LONDON: Queens Park Rangers maintained their five-point lead at the top of the Second Division on Sunday after coming from behind to defeat Coventry 2-1 at Loftus Road.
With Cardiff maintaining the pressure on the leaders with a 4-2 win over Watford on Saturday, QPR went into the match desperate for a win to keep their promotion-chasing rivals at arm’s length.
Coventry looked to be intent on spoiling the script, however, when Marlon King put the visitors 1-0 up after 25 minutes.
But a superb individual effort from Adel Taarabt put QPR back on level terms on half-time before loan signing Wayne Routledge popped up with the winner on 79 minutes.
The win was the perfect response to Cardiff’s 4-2 defeat of Watford on Saturday.
Norwich climbed to third place, level on points with Cardiff, after a 2-1 win at Sheffield United.
Paul Lambert’s Norwich were second-best for much of the first half at Bramall Lane, but they took the lead through Andrew Crofts’s 61st-minute goal. Ched Evans levelled in the 69th minute before Crofts struck again in the 80th minute.
Fourth-placed Swansea needed a last-gasp penalty to snatch a 1-1 draw against Barnsley.
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