Leicester City 1-0 QPR

Yossi Benayoun pulled up with a groin injury to suggest he will play no part in QPR’s Easter Monday clash with Watford.
Benoit Assou-Ekotto certainly won’t after he landed with two yellows that produced the long walk, and the second Ranger this season to see red against Leicester after Joey Barton was the first in the 1-0 home defeat back in December.
Before he got his marching orders, the Cameroon World Cup hopeful was outstripped by David Nugent on the right to cut in and beyond Rob Green’s right hand for the game’s only goal on 68 minutes.
After this defeat, Rangers still need one more win to make sure of a play-off place.
Boss Harry Redknapp would protest vehemently, but it looked as if this Rangers side had the look of sacrificial lambs.
Ravel Morrison was left on the bench for the first time to go with rare starts for Modibo Maiga and Yun Suk-Young. Richard Dunne was on the bench and Charlie Austin and Clint Hill were left out all together.
However, Rs had their chances, with Maiga and Niko Kranjcar coming closest for Hoops, but chances came at a premium.
Maiga's low-left drag past the post took a touch from Kasper Schmeichel on its way. Yun tried from distance, and this time the ball stuck to the keeper’s gloves after a quiet start.
Kranjcar was on the end of a give-and-go with Maiga and this time the Foxes custodian needed to palm over 15 yards.
There was a double stab by Kranjcar in a bout of pinball that saw Leicester clear the box more by luck than judgement.
But at the other end Andy King was in the clear six yards out but was too tucked up to hit anything but a weak shot at Green.
Assou-Ekotto wrapped his left leg around Riyad Mahrez in a challenge deemed worthy of the game’s first yellow.
But the game’s first goal was only prevented by a desperate last-ditch lunge by Nedum Onuoha after King had rounded Green having picked Henry’s pocket on the edge of the box.
Kranjcar was second into the book for a challenge on Danny Drinkwater, but the Croatian was nearly in Rs good books when he darted down the left in time added on and laid off a ball for Maiga to hit first time.
The shot was destined for the back of the net but it took the slightest of deflections off Wes Morgan’s back, and to add insult to injury - there was no corner to follow.
Rs got a bit of luck back when Kranjcar came sliding in from behind to take out the same player as he did for the first caution.
Fortunately, referee Scott Duncan reckoned the midfielder got a piece of the ball that he clearly didn’t when seen on playback.
O’Neil did see yellow a bit later, and Maiga wasted a decent chance when he dithered on the ball in acres of space on the right.
Onuoha was the pick of Rs bunch by a country mile, but Assou-Ekotto’s rash challenge on King left his manager quietly seething on the touchline and looking to Monday to pick up the pieces.

QPR: 4-1-3-1-1: Green, Simpson, Hughes, Onuoha, Assou-Ekotto; Henry; Benayoun (Wright-Phillips 46), O’Neil, Yun; Kranjcar (Morrison 83); Maiga (Zamora 72); subs not used: Murphy, Dunne, Keane, Donaldson.