Sheff Utd 2 - 0 Bristol City
Sheffield United shrugged off a slow start to maintain their push for the Championship play-offs at Bristol City's expense.
Chris Iwelumo showed some promising early touches on his City debut, but United gradually grew in authority.
City keeper Dean Gerken pulled off some excellent saves, but was powerless to stop Henri Camara's vicious second-half effort from nestling in the top corner.
Darius Henderson nodded in Jamie Ward's cross on the hour to seal the points.
The win, United's first in five games, leaves the Blades a point adrift of sixth-placed Leicester City, who have played two games fewer.
City, meanwhile, are without a victory since mid-January and have now conceded 13 goals in their last six games.
Sheffield United manager Kevin Blackwell:
"I thought everyone played really, really well.
"We used the ball intelligently and moved well off it. When you see us go out and look like that then it makes you realise our biggest problem this season is going to be keeping everybody fit.
"If we can do that then we've got every chance.
"We are trying to build something and the boys have shown out there what they can do."
Bristol City manager Gary Johnson:
"We didn't do enough to give ourselves a chance to win the game and the the first goal killed us.
"Our confidence is a bit low at the moment and it just seemed to drain - that's where we are.
"We've been drawing a lot, especially away from home, and now we're getting our fair share of defeats.
"But we've got two home games now and hopefully we can get a bit of confidence going with our fans behind us."
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Coventry 1 - 0 QPR
Gary Deegan's early strike was enough to stretch Coventry's unbeaten run to five matches, while QPR are now nine games without a win in any competition.
Deegan struck his first goal for the club early on, a shot into the bottom corner that left Rangers goalkeeper Carl Ikeme rooted to the spot.
QPR pressed either side of half time, with Lee Cook forcing Keiren Westwood to save from a free-kick.
Cook also flashed a shot across the goal, but the visitors could not level.
Coventry manager Chris Coleman:
"I anticipated that it wasn't going to be a classic but we got the job done.
"We said to them at half-time that it might be one of those games where we just had to dig in and get a result.
"This win puts us within six points of the top six and eight points off the bottom three so we are on the up."
QPR manager Mick Harford:
"You run out of words to say when you are on a run like this because you don't get the rub of the green.
"You are always under pressure as a manager. You are judged on results. I would prefer to play poorly and win, that's what we need to do at the moment.
"I don't think we deserved to lose because they had one shot on target in the whole game and it took a deflection. It's my job to pick the players up but the spirit is good."
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