Super Scow adds to former club’s woes

JOSH SCOWEN’S stunning strike against his former club gave QPR a welcome home victory.

Scowen (below) netted three minutes into the second half at Loftus Road, where Rangers played the final 19 minutes with 10 men after Ryan Manning was sent off for a challenge on Matt Mills shortly after coming on as a substitute.

Scowen’s goal was his first since joining Rangers from Barnsley last summer.

The midfielder collected the ball 25 yards out and bent a glorious shot beyond keeper

Nick Townsend and into the far corner of the net.

Relegation-threatened Barnsley, whose head coach Paul Heckingbottom signed a new contract this week, have won just one of their last 15 league games.

And they have now lost on 11 consecutive visits to QPR, where the Tykes have not won since 1950.

But they were the better side for much of the first half and would have gone ahead just before the interval had keeper Alex Smithies not produced a brilliant save to claw away Adam Hammill’s effort.

Rangers boss Ian Holloway said: “We scored a great goal, we kept a clean sheet – it’s a brilliant three points.

“We didn’t play that well in the first half but we relaxed a little in the second half and we were a lot better.”

Heckingbottom said: “We didn’t score when we were on top first half – we should’ve capitalised on that.

“And even after that, it took a worldie goal from Josh Scowen to win the game for them.”