 (assisted Chery/Onuoha), Chery 73 (penalty, won Cousins), Polter 90+3 (assisted Onuoha)
Bookings: Gladwin 25 (foul), Bidwell 31 (dissent)
Leeds: Green 3; Beradi 3 (Coyle 22, 6); Bartley 6, Bamba 4, Taylor 6; Viera 6, Diagouraga 4; Dallas 5, Grimes 5 (Antonsson 61, 4), Roofe 5 (Sacko 75, 7); Wood 4
Subs not used: Cooper, Turnbull, Mowatt, Phillips
Bookings: Grimes 57 (foul)
Leeds 1 QPR 1, Tuesday April 5, 2016, Championship
Two substitutions helped Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink salvage a point on his return to his former stomping ground Elland Road back in April, 2016. Another injury for the luckless Jamie Mackie saw Seb Polter step forward from the bench in the first half and when he drove into the penalty area four minutes from time and was felled it presented second half sub Tjaronn Chery with a chance to score from the spot. That was only an equaliser through, with Chris Wood scoring from close range on 70 minutes when Rangers were caught out by Murphy’s inswinging free kick.
Leeds: Peacock-Farrell 5; Beradi 6, Bellusci 4, Cooper 6, Taylor 6; Bridcutt 7, Murphy 6 (Diagouraga 83, -), Dallas 5 (Coyle 86, -), Cook 6; Carayol 6 (Mowatt 90, -), Wood 6
Subs not used: Bamba, Adeyemi, Grimes, Antenucci
Goals: Wood 70 (assisted Murphy)
QPR: Smithies 5; Onuoha 6, Hall 6, Angella 5, Perch 5; Phillips 5, Luongo 5, Faurlin 5, Hoilett 7 (Chery 74, 6); Washington 4 (El Khayati 80, -), Mackie 4 (Polter 24, 5)
Subs not used: Gladwin, Henry, Ingram, Robinson
Goals: Chery 86 (penalty, won Polter)
QPR 1 Leeds 0, Saturday November 28, 2014, Championship
Caretaker manager Neil Warnock enjoyed a revenge mission against his former employers with a 1-0 win at Loftus Road when these sides met in November, 2014. The reliance on Charlie Austin was clear for all to see as he settled a drab match with almost his first touch as a second half substitute — powering in a header from Ale Faurlin’s corner. Earlier Robert Green had come tearing out of his area for no good reason leaving Chris Wood to run in behind him but the new Zealand forward took too long over his finish. Leeds didn’t muster a serious shot on target all game and would have lost by more but the form of their goalkeeper Silvestri who saved brilliantly from Hall and Chery late in the second half.
QPR: Green 5; Perch 6, Onuoha 7, Hall 7, Konchesky 6; Petrasso 6 (Austin 57, 7), Sandro 7, Faurlin 8, Yun 6 (Chery 57, 7), Hoilett 7 (Henry 89, -), Phillips 6
Subs not used: Luongo, Smithies, Angella, Tozser
Goals: Austin 58 (assisted Faurlin)
Leeds: Silvestri 7; Wootton 5, Belusci 5, Cooper 5, Taylor 5; Mowatt 6 (Botaka 67, 5), Bridcutt 6, Cook 6, Dallas 6; Antenucci 5 (Erwin 80, -), Wood 4
Subs not used: Byram, Murphy, Doukara, Adeyemi, Peacock-Farrell
Booked: Bridcutt 6 (foul), Wootton 35 (foul), Cook 82 (foul)
Head to Head >>> Leeds wins 25 >>> Draws 16 >>> QPR wins 22
2023/24 QPR 4 Leeds 0 (Chair, Andersen, Dykes, Field)
2023/24 Leeds 1 QPR 0
2019/20 QPR 1 Leeds 0 (Wells)
2019/20 Leeds 2 QPR 0
2018/19 QPR 1 Leeds 0 (Freeman)
2018/19 QPR 2 Leeds 1** (Oteh, Bidwell)
2018/19 Leeds 2 QPR 1 (Wells)
2017/18 Leeds 2 QPR 0
2017/18 QPR 1 Leeds 3 (Wszolek)
2016/17 Leeds 0 QPR 0
2016/17 QPR 3 Leeds 0 (Bamba og, Chery, Polter)
2015/16 Leeds 1 QPR 1 (Chery)
2015/16 QPR 1 Leeds 0 (Austin)
2013/14 QPR 1 Leeds 1 (Jenas)
2013/14 Leeds 0 QPR 1 (Hill)
2010/11 QPR 1 Leeds 2 (Helguson)
2010/11 Leeds 2 QPR 0
2006/07 Leeds 0 QPR 0
2006/07 QPR 2 Leeds 2 (Rowlands pen, Baidoo)
2005/06 Leeds 2 QPR 0
2005/06 QPR 0 Leeds 1
2004/05 QPR 1 Leeds 1 (Gallen)
2004/05 Leeds 6 QPR 1 (Ainsworth)
1995/96 QPR 1 Leeds 2 (Gallen)
1995/96 Leeds 1 QPR 3 (Dichio 2, Sinclair)
1994/95 Leeds 4 QPR 0
1994/95 QPR 3 Leeds 2 (Ferdinand 2, Gallen)
1993/94 QPR 0 Leeds 4
1993/94 Leeds 1 QPR 1 (Meaker)
1992/93 Leeds 1 QPR 1 (Ferdinand)
1992/93 QPR 2 Leeds 1 (Bardsley, Ferdinand)
1991/92 QPR 4 Leeds 1 (Ferdinand, Allen, Sinton, Wilson pen)
1991/92 Leeds 2 QPR 0
1990/91 QPR 2 Leeds 0 (Wegerle, Barker)
1990/91 QPR 0 Leeds 3*
1990/91 Leeds 2 QPR 3 (Wegerle 2, Wilkins)
1986/87 Leeds 2 QPR 0**
1982/83 QPR 1 Leeds 0 (Hart og)
1982/83 Leeds 0 QPR 1 (Allen)
1978/79 Leeds 4 QPR 3 (Walsh, Roeder, Busby)
1978/79 QPR 0 Leeds 2*
1978/79 QPR 1 Leeds 4 (Eastoe)
1977/78 QPR 0 Leeds 0
1977/78 Leeds 3 QPR 0
1976/77 Leeds 0 QPR 1 (Eastoe)
1976/77 QPR 0 Leeds 0
1975/76 QPR 2 Leeds 0 (Thomas, Bowles)
