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Predictions and Tips
The Championship game at MATRADE Loftus Road Stadium on Saturday sees hosts QPR ready themselves for the visit of Bristol City.
Our tips, poll and stats for Queens Park Rangers v Bristol City can all be found here (inc. the best betting odds).
📏 Form Guide

Queens Park Rangers
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QPR, following on from their previous result, will be hoping for more of the same after the 1-3 Championship triumph vs Oxford United.
In that match, Queens Park Rangers managed 48% possession and 11 attempts at goal with 6 of them on target. For Queens Park Rangers, goals were scored by Ronnie Edwards (7') and Min-hyeok Yang (91'). For their opponents, Oxford United had 12 attempts on goal with 5 on target. Ole Romeny (42' Own goal) and Stanley Mills (62') scored for Oxford United.
It has not been often in recent times where Queens Park Rangers have shown defensive steel. It will be a concern for them that Queens Park Rangers have seen their defence breached in 5 of their previous 6 games, letting in 10 goals along the way. That sort of pattern won’t necessarily be carried forward into this game, of course.
Looking at their past form shows that Queens Park Rangers:
- haven't been beaten in the league by Bristol City in their previous 3 matches.
- have not been beaten in their last 2 league matches at home.
- are without a win at home for the past 3 matches in the league.
Bristol City
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Bristol City will go into this match following on from a 2-1 Championship win with the defeat of West Bromwich Albion in their previous fixture.
In that game, Bristol City managed 53% possession and 12 attempts on goal with 7 on target. For Bristol City, goals were scored by Nahki Wells (56') and Haydon Roberts (96'). At the other end, West Bromwich Albion got 13 shots at goal with 5 on target. Alex Mowatt (62') was the scorer for West Bromwich Albion.
The stats tell the story, and Bristol City have been scored against in 6 of their last 6 matches, letting opponents get 6 goals in all. Defensively, Bristol City certainly have room for improvement.
Analysis of their past results shows that Bristol City:
- have not lost to Queens Park Rangers in games played away from home for the previous 7 league games. A very decent away record against them.
- are without a win away from home in their last 2 matches in the league.
↔️ Head to head
An examination of their past head to head meetings dating back to 30/12/2021 shows that QPR have won 3 of these games and Bristol City 1, with the number of drawn games being 2.
In all, 11 goals were yielded between them in these games, with 6 of them for The R's and 5 netted by The Robins. That is an average goals per game value of 1.83.
The last league clash between these clubs was Championship match day 21 on 14/12/2024 when it ended Bristol City 1-1 Queens Park Rangers.
On that occasion, Bristol City managed 69% possession and 17 attempts on goal with 5 on target. Their only player on the scoresheet was Scott Twine (60').
Queens Park Rangers got 5 shots on goal with 2 of them on target. Paul Smyth (65') scored.
The match was refereed by Lewis Smith.
📋 Team News: QPR
Jake Clarke-Salter (Hip injury), Zan Celar (Hamstring injury) and Harvey Vale (Back injury) won’t be able to feature for QPR manager Martí Cifuentes.
📰 Team News: Bristol City
Bristol City boss Liam Manning has to choose a team with limited availability. George Tanner (Knee surgery) and Luke McNally (Cruciate ligament injury) miss out here.
🧠 Prediction
We’re inclined to think that Queens Park Rangers will need to put in a solid display to be putting a goal past this Bristol City side who should end up scoring and staying ahead.
Therefore, we predict a very competitive encounter with a 0-1 victory for Bristol City at the end of this one.
Hopefully it’s a good one.
Andre Moura, 13:03 12/04/2025
📊 Poll: Who Will Win?

⚽️ Team Focus:
QPR
Formed: 1882
Stadium: MATRADE Loftus Road Stadium (18,439)
Captain: Steve Cook
Chairman: Lee Hoos
Manager: Martí Cifuentes
Competitions: Championship position 16
🔑 Key Man: Michael Frey
Mostly taking to the field in the Striker position, Michael Frey was born in Münsingen, Switzerland. After having played his first senior match for BSC Young Boys in the 2011 - 2012 season, the accomplished Forward has accumulated 7 league goals in this Championship 2024 - 2025 campaign to date in a total of 25 appearances.
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42 | 25 | 13 | 4 | 53 | 88 | DDDWW |
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42 | 24 | 16 | 2 | 44 | 88 | WWWDW |
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42 | 26 | 7 | 9 | 24 | 83 | WWLLL |
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41 | 21 | 13 | 7 | 20 | 76 | DLWWD |
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41 | 16 | 15 | 10 | 9 | 63 | DWLWW |
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41 | 18 | 8 | 15 | 5 | 62 | LWLLW |
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41 | 17 | 9 | 15 | 11 | 60 | WDWWL |
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41 | 13 | 18 | 10 | 11 | 57 | DDLLL |
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41 | 15 | 12 | 14 | -1 | 57 | LWLWW |
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41 | 16 | 8 | 17 | -4 | 56 | WLDLW |
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42 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 5 | 53 | LWLDL |
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41 | 15 | 8 | 18 | -1 | 53 | LLLLD |
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41 | 14 | 11 | 16 | -7 | 53 | WLDLD |
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41 | 14 | 9 | 18 | -7 | 51 | LLDWW |
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41 | 12 | 13 | 16 | -6 | 49 | LDLDW |
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42 | 10 | 19 | 13 | -8 | 49 | WLDDL |
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41 | 12 | 9 | 20 | -16 | 45 | LLWLL |
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41 | 11 | 12 | 18 | -18 | 45 | LWLWL |
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41 | 11 | 11 | 19 | -9 | 44 | WDLWL |
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41 | 10 | 14 | 17 | -12 | 44 | WLWDD |
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41 | 11 | 9 | 21 | -10 | 42 | WWWLD |
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41 | 9 | 15 | 17 | -20 | 42 | LWDDD |
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41 | 10 | 10 | 21 | -25 | 40 | WDWDD |
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42 | 9 | 13 | 20 | -38 | 40 | LDWLW |
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Goals scored | 1.5 |
Goals conceded | 1.3 |
Time first goal scored | 34 |
Time first goal conceded | 32 |
Yellow cards | 1.8 |
Red cards | 0.1 |
Subs used | 4.6 |
Biggest victory | 4-0 |
Biggest defeat | 4-1 |
Goals scored | 1 |
Goals conceded | 1.4 |
Time first goal scored | 52 |
Time first goal conceded | 44 |
Yellow cards | 2 |
Red cards | 0.1 |
Subs used | 4.2 |
Biggest victory | 3-1 |
Biggest defeat | 3-0 |
Michael Frey | 7 |
Jimmy Dunne | 5 |
Rayan Kolli | 4 |
Sam Field | 3 |
Koki Saito | 3 |
Anis Mehmeti | 12 |
Nahki Wells | 10 |
Scott Twine | 5 |
Sinclair Armstrong | 3 |
George Earthy | 3 |
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