Queens Park Rangers beat Cardiff City 2-1 in the Championship, thanks largely to a Rumarn Burrell brace. QPR led from the 36th minute and added a second early in the second half, then had to hold off a Cardiff reply.
Burrell opened the scoring in the 36th minute and made it 2-0 in the 53rd, with Ronnie Edwards providing the assist for the second. Cardiff pulled one back through Perry Ng in the 74th minute after a build-up involving Ollie Tanner, but QPR saw the game out from there.
The statistics underline how QPR won without controlling the ball. Cardiff had 63% possession and 510 accurate passes, but QPR had 20 total shots to Cardiff's nine, an expected goals figure of 2.09 to 0.60 and four big chances to one. Burrell's two goals proved the difference.
