Queens Park Rangers made a winning start to the new Football League Championship season with a 3-0 rout of Leeds United at the Loftus Road Stadium on Sunday afternoon.<br /><br />As for team news, two players of Nigerian descent in the shape of skipper Nedum Onuoha and Olamide Shodipo made the starting XI of the London team. <br /><br />Having impressed at pre-season, Shodipo, 19,&nbsp; has been drafted into the first team, and was handed his competitive debut by manager Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink against the team from <span>West Yorkshire.<br /><br />Ex-City defender Onuoha opened scoring after four minutes, bundling the ball home after Caulker and Gladwin had their shots blocked, and would have put his team 2-0 up sixteen minutes later but fired a loose ball over.<br /><br />Polter added a third for QPR in the fourth minute of stoppage time after he was teed up by the Nigerian-born stopper. <br /><br />Shodipo was applauded by the home supporters when he was substituted in the 68th minute, while Onuoha went the distance.<br /><br />Igho Kingsley <br /><br />Photo Credit : qpr.co.uk<br /></span>