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QPR will be facing visitors Sheffield Wednesday at Loftus Road Stadium in the Championship fixture on Saturday.
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📏 Form Guide
Queens Park Rangers
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QPR will be looking for another win after the 0-1 Championship victory over Swansea City.
In that game, Queens Park Rangers had 32% possession and 10 shots at goal with 4 on target. The only player on the scoresheet for Queens Park Rangers was Steve Cook (71'). On the other side, Swansea City had 15 attempts at goal with 4 of them on target.
Over their past 6 games, Martí Cifuentes's Queens Park Rangers have scored a combined total of 7 times, with that being an average number of goals scored per match equal to 1.17.
Sheffield Wednesday
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Since being defeated in their last game at the hands of Middlesbrough in Championship action, Sheffield Wednesday and their travelling supporters will be hoping that they can get a better result in this one.
In that game, Sheffield Wednesday had 35% possession and 6 attempts at goal with 2 on target. The only player on the scoresheet for Sheffield Wednesday was Michael Ihiekwe (41' Own goal). Middlesbrough had 23 shots on goal with 5 on target. Isaiah Jones (73') scored for Middlesbrough.
In 5 of the prior six games involving Sheffield Wednesday, a relatively low number of goals have been scored between them and opposing sides. The overall average goals scored per game in that period is a paltry 2.33, with the number of goals averaged by The Owls standing at 0.5.
Going into this encounter, Sheffield Wednesday haven’t won away from home in the past 2 matches in the league.
↔️ Head to head
Looking at their most recent head to head meetings stretching back to 31/08/2019 shows that QPR have won 2 of these games and Sheffield Wednesday 3, with the number of drawn matches standing at 1.
A sum of 19 goals were yielded between them during those clashes, with 9 from The R's and 10 belonging to The Owls. The average number of goals per game works out to 3.17.
The last league game between the two was Championship match day 22 on 16/12/2023 when the final score was Sheffield Wednesday 2-1 Queens Park Rangers.
That day, Sheffield Wednesday managed 49% possession and 8 shots at goal with 3 on target. Goals were scored by Bambo Diaby (37' Own goal), Bailey-Tye Cadamarteri (86') and Anthony Musaba (94').
Queens Park Rangers got 5 attempts at goal with 2 of them on target.
The match was refereed by Andy Davies.
ℹ️ Team News: QPR
The QPR boss Martí Cifuentes has zero fitness concerns whatsoever coming into this clash thanks to a completely injury-free group available to select from.
We think that The R's will possibly line up in a 4-2-3-1 formation for this game, utilising Asmir Begovic, Jimmy Dunne, Jake Clarke-Salter, Steve Cook, Kenneth Paal, Jack Colback, Sam Field, Chris Willock, Lyndon Dykes, Ilias Chair and Sinclair Armstrong.
📰 Team News: Sheffield Wednesday
Sheffield Wednesday manager Danny Röhl has a number of players out of action. Juan Delgado (Hip injury) and Jeff Hendrick (unknown injury) will not be playing here.
We are inclined to think that The Owls will likely begin the game with a 3-4-3 system, choosing James Beadle, Dominic Iorfa, Michael Ihiekwe, Akin Famewo, Pol Valentin, Will Vaulks, Barry Bannan, Marvin Johnson, Ian Poveda, Iké Ugbo and Djeidi Gassama.
💭 Prediction
We believe that Sheffield Wednesday will have to perform well to put one past this Queens Park Rangers side who we think will end up scoring and possibly keep a clean sheet as well.
That’s why we have predicted a very even match with a 1-0 winning score for Queens Park Rangers at the end of the 90.
Little in this one.
Our expert partners are tipping over 1.5 goals for this match. Check out their VIP predictions here.
Peter Guest, 13:02 06/04/2024
Predicted Lineups
⚽️ Team Focus:
QPR
Formed: 1882
Stadium: Loftus Road Stadium (18,439)
Captain: Asmir Begović
Chairman: Amit Bhatia
Manager: Martí Cifuentes
Competitions: Championship position 18
⭐ Star Man: Ilias Chair
Generally playing in the Central Attacking Midfielder position, Ilias Chair was born in Belgium. Having made a first senior appearance for Queens Park Rangers in the 2017 - 2018 season, the goalscoring Midfielder has netted 5 league goals in this Championship 2023 - 2024 season so far in a total of 38 appearances.
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41 | 26 | 9 | 6 | 32 | 87 | LWWWL |
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40 | 26 | 8 | 6 | 44 | 86 | WWWDW |
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39 | 27 | 4 | 8 | 42 | 85 | LWDLW |
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38 | 22 | 8 | 8 | 25 | 74 | LWWDL |
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40 | 19 | 11 | 10 | 23 | 68 | DWWDD |
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41 | 20 | 7 | 14 | 15 | 67 | WWWLW |
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39 | 16 | 12 | 11 | 17 | 60 | LWWWL |
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39 | 17 | 8 | 14 | -3 | 59 | DLWWL |
9 |
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40 | 17 | 7 | 16 | 3 | 58 | WWDDW |
10 |
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39 | 16 | 10 | 13 | 3 | 58 | DDDLL |
11 |
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40 | 17 | 5 | 18 | -9 | 56 | WWLLW |
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40 | 15 | 8 | 17 | -1 | 53 | LWLWW |
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40 | 15 | 6 | 19 | 1 | 51 | LLDWL |
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40 | 12 | 14 | 14 | 2 | 50 | DLWDD |
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40 | 12 | 11 | 17 | -11 | 47 | DLWDL |
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40 | 12 | 10 | 18 | -12 | 46 | DLDWW |
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40 | 12 | 9 | 19 | -10 | 45 | DDDLW |
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40 | 12 | 9 | 19 | -16 | 45 | LWLWD |
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41 | 11 | 11 | 19 | -9 | 44 | DLLLW |
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40 | 11 | 11 | 18 | -15 | 44 | DWLDL |
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40 | 11 | 9 | 20 | -17 | 42 | LLLLW |
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40 | 8 | 16 | 16 | -21 | 40 | LLDLD |
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40 | 11 | 6 | 23 | -33 | 39 | WLLDL |
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41 | 4 | 11 | 26 | -50 | 23 | LDLWL |
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Goals scored | 1.1 |
Goals conceded | 1.5 |
Time first goal scored | 51 |
Time first goal conceded | 43 |
Yellow cards | 2.2 |
Red cards | 0.1 |
Subs used | 4.3 |
Biggest victory | 4-2 |
Biggest defeat | 4-0 |
Goals scored | 0.5 |
Goals conceded | 2 |
Time first goal scored | 51 |
Time first goal conceded | 37 |
Yellow cards | 2.3 |
Red cards | 0.2 |
Subs used | 4.8 |
Biggest victory | 2-0 |
Biggest defeat | 6-0 |
Ilias Chair | 5 |
Lyndon Dykes | 4 |
Kenneth Paal | 4 |
Chris Willock | 4 |
Sinclair Armstrong | 3 |
Anthony Musaba | 6 |
Ike Ugbo | 6 |
Bailey-Tye Cadamarteri | 4 |
Michael Smith | 4 |
Djeidi Gassama | 3 |
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