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Bradley Dack scored his ninth goal in 14 appearances this season for Blackburn

A late Blackburn Rovers penalty was enough to give them all three points in a tense victory over QPR in the Championship.

Bradley Dack beat Rangers goalkeeper Joe Lumley from the spot to give the hosts a deserved lead after defender Josh Scowen brought down striker Ben Brereton in the penalty area.

QPR had come the closest to an opener with 17 minutes remaining when Nahki Wells' volley from a Luke Freeman corner was tipped over the bar by Rovers keeper Jayson Leutwiler.

The away side had won their previous three matches but offered little in response after the goal as Blackburn held on for victory.

The hosts could have opened the scoring as early as the first minute of the match when forward Danny Graham saw his close-range effort well saved by QPR goalkeeper Joe Lumley.

Graham came close again at the end of the first half, dragging his shot wide after getting past the Rangers' defence.

Tony Mowbray's side, who were unbeaten in their past 13 matches against QPR in all competitions dating back to October 1999, were gifted a penalty after poor defending from Scowen and move to eighth in the table.

Defeat sees Steve McClaren's QPR slip to 11th in the table.

QPR manager Steve McClaren:

"We should never have lost the game. I do think we did enough to win it.

"We weren't good enough on transition or with the ball, didn't create enough. but they were never going to score.

"I thought in terms of defending with the team, their attitude was magnificent again and that was the only way they were going to score, with a bad decision from a referee.

"It was never a penalty, I have seen it. The linesman an actually never gave it, he walked away and the referee from a bad position from behind gave the penalty.

"It's a bad decision which has cost us a point and continuation of our run."

Blackburn Rovers manager Tony Mowbray:

"It was a pretty poor horrible football match I would have to say I don't think we should be trying to disguise that fact.

"It lacked a bit of quality it looked like it was going to be zero, zero. Sometimes you have to win ugly, today was very much a win-ugly football match.

"It's a very warm feeling after what was a frustrating game for long periods.

"We'll take the points and look forward to another home game next weekend."