Mark Warburton explains the importance of QPR's trip to Sheffield United

Queens Park Rangers manager Mark Warburton has outlined the importance of his side's trip to Sheffield United as they look to return to winning ways. The R's have won just one of their last six matches - picking up just three points from a possible 18 available.

It is a run of results that has seen them drop down from third to ninth and currently sit three points off the Championship play-off places. They will be keen to bounce back and reignite their promotion hopes ahead of what is a pivotal final few weeks of the season.

Warburton's side fell to a 2-0 defeat against league leaders Fulham on the weekend courtesy of a Aleksandar Mitrović brace. With Luton, Middlesbrough and Nottingham Forest also in action in midweek, Warburton knows how crucial it is that his side turn up and come away with a positive result.

"Under the lights at a packed out Bramall Lane is always a great place to play football, but we go there with a lot at stake, and we have to make sure we produce a positive performance," he told www.qpr.co.uk.

"We were frustrated in the way Saturday ended, but we have looked back on the game, looked at what went wrong, and we have a big game now which is a chance for us to go and impress.

"As a unit we know what we need to do, like always we must take confidence from certain aspects of Saturday, I hate losing a game of football, but I thought we were looking more like ourselves against a top team, and we must make sure we take that confidence into the game on Tuesday night.

"We must impose ourselves, do our jobs, take responsibility, and get the job done.

"Right now, everyone is playing each other, so it’s quite fluid in the sense of what is required our focus must be one game at a time. We have some big games