Queens Park Rangers 0-4 Nottingham Forest: Rangers suffer late collapse after red card

Nottingham Forest moved up to fourth in the Championship as they beat 10-man Queens Park Rangers 4-0.

Tobias Figueiredo put Forest ahead early on as his towering header looped into the net from Joe Lolley's corner.

Rangers' hopes of a first win in six games took a blow when Lee Wallace was sent off after pulling down Lolley just outside the area in the 50th minute.

But Forest put Rangers to the sword as they scored three times in the final 10 minutes - Lewis Grabban and substitutes Joao Carvalho and Alfa Semedo polishing off the win.

The loss sees Rangers - who have now taken just two points from a possible 18 - drop to 16th place, while Forest are level on points with third-placed Fulham and five points off Leeds United in second.

Grabban slotted in from close range after Sammy Ameobi's excellent cross from the left while Carvalho turned on the magic for the third as he nutmegged a defender before finishing his run into the box with a shot with outside of his right foot.

Semedo rubbed salt in QPR's wounds two minutes later as Matty Cash's shot was parried and Ameobi squared the loose ball to Semedo for a tap-in.

Rangers had chances - Josh Scowen's header from 10 yards soon after the red card went just wide while Ilias Chair had a long-range effort beaten away in the first half.

Queens Park Rangers manager Mark Warburton told BBC Radio London:

"I thought the red card was exceptionally harsh, I've watched it back four or five times and I see what I thought was a yellow card, and it changes the dynamic of the game.

"We were in that game until the 81st minute and I can defend us as a group of players and staff up to the 81st minute, from there on that's not QPR.

"Basic schoolboy errors, poor backpasses, missed clearances, missed headers, very, very poor goals to give away. We don't get beaten at home full stop, let alone by four nil.

"[The red card] was not the cause of conceding three late goals, however it had to change the dynamic of the game, we're one man down chasing the game."

Nottingham Forest manager Sabri Lamouchi told BBC Radio Nottingham:

"I'm so proud about this result and this performance.

"The second goal was really important as with one more player we could defend and wait until the end of the game.

"We played offensively, we played at times quickly and we missed some easy passes, but it was a great result and a great performance."