Norwich City 1-0 Queens Park Rangers: Hwang Ui-jo hits winner for Canaries

Hwang's winner was the first he has scored at Carrow Road since joining on loan from Nottingham Forest

Hwang Ui-jo scored the only goal as Norwich beat QPR to claim back-to-back wins for the first time since August.

The South Korea striker, on loan from Nottingham Forest, collected Gabriel Sara's ball and fired home midway through the first half.

Hwang's winner ended a run of three consecutive defeats at Carrow Road, while QPR are without win in 11 games.

The Canaries climb to 13th place, with Rangers still 23rd and six points adrift of safety.

While Rangers enjoyed early possession, they were unable to convert that into scoring opportunities and only Steve Cook's goalline clearance denied Norwich's Jack Stacey as his looping effort sailed over Asmir Begovic.

But Begovic was exposed again soon afterwards when Sara's neatly judged pass picked out Hwang, who controlled the ball and slammed it across the goalkeeper into the far corner.

The visitors responded positively, with Lyndon Dykes' header off target from a corner and Osman Kakay bringing a save from Canaries keeper George Long.

Despite half chances for Hwang and Sara just before the break, Norwich never looked like increasing their lead, but they did enough to keep QPR at bay and record a rare clean sheet.

Ilias Chair, back in the Hoops side after suspension, went close with a couple of attempts from distance, while Kenneth Paal's shot whistled across the face of goal.

Sam Field drove an effort off target in added time, but Rangers - who have found the net just 11 times this season - were unable to find an equaliser.

Norwich head coach David Wagner told BBC Radio Norfolk:

"The most reliable stats in football are goals and points, and if you look at our record you see what has to dramatically improve and where we are OK.

"We have to make sure we're more difficult to break down and, if this means we are less entertaining, OK, because we have the quality to score goals and this was exactly the case today.

"Big credit to the players - they worked their socks off and looked very solid. Yes, it wasn't the most entertaining game but how they defended was just great.

"We have a lot of work to do, don't get me wrong, but back-to-back wins after that bad period is very important for the confidence and togetherness of the group as well."

QPR head coach Marti Cifuentes told BBC Radio London 94.9:

"I think we played against a very good team with a lot of good individual players and we matched them. I never felt we were much worse than them at any moment in the game.

"The team competed well, but competing well also means to not concede sloppy goals as we did today. I think we were in a good moment before the goal.

"Maybe Norwich created less chances than us, maybe there was less momentum for them but they scored one goal and we didn't, that's why they won.

"When a team's in the situation we're in, we need to make sure those moments don't change the whole game."

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