Barry Bannan thought he had stolen the points for Sheffield Wednesday with his injury-time goal
Two dramatic injury-time goals saw Sheffield Wednesday and Queens Park Rangers both earn a point from a 1-1 draw at Hillsborough.
Wednesday thought they had stolen victory when captain Barry Bannan scored via the underside of the crossbar in the 93rd minute.
However, six minutes into added time, substitute Alfie Lloyd snatched a draw for Rangers when he bundled home following an enormous goalmouth scramble.
The draw leaves Wednesday 20th in the table whilst Rangers remain 12th.
The hosts started the better and could have been ahead after just two minutes when the impressive Josh Windass fired a dangerous ball across the box but Ige Ugbo was unable to find a telling touch to convert in front of goal.
Wednesday debutant Olaf Kobacki then went close but his effort stung the palms of R’s goalkeeper Paul Nardi.
Three minutes later Windass played in ex-Southampton full-back Yan Valery who squared for Ugbo but he was unable to keep his effort down.
Rangers forward Michael Frey came closest for the visitors in the first half but he was only able to direct his header straight at Wednesday keeper James Beadle following a cross from Brazilian right-back Hevertton Santos.
The visitors improved in the second half and half-time substitute Paul Smyth sent a dipping effort just over Beadle’s crossbar.
Japanese substitute Koki Saito then cut inside onto his right foot but his curling effort went just past the far post for the R's.
The game looked to be petering out to a scoreless draw but three minutes into injury time, Bannan thought he had won it for the hosts after the ball fell to the Wednesday captain on the edge of the box and he fired home past Nardi via the underside of the bar to send the home fans into raptures.
Marti Cifuentes' side refused to lie down though and Jimmy Dunne, Steve Cook and Saito all saw efforts blocked by some last-ditch Wednesday defending before the ball fell to Lloyd, who eventually fired the ball high past Beadle to ensure the visitors went back to West London with a share of the spoils.
Sheffield Wednesday head coach Danny Rohl told BBC Radio Sheffield:
“We have to talk about the situation, the way we come to the corner. I think it starts with a foul on [Anthony] Musaba. We didn’t get the free-kick. Then we make the foul. We cannot do.
"You have to stay behind, nothing happens. And I think by the corner, I don’t really know what happens, [there were] a lot of players around.
"The performance for me was a huge step forward. We created chances, we had ball winning situations, we were much more compact."
QPR boss Martin Cifuentes speaking to BBC Radio London:
“It was a game of two halves. I think definitely Sheffield [Wednesday] were better than us in the first half. We miss a little bit of quality in our build-up. We had some unnecessary turnovers that changed the momentum.
"We were never on the floor. Even if we are two goals down, three goals down, this team will never give up.
"That is a very important thing for us, the resilience, because we know in this league, not even the best teams in this league will manage to gather 95 minutes of momentum. That doesn’t exist in this league.”
