Veterans midfielder Jack Colback climbed off the bench to fire QPR to a 2-1 victory over Blackburn.
The 35-year-old hit his first goal in just over a year, as Rangers returned in winning ways after two direct defeats.
Michael Frey put the Rangers ahead of just five minutes, but Rovers thought they had secured a point through the penalty of the second half Tyrhys Dolana.
However, Colbackov Thunderbolt put a recess in Blackburn’s Play-off offer, although they are still fifth, while Rangers are now only three points in the top six.
The hosts took the lead when Kenneth Paal won a free kick in the corner.
Ilias Chair shook in the cross that Frey met with her head for her last guest appearance of Aynsley Pears for her seventh goal season.
Roves almost equalized four minutes later when Ryan Hedges and Andreas Weimann combined themselves to follow Owen Beck, who knocked down his shot against the crossbar.
Makhtar Gueye pulled out a loose ball and crossed low for her dolla, whose drive pulled out of the top corner, the guard of Rangers Paul Nardi.
The chair had two chances to double the lead before halftime, first sitting on Danny Batth on the back before drilling in a low shot that skipped an inch wide and then forcing another block from the pear.
Instead, visitors gave the equalizer six minutes in the second half.
Rangers failed to clean the low ball in the area, and the clumsy challenge of Koki Saita on Callum Brittain gave Ref James Linington a little choice, except to assign the sentence.
Without the named criminal player on the Rovers field, it was discussed who should take it, but Dolan eventually won the quarrel and turned confidently.
Rangers thought they should have had a punishment when Captain Jimmy Dunne – back to the side after a last day in Sheffield United – Batth knocked down, but Linington did not agree.
However, Rangers won it with the remaining 14 minutes when the ball fell to Colback after a chaotic fight in the penalty area.
Former midfielder Sunderland and Newcastle pulled the trigger from 18 meters and, although the pears were both hands on it, the ball entered the roof of the net to secure three points for the hoops.
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