Rangers named an attacking line up to face the side they beat 4-0 just two weeks ago. Sean Thomas was in goal behind a back four of Ugo Ukah, Jonathan Munday, Georges Santos and Andrew Howell. Stefan Bailey and Scott Donnelly were the central midfield pairing whilst Shabazz Baidoo, Sammy Youssouf, Luke Townsend and Stefan Moore took up the wide and forward positions between them.

For Aldershot's part they named a starting eleven that included four players who featured in their first team on Saturday and two familiar faces in former R's Lewis Hamilton and Leroy Griffiths. It didn't take them long to get into this one, the game was only four minutes old before Hassan Sulaiman converted from a decent Griffiths cross to put the visitors one up.

It took Rangers nearly twenty minutes to find a way back into the game but the equaliser finally came from a set piece courtesy of the returning Donnelly who curled a twenty five yard free kick round the wall and and inside the post to level things up.

However despite getting a grip back on the game The R's failed to capitalise and just nine minutes later The Shots were in front again. A long ball was knocked over the top and Kirk Hudson's pace caught out the Rangers defence, Hudson then did well to round Sean Thomas and send his side in at the break 2-1 up.

The second half struggled to live up to the pace of the first but there were still plenty of chances for both sides to take hold of the game. Leroy Griffiths was denied a goal on his return to Loftus Road when he was ruled offside from Hamilton's pass and Sammy Youssouf, who had earlier been denied a penalty claim, got face on face with Ryan Scott and might have been fortunate to escape with a ticking off from the referee.

As the game drew into the last ten minutes Rangers finally broke through The Shots rearguard, Scott Donnelly's pass split the defence and Sammy Youssouf was on hand to slot home his second goal in four starts at this level. Rangers would have been expecting to share the points but as the clock ticked down Aldershot threw on their youth team top scorer, Danny Hylton. His pace got him away from the Rangers backline and he slipped it past Thomas to give Aldershot the lead, and ultimately all three points.