Birmingham City 0-0 Queens Park Rangers

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QPR (three goals) and Birmingham City (four goals) are the two lowest-scoring sides in the Championship

Championship strugglers Birmingham City and Queens Park Rangers played out a disappointing stalemate at St Andrews.

Tomer Hemed and Toni Leistner headed over for Rangers in the first half, while Blues' Jota had a penalty appeal turned down and Lukas Jutkiewicz had a shot blocked.

Lee Camp made three great saves after the break, twice denying Hemed and once stopping a Luke Freeman effort.

Rangers could have won it in the last minute, but Matt Smith hit the post after a goalmouth scramble.

The result leaves QPR in the bottom three while Birmingham - who also have four points - move up to 19th on goal difference.

Neither side could find a moment of quality to make the breakthrough, although both managers will be pleased that their sides each recorded a second clean sheet of the season.

Birmingham remain without a win this season going into the international break and their one shot on target in the whole game will concern boss Garry Monk.

Birmingham City boss Garry Monk said:

"We badly need that first win as we know that in previous games we have done more than enough to have got three points.

"Against Rangers it was a scrappy game and there was no real opportunity to get our momentum going. It probably suited the away team.

"It wasn't from lack of effort and looking at the six games so far it will not deter us from what we are doing."

Queens Park Rangers manager Steve McClaren said:

"First and foremost, it was great to keep another clean sheet. After the West Brom game (a 7-1 defeat), it was something we had to address.

"We controlled the game and, on another day, could have won it with the opportunities we had.

"Credit to the players, they've worked so hard on the training pitch. It was as good an away performance as I've seen in a while from a team. Joe Lumley didn't really have a save to make."

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