Queens Park Rangers 0-4 Blackburn Rovers: Visitors end four-game losing run with thumping win
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Iceland midfielder Arnor Sigurdsson has scored four goals for Blackburn since his loan move from CSKA Moscow
Blackburn Rovers ended a run of four straight Championship defeats to inflict more home misery on struggling Queens Park Rangers.
Two goals in five first-half minutes from Tyrhys Dolan and Arnor Sigurdsson set Blackburn on their way before Sigurdsson with his second and Sammie Szmodics added two more after the break as they moved up to 17th.
QPR have now taken just two points from their past six games and they remain in the bottom three.
They have only one win in 20 league games at Loftus Road stretching back to October last year.
Sinclair Armstrong had an effort saved by Rovers goalkeeper Leopold Wahlstedt in the first minute, but it was not long before QPR were suffering a familiar feeling.
Joe Rankin-Costello advanced to the byeline and pulled it back for Dolan to score his first goal in 20 matches.
Before the home side could recover, it was two as Szmodics squared for Sigurdsson to slide his effort past Asmir Begovic.
The Iceland midfielder then settled the game just before the hour mark when he received a pass from Dolan and fired home from just inside the area.
There was still time for Szmodics to run through and stroke home a fourth following a bad mistake as QPR suffered their worst home defeat since November 2019.
It capped another bad day for QPR manager Gareth Ainsworth as his team have conceded 11 goals in their past four home games, where they have taken one point from a possible 15 so far this season.
QPR manager Gareth Ainsworth told BBC Radio London:
"That is not good enough from QPR. I have to apologise to the fans.
"The players have given their all, but it's not good enough. We've got to make that all better, I've got to make my all better if that's the problem.
"We need to be mentally tougher. We need a winning mentality amongst the boys.
"For way too long, this club has been second best. Look at this, one win at home in a year, it's just not good enough. There's an inherent problem there that we have to solve."
Blackburn Rovers manager Jon Dahl Tomasson told BBC Radio Lancashire:
"We're thrilled with the result and the performance. Going away and winning in the Championship is not easy and the boys did a brilliant job.
"If you look at the four games we lost, we could have won all four and we played some great football.
"So it's a case of you keep doing the right things and stick to the plan, we played very well and got the result."
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