Queens Park Rangers 1-2 Norwich City: result and report
Championship · Thursday 1 January 2026
Result
Queens Park Rangers 1-2 Norwich City
Championship · Thursday 1 January 2026, 15:00 UTC · half-time 0-0
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Queens Park Rangers 1-2 Norwich City: match report
Queens Park Rangers lost to Norwich City 1-2 in the Championship on Thursday 1 January 2026. The half-time score was 0-0.
Josh Sargent opened the scoring in the 46th minute. Queens Park Rangers's goal came from Amadou Salif Mbengue (90+9'). Norwich City scored through Josh Sargent (46') and Jovon Makama (90+6').
Discipline: Queens Park Rangers received no yellow cards; Norwich City received 3 yellow cards.
Going into the game Queens Park Rangers were 10th on 35 points from 24 and Norwich City 23rd on 21 points from 24. Queens Park Rangers went on to finish that season 15th with 58 points, and Norwich City 9th with 65.
Queens Park Rangers lined up in a 4-4-2 and Norwich City in a 4-2-3-1. The highest match rating in our data went to Josh Sargent of Norwich City (7.7), ahead of Amadou Mbengue (7.3).
Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 1 Queens Park Rangers win, 5 draws and 4 for Norwich City.
Key events
- 45+1'Yellow card · Ben Chrisene
- 46'Goal · Josh Sargent
- 72'Yellow card · Vladan Kovačević
- 82'Yellow card · Jack Stacey
- 90+6'Goal · Jovon Makama
- 90+9'Goal · Amadou Salif Mbengue
Head-to-head
Team news
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Queens Park Rangers line-up (4-4-2)
Paul Nardi, Amadou Mbengue, Jimmy Dunne, Steve Cook, Rhys Norrington-Davies, Karamoko Dembélé, Nicolas Madsen, Isaac Hayden, Paul Smyth, Richard Kone, Rumarn Burrell
Norwich City line-up (4-2-3-1)
Vladan Kovacevic, Kellen Fisher, Ruairi McConville, José Córdoba, Ben Chrisene, Kenny McLean, Pelle Mattsson, Matěj Jurásek, Jacob Wright, Oscar Schwartau, Josh Sargent