Mark Warburton savours second-half fightback as QPR beat Luton

QPR boss Mark Warburton praised his side’s second-half display as they came back from 1-0 down to beat play-off rivals Luton 2-1 at Kenilworth Road.

The Hatters had led through Cameron Jerome’s 37th-minute goal but a penalty from Andre Gray 10 minutes after the break and then Rob Dickie’s late winner saw Warburton’s men leapfrog their hosts and sit fourth.

He said: “It was three very important points for us.

“An excellent second-half performance – first half I thought we were hurried, didn’t get the ball down, thought the balance second half was much better, matched their physicality, a lot of balls won aerially, we stepped in and looked a good team second half.

“It was an important goal, a really important goal after being on a run of below-par form. We’ve had a massive dip and people have been writing us off, now we’re fourth in the table.

“They’re a very, very hard team to beat home and away, especially here, but you have to match them with their physicality and their pace and power and then you have to apply the gameplan and second half we got it right.

“It’s amazing how fickle some people are, some said we would be lucky to finish mid-table and it was doom and gloom, now everybody’s suddenly jumping around.

“There’s a lot of points to play for, 30 points in our case and teams above us have played more games, so don’t form an opinion on us too early.”

The visitors went close in the first period, Moses Odubajo denied by James Shea, before Elijah Adebayo’s goal for Luton was ruled out for offside.

Town went ahead on 37 minutes though, Jerome’s snapshot from 22 yards going through Rangers keeper David Marshall who should have done much better.

After the break, Allan Campbell’s effort was beaten away by Marshall and QPR