📏 Form Guide

Queens Park Rangers

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QPR will be looking for an improved result here after a 1-2 Championship defeat last time out to Swansea City.

In that game, Queens Park Rangers managed 55% possession and 6 attempts at goal with 2 of them on target. For Queens Park Rangers, the scorers were Morgan Fox (29' Own goal) and Karamoko Dembélé (72'). Swansea City had 10 attempts at goal with 2 of them on target. Harry Darling (55') was the scorer for Swansea City.

Queens Park Rangers have been finding it hard to keep clean sheets lately, but they’ve also managed to convert their own chances into goals. Over their last 6 matches, Queens Park Rangers have conceded in 5 of them in addition to scoring in 5 of those matches. That trend isn’t assured to be sustained into this game, however.

Looking at the pre-match facts, Queens Park Rangers:

• have not been beaten in the league by Burnley in their previous 2 games.
• are without a home win in the past 5 league games. Things will have to change soon.

Burnley

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Burnley come into this match following on from a 2-1 Championship win over Sheffield United in their most recent game.

In that game, Burnley managed 52% possession and 9 shots at goal with 4 of them on target. The only player to score for Burnley was Josh Brownhill (28', 44'). Sheffield United got 14 shots on goal with 4 on target. Tom Cannon (37') was the scorer for Sheffield United.

A series of very capable performances from the Burnley defence has resulted in their ‘goals against’ tally standing at 4 from their previous 6 fixtures overall. In that period of time, the number of goals that they have scored themselves amounts to 9.

Looking at the pre-match facts, Burnley:

• haven't been beaten by Queens Park Rangers when having played them away from home in the previous 2 matches in the league.
• are unbeaten in their last 15 away league matches. An incredible run.

↔️ Head to head

Looking over their past head-to-head meetings stretching back to 10/01/2015 shows us that QPR have won 1 of these games and Burnley 3, with the number of draws standing at 2.

In all, 10 goals were shared by the two clubs during those clashes, with 3 for The R's and 7 netted by The Clarets. This gives an average number of goals per game equal to 1.67.

The previous league game featuring these clubs was Championship match day 12 on 26/10/2024 which finished with the scoreline of Burnley 0-0 Queens Park Rangers.

In that match, Burnley managed 75% possession and 22 attempts on goal with 4 of them on target.

On the other side, Queens Park Rangers got 2 shots on goal with 0 of them on target.

The referee was Andrew Kitchen.

📰 Team News: QPR

Jake Clarke-Salter (Hip injury), Zan Celar (Hamstring injury) and Harvey Vale (Back injury) are unavailable for QPR gaffer Martí Cifuentes.

In our view, The R's will possibly opt for a 4-2-3-1 system for the game, beginning the first half with Paul Nardi, Jimmy Dunne, Liam Morrison, Morgan Fox, Harrison Ashby, Ronnie Edwards, Jack Colback, Michael Frey, Lucas Andersen, Nicolas Madsen and Karamoko Dembele.

ℹ️ Team News: Burnley

Burnley boss Scott Parker has to choose a team with limited availability. Josh Laurent (Ankle injury), Benson Manuel (Achilles tendon problems), Mike Trésor (unknown injury) and Bashir Humphreys (unknown injury) will not be playing here.

From our viewpoint, The Clarets will likely utilise a 4-2-3-1 lineup, starting the game with James Trafford, Connor Roberts, CJ Egan-Riley, Maxime Estève, Lucas Pires, Josh Brownhill, Josh Cullen, Marcus Edwards, Hannibal Mejbri, Jaidon Anthony and Zian Flemming.

🔮 Prediction

Our thinking is that Queens Park Rangers might need a bit of good fortune to score goals against this Burnley outfit who we think should score at least once to put them ahead.

We’re therefore expecting a hard-fought contest, finishing with a 0-1 victory for Burnley when the referee blows for full-time.

It should be a good one.

Peter Guest, 11:02 26/04/2025