The Football Pink

Fourteen minutes and forty seconds. That's how long it took Richard Kone to score a hat-trick at Loftus Road, the quickest in English football's top four divisions since Opta started keeping records in 2004. Before Saturday he hadn't scored since April.

Swansea arrived with the best defence in the Championship. They'd conceded eight goals all season and went home having let in five.

The first came inside two minutes. Stephen Welsh lost the ball weakly to Kwame Poku in the centre circle, and Paul Smyth surged into the space and squared it for Kone, who was unmarked. Seven minutes later Kealey Adamson won the ball off Melker Widell, Poku swung in a left-footed cross, and Kone headed it into the far corner.

Then Lawrence Vigouroux brought Smyth down, picking up a booking for it, and Kone rolled in the penalty. Three-nil, and the 17,504 at Loftus Road could hardly believe what they were watching.

Swansea had their moments

It could have looked different. Adam Idah's 20-yard drive was tipped on to the bar by a diving Pierce Charles, and Charles denied Widell just before the third went in. But QPR were ruthless with everything that came their way. Jimmy Dunne rose to head in Harvey Vale's corner in first-half stoppage time to make it 4-0, and the game was over before the interval.

Vitor Matos changed two players at half-time and Swansea saw most of the ball afterwards, without ever looking like getting back in it. Dunne made it five with four minutes left, sticking out a leg to steer Kone's wayward shot into the net. There was a warm welcome back for Karamoko Dembélé, too, ten months after his knee injury.

Disappointed for all of us. It's a performance that's below our level and lower than our standards.

Vitor Matos, Swansea head coach

How the players played today, it was just outstanding. The players deserve all the credit today.

Julien Stephan, QPR head coach

Kone told the BBC he'd be keeping the match ball on top of a new cupboard he'd just bought. He's earned the space.