Goals from Richard Kone and Paul Smyth completed a second-half fightback as QPR snatched all three points at Bristol City.

Emil Riis scored his fourth goal of the season off a Neto Borges pass, giving the Robins the lead at halftime.

Rangers drew level when Kone took down replacement Harvey Vale’s ball and blasted into the roof of the net.

Northern Ireland international Smyth, another substitute, then headed in Jimmy Dunne’s cross to extend the Hoops’ unbeaten streak to six games.

Both teams came into the game off the back of midweek draws, with the visitors making six changes to their starting lineup, while City manager Gerhard Struber made one change, bringing Mark Sykes in place of Ross McCrorie on the right flank.

Rangers threatened in patches, with half-chances for Koki Saito and Kader Dembele, but City generated the better openings, and Scott Twine should have scored from close range after latching onto a Riis cutback.

However, the Danish forward broke the stalemate when Borges recovered Sykes’ overhit ball on the left wing and, as the QPR defence hesitated, produced a superb cross for Riis to head into the net.

City applied pressure at the opening of the second half, but were unable to extend their lead. Rob Atkinson’s last-ditch sliding block stopped Kone after Saito passed him through on goal.

The R’s fortunes changed after the arrivals of Smyth and Vale, with the latter quickly supplying a cross for Kone, who controlled and fired home the equaliser, his fourth goal since joining the club from Wycombe in August.

The home side appeared to have a better chance of winning, with Anis Mehmeti going close and Atkinson headed a corner just wide of Paul Nardi’s goal.

Smyth, who scored from the halfway line in QPR’s 1-1 draw at Ashton Gate last season, settled the game by nodding Dunne’s ball back across Radek Vitek to give his team their fourth win in six games.