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as North End looked set to bounce back from defeats at West Brom and Fulham.

It looked even tougher for Rangers as Geoff Cameron was given a second yellow and his marching orders after bringing down Darnell Fisher with more than half an hour left to play.

But Manning’s super strike – a curving effort past keeper Declan Rudd – and the mercurial Ebere Eze’s 12th goal of the season proved decisive.

It meant that Mark

Warburton’s men chalked up their sixth league game without defeat, and gave the lie to their fans’ banner proclaiming, ‘We are QPR, we never win away’.

Warburton said: “I’m delighted with our reaction and second-half effort.”

But he admitted: “The first half was as bad as it has been all season. There were heated words between us all at the break because we had let ourselves down.

“But you saw the reaction and the goals followed – and all good ones too.”

Preston boss Alex Neil said:

PRESTON QPR 2 ........ Shots on Target ......... 3 7 ........ Shots off Target ......... 5 5 ................ Corners ................. 2 16 ................. Fouls .................. 12 4 ............... Offsides ................. 2 69.1.. Passing Success %.. 67.6 401 ....... Total Passes ........ 339 54.8 .... Possession % ..... 45.2 53.9..Territorial Adv %...46.1

“We just didn’t move the ball well enough and had little quality when we did.

”We gave their better players too much space and time in the second half, and we saw the result.

“Expectation here is something we are not used to. We must cope with it.”