Queens Park Rangers' Championship survival was confirmed with victory over Nottingham Forest on Saturday, and manager Ian Holloway was a man clearly relieved his side will miss out on the final day drama.

Second-half goals from Conor Washington and Joel Lynch were enough to secure second-tier football for another season, incidentally pushing Forest closer to the abyss. 

It also ended a run of six straight defeats for the Loftus Road outfit, finally able to get off the 50-point mark they had been stuck on sine the end of March.

"This time of the season is squeaky bum time and the way things have been going over the past few weeks should we need to have felt relieved?" Holloway said.

"At this level you've just got to get over that line so my overwhelming emotion is phew!

"Five or six games ago we felt we turned a corner but unfortunately once you think you've got it correct, it doesn't always work at this level.

"I'm delighted for the players today, I'm delighted for the club and I'm delighted for the fans who I thought were magnificent."

The first-half started brightly for Rangers with Pawel Wszolek drawing the first save of the game from Jordan Smitth after just six minutes.

Mustapha Carayol had the first goal-scoring chance for Forest forcing Alex Smithies to tip his powerful effort over the bar from the edge of the area after 15 minutes.

The first-half faded as both teams showed industry but little finesse and struggled to create any noteworthy goal-scoring opportunities.

QPR came straight out of the blocks after half-time and broke the deadlock four minutes into the second-half.

Washington hassled Joe Worrall into a mistake before racing through and lifting the ball over Smith into the back of the net.

The lead was doubled on the hour mark with ex-Forest man Lynch heading in at the far post against his former club from Ryan Manning's hooked cross.

Forest started to press forward and Alex Smithies was lucky not to spill Worrall's long-range effort over the goal-line in the 68th minute, before James Perch managed to scramble the ball away for a corner.

Smithies continued to frustrate Forest denying David Vaughan from just inside the penalty area after Chris Cohen's initial shot had been blocked.

The final chance of the game fell to Cash, who saw his effort palmed away by the impressive Smithies.