Preview: Swansea City vs. Queens Park Rangers - prediction, team news, lineups

Queens Park Rangers volition caput to South Wales for a Championship brushwood against Swansea City connected Boxing Day.

The hosts are looking to bounce backmost from consecutive defeats, portion the visitors are hoping to widen their unbeaten tally to 8 matches.

Match preview

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Swansea are presently sitting successful 11th spot successful the Championship table aft winning seven, drafting six and losing 9 of their 22 league matches.

The Swans recorded their astir caller triumph connected December 10, with Jay Fulton and Liam Cullen uncovering the nett successful a 2-1 distant triumph implicit Plymouth Argyle.

That effect made it 4 consecutive games without defeat, but Swansea person since experienced a mates of disappointing outings, giving up a two-goal pb successful a 3-2 nonaccomