Queens Park Rangers 2-1 Bournemouth: R's secure fourth-straight win
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Todd Kane (right) netted his second goal of the season to secure all three points for QPR
Todd Kane snatched a late winner as QPR beat Bournemouth to clinch their fourth consecutive Championship victory.
Wing-back Kane latched onto substitute Albert Adomah's cross and drilled home seven minutes from time to seal the points.
On-loan Fulham midfielder Stefan Johansen had fired Rangers into a 58th-minute lead, pouncing on a defensive error to score.
But Cherries forward Shane Long levelled 10 minutes later with his first goal in almost a year, scrambling in from close range.
Bournemouth remain sixth in the table, but Cardiff City and Middlesbrough are now three points behind the Dorset side after both clubs won on Saturday.
QPR climb three places to 13th and are 10 points off the play-off places.
The visitors looked the more likely to break the deadlock in the first half, but they were denied by two impressive stops from Rangers goalkeeper Seny Dieng.
Dieng foiled Philip Billing after Jack Wilshere had split the home defence and then came to the rescue again with a one-on-one save when Long galloped into the box.
Both sides went close at the start of the second half, with Ilias Chair's free-kick picking out Yoann Barbet, whose looping header rattled the Bournemouth crossbar.
Adam Smith then put a chance wide for the Cherries - but the visitors' defensive lapse was punished soon afterwards when Johansen intercepted Chris Mepham's pass and stroked the ball beyond Asmir Begovic.
Substitute Sam Surridge set up Long's equaliser, heading down a Junior Stanislas cross for the Republic of Ireland international to score.
But QPR made changes of their own, with Macaulay Bonne setting up Adomah for the ball that led to Kane's late strike.
Bonne might have made certain of the points when Chris Willock teed him up twice, but fired both efforts straight at Begovic.
Defeat was Bournemouth's first in five games in all competitions since Jonathan Woodgate was placed in caretaker charge following the sacking of head coach Jason Tindall.
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QPR boss Mark Warburton told BBC Radio London:
"It's a good run of form but this division can bite you so easily.
"We will enjoy the result but it is all about Preston now. The moment you start living on past games you are in trouble.
"We are going to start seeing fatigue and odd results come in because of the demands placed on players.
"Bournemouth are a highly-talented squad so the players deserve enormous credit. It is a really good win."
Bournemouth caretaker manager Jonathan Woodgate:
"I thought we played well, especially in the first half when we were different class.
"We didn't take our chances and then we made a couple of errors at the back. We weren't clinical enough in both boxes.
"It's really frustrating, but the team did play well. I'm satisfied with the performance but not the result."
On the club's managerial vacancy:
"I have no idea what's happening with it. We'll just have to see what the board say next.
"Obviously it can be unsettling for the players and fans, but there's nothing we can really do about it.
"I've just got to get on with it, keep my own counsel and do my best for the club."