BRISTOL CITY No honours for Nigel

NIGEL PEARSON was in no mood to celebrate his 500th game as a manager after his Bristol City side produced a woeful display.

QPR were two up inside 22 minutes. For the first Ilias Chair took advantage of poor marking to head in Todd Kane’s 11th-minute cross. More dreadful defending allowed Rob Dickie to fire in after Yoann Barbet’s shot had come back off a post.

From there the afternoon went from bad to worse for Pearson, who lost Adam Nagy and Zak Vyner to head injuries, sustained in separate incidents.

Pearson said: “It’s important that when we cannot dominate games our us by.” Hoops boss Mark collective work ethic and Warburton said: “There are positive mentality gets us such fine lines between through. That wasn’t the success and failure in the case today. Championship, which is

“The second half what makes it so exciting. performance was honest “We played really well at and we had home to Bristol City this chances, but season and lost the game. overall we let But today we got what the game pass we deserved.”

BRISTOL CITY: Bentley 6, Hunt 5, Mariappa 5, Kalas 6, Sessegnon 5, Vyner 5 (Pearson 36, 6), Palmer 6, Bakinson 5 (Semenyo 23, 6), Nagy 5 (Lansbury 31, 6), Wells 5, Diedhiou 5.

QPR: Dieng 6, Dickie 8, De Wijs 7 (Kakay 62, 6), Barbet 7, Kane 7, Johansen 7, Field 7 (Bonne 74, 6), Wallace 7, Willock 7 (Adomah 82), Chair 8 (Thomas 82), Austin 6 (Bail 74, 6).

MAN OF THE MATCH: Rob Dickie. The Rangers defender was calm at the back and scored an important goal.

REFEREE: Tony Harrington 7.