Coventry score seven in QPR thrashing

Haji Wright was among Coventry's scorers

Coventry City celebrated a momentous weekend for the club by hammering seven goals past woeful Queens Park Rangers.

Haji Wright, Jack Rudoni and Victor Torp all scored twice and Brandon Thomas-Asante also netted in an emphatic triumph for the Sky Blues, who have scored 12 times in their past two Championship matches.

Richard Kone scored a stoppage-time consolation for Rangers - the striker's first goal since a recent move from Wycombe.

The home side's victory came just hours after they announced they had completed the purchase of their stadium, the Coventry Building Society Arena, describing it as a "pivotal moment" in their history.

This week also marks the 20th anniversary of City's first match at the ground - also a win over QPR (3-0) in August 2005.

Financial problems, homelessness, a drop to the fourth tier and serious doubt over the club's future followed in the subsequent years.

But the purchase of the stadium underlines the upturn in their fortunes and the victory continues impressive progress under boss Frank Lampard and will further raise hopes that Coventry can get back to the Premier League for the first time since relegation in 2001.

They were five up by half-time, with the first goal coming after a well-worked move in the 12th minute.

Centre-back Liam Kitching strolled into the Rangers half and passed to Torp, who in turn found Milan van Ewijk on the right and he played a first-time ball across to Wright, who netted from 12 yards out.

Worse followed for Rangers when they attempted to play the ball out from the back 11 minutes later as Kieran Morgan's horrendous attempted pass across to Steve Cook went straight to Rudoni, who teed up Thomas-Asante to fire past keeper Joe Walsh.

Morgan was again at fault as he played Karamoko Dembele into trouble and he was dispossessed by Matt Grimes, who drove forward and set up Rudoni to score with a shot that looped up and in after deflecting off Cook.

The fourth also came after Rangers had given the ball away. This time Thomas-Asante held off Cook and teed up Wright, who tucked away his second.

Boss Frank Lampard saw his team run riot in a totally one-sided game

Rudoni's low shot into the bottom corner from near the edge of the penalty area a couple of minutes before half-time made it five.

It was six a couple of minutes after the interval - again after some atrocious defending by QPR, who are still without a win under new boss Julien Stephan.

After Liam Morrison, Jimmy Dunne and Nicolas Madsen were all unable to properly clear their lines, Ephron Mason-Clark directed the ball back to Torp, whose shot ended up in the bottom corner despite Walsh managing to get a hand to it.

Torp needed no help for his second and Coventry's seventh - a glorious, curling 30-yard strike beyond Walsh and into the far corner.

Kone, on as a substitute, scored from close range for Rangers after Dembele's free-kick had been headed back across goal by Morrison.

'The onus was on us' - reaction

Coventry boss Frank Lampard told BBC CWR:

"It's a great day. This club has a great history and tradition and been through so many things. To make this feel our home is really special.

"I'm delighted for everybody. We have this officially as our home. Then the onus was on us to put in a performance and the boys certainly did that - from the first minute.

"It was a performance of quality, mentality and attitude. They were at it in every single way.

"We want to take the template of today. We won't always play with so many great things but we must always have the attitude and mentality we had today."

QPR head coach Julien Stephan told BBC London:

"I can promise one thing: it will be a completely different game next week against Charlton. We will react for sure next week.

"We did a lot of mistakes today. It's unacceptable. We will think about the next week and how we can react.

"This is a big challenge. This is the first time in my career I have to deal with a score like this, but in football you learn a lot.

"I just want to promise that next week it will be completely different and you will see a completely different team."