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Queens Park Rangers have been crowned as Goal.com UK's Team of the Month for February.
The Goal.com UK team were asked to put forward their views on which club should be given the honour, and after a tough battle with Arsenal, Birmingham City and Swansea, it was Neil Warnock's side that was chosen as the most impressive team of the month.
QPR have lost only three league matches all season, and are powering their way towards the Championship title and a promotion to the Premier League. And an unbeaten February only adds to their cause.
Warnock is keeping his feet on the ground, but admitted that his top of the table side are looking to translate their success into achievements by securing promotion.
"I've told the lads that they should be playing with a smile on their faces because we have the right recipe here now," Warnock said.
"We have the grit to battle when we need to but we have the ability to win games well too. You don't get many moments in football when it comes together like that.
"We're not getting carried away because we have a long way to go...but if we can keep getting that consistency and keep getting results in games like this, then we are well on the way."
This is also the first time that a team has won this award twice during the course of a season, since the west Londoners did so in September last year as well.
2-0 v Portsmouth (home) - Taarabt 59, Hill 73
1-0 v Reading (away) - Routledge 82
1-1 v Nottingham Forest (home) - Smith 16
1-1 v Preston North End (away) - Helguson 37
2-0 v Ipswich Town (home) - Hill 77, Helguson 83
3-0 v Middlesbrough (away) - Helguson 41, 61, Taarabt pen 68
Honourable mentions
Swansea - The Welsh outfit lost just once in February, which came against Cardiff City as Craig Bellamy scored the only goal of the game. But every other match that they played resulted in a win, with particular emphasis on the seven-goal thriller against Middlesbrough. Brendan Rodgers' men are now second in the Championship.
Birmingham City - Won their first trophy in almost 50 years by beating Arsenal, with a late goal deciding the fate of the tie that had - at the time - looked like it would go into extra-time. It came as a pleasantly positive birthday gift to owner Carson Yeung. They have also had a positive run in the league, where a loss to Newcastle United was their only defeat of the month. They are also in the quarter-finals of the FA Cup.
Arsenal - The Gunners had a very positive month that saw them not only maintain their title chase, but also secure a 2-1 win over Barcelona in the Champions League. Their inability to end a six-year trophy drought against Birmingham arguably caused them to slip from being the prime contenders of this award.
West Ham - Their push for survival is finally taking some shape as a victory over Liverpool sees them in good stead to defy the odds and retain their Premier League status.
Leicester City - Four victories and a draw in six games makes for a decent set of results, which has now taken the side to seventh place in the Championship - two points adrift of the last available play-off spot.
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