1975/76 Leeds 2 QPR 1 (Bowles (pen))
1974/75 QPR 1 Leeds 1 (Givens)
1974/75 Leeds 0 QPR 1 (Francis)
1973/74 QPR 0 Leeds 1
1973/74 Leeds 2 QPR 2 (Thomas, Bowles)
1968/69 QPR 0 Leeds 1
1968/69 Leeds 4 QPR 1 (Wilks)
1951/52 QPR 0 Leeds 0
1951/52 Leeds 3 QPR 0
1950/51 Leeds 2 QPR 2 (Shepherd, Smith)
1950/51 QPR 3 Leeds 0 (Shepherd, Hatton (pen), Mills)
1949/50 QPR 1 Leeds 1 (Best)
1949/50 Leeds 1 QPR 1 (Pointon)
1948/49 QPR 2 Leeds 0 (Addinall 2)
1948/49 Leeds 1 QPR 2 (Gibbons, Pattison)
1931/32 QPR 3 Leeds 1** (Cribb, Rounce)
* - League Cup
** - FA Cup
Tony Ingham >>> Leeds 1947-1950 >>> QPR 1950-1963
Tony Ingham remains QPR’s record appearance holder to this day, despite leaving the club way back in 1963, and in the modern era it’s unlikely anybody is going to beat his 548 league and cup outings for the Super Hoops any time soon — particularly with the turnover of players at Loftus Road these days.
Ingham was born in Harrogate in 1925 and spotted playing local football there as a 22 year old just after the Second World War. He served in the Royal Navy during the conflict, and completed an electrical apprenticeship while playing part-time for Harrogate Town which is where the local league side Leeds United picked him up from. He’d intended to be a full time electrician until that point. He stayed at Elland Road for four years, but only made three appearances for the senior team after finding himself stuck behind first John Charles and then Jimmy Milburn.
He wasn’t exactly a regular at QPR either having moved down to London to join the R’s in 1950 for a fee of £5,000. He made his debut in a 2-1 home defeat by Doncaster Rovers in the Second Division in November 1950 (Cyril Hatton with the QPR goal) and only missed two matches for the rest of the season. Nevertheless, he started the 1951/52 campaign out of the side and, bar two outings at the end of November and beginning of December in 2-0 and 4-0 defeats to Birmingham and Leicester respectively, he didn’t start playing regularly again until the Christmas and New Year period when he was recalled for a 3-2 home win against Swansea Town.
Rangers were relegated from the Second Division into Third Division South that year. Ingham is quoted on the Leeds United history site saying: "One more point would have kept us up and we should have got that in one of our last games against Cardiff City. Alf Sherwood punched the ball off the line but the ref never saw it so we didn't even get a penalty let alone a goal. We were drawing at the time and that goal would have given us the extra point to stay up.”
But in his third season with the club he made the transition into first team regular, missing just three matches in the entire Division Three South campaign. He was rarely out of the starting 11 for the following decade after that — remarkably completing the 1956/57, 1957/58, 1958/59, 1959/60 and 1960/61 seasons without missing a single league or cup game - 272 consecutive appearances. That meant, amazingly, that having returned to the side after a four match absence for a 1-0 win against Exeter on February 25 1956 he didn’t miss another competitive match until a 1-1 draw at home to Bournemouth on September 16, 1961, some five and a half years later. Have that Armand Traore.
Left back isn’t a position conducive to prolific goal scoring of course, and for all his loyal service he only managed six in his entire time with the club before retiring in 1963. But he was around for the start of the Alec Stock and Jim Gregory revolution at Loftus Road which would see Loftus Road entirely redeveloped and the club eventually become a top flight regular. Gregory dissuaded Ingham from leaving W12 in the early 1960s with an offer to stay on at the club after his retirement.
Despite being a born and bred northerner, he came to call London and QPR home, staying on at Loftus Rod in various capacities for many years afterwards back in the days when a job at QPR was a job for life and people like the late Daphne Biggs would be around the club for decades. Ingham was commercial manager, club secretary and on the board of directors at various points. He had a suite in the South Africa Road stand named after him in recognition of his commitment and long service.
Ingham died in April 2010 aged 85 following an illness.
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