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City Defeated By QPR In The Capital

We were beaten 4-1 by Queens Park Rangers at MATRADE Loftus Road on Saturday afternoon.

2025-12-20T16:59+00:00

by Sam Stevens

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20 Dec, 2025

from MATRADE Loftus Road

City Defeated By QPR In The Capital

We were beaten 4-1 by Queens Park Rangers at MATRADE Loftus Road on Saturday afternoon.

Sam Stevens

2025-12-20T16:59+00:00

City Defeated By QPR In The Capital

We were beaten 4-1 by Queens Park Rangers at MATRADE Loftus Road on Saturday afternoon.

Sam Stevens

2025-12-20T16:59+00:00

City Defeated By QPR In The Capital

We were beaten 4-1 by Queens Park Rangers at MATRADE Loftus Road on Saturday afternoon.

Sam Stevens

2025-12-20T16:59+00:00

City Defeated By QPR In The Capital

We were beaten 4-1 by Queens Park Rangers at MATRADE Loftus Road on Saturday afternoon.

Sam Stevens

2025-12-20T16:59+00:00

Heading into the west London encounter on the back of collecting seven points from a possible nine, that momentum couldn’t be continued by Martí Cifuentes’ men.

Koki Saito, Richard Kone, Karamoko Dembélé and Amadou Mbengue got the goals for the Hoops before half-time, with Academy graduate Silko Thomas’ first senior goal for the Foxes narrowing the arrears late on.

This defeat leaves us 13th in the Sky Bet Championship table, with Watford due at King Power Stadium on Boxing Day (3pm GMT kick-off).

QPR start quickly

It took Rangers – themselves having enjoyed some good results in December – just two minutes to open the scoring.

The deadlock was broken when Rumarn Burrell burst down the right flank, locating Saito at the far post, with the Japan international nodding it in for 1-0.

Saito was a menace throughout the opening stages in Shepherd’s Bush, later forcing a strong stop from Jakub Stolarczyk to keep out his powerful hit from the edge of the box.

The hosts open up a lead

Saito again went close 20 minutes in, firing over from inside the six-yard box after industrious wing play from Dembélé down the right flank.

The lead was doubled in the 29th minute, a high ball into the box deflecting unfortunately off Ben Nelson’s leg and into the path of Kone to fire into the roof of the net.

A third for QPR came with 33 minutes on the clock, Dembélé taking a touch on the 18-yard line, after it was slid across to him by Burrell, later arrowing it into the near bottom corner.

Second-half changes

It was in fact 4-0 before the interval with Mbengue’s possible cross flying in at the near post, giving Leicester a mountain to climb in the capital.

Kone went close again after the restart, positioned just off-centre to the left in the box, but Stolarczyk was well placed to get a hand to it. Luke Thomas, meanwhile, nodded a header wide for the Foxes with Cifuentes making five changes throughout the second 45 minutes. Among them were Aaron Ramsey and Jeremy Monga, back from injury.

When a handball gave City a late penalty, Bobby De Cordova-Reid’s effort from 12 yards came back off the post, but Silko Thomas was there in the 82nd minute to apply the finish on a frustrating day for Leicester in the capital.

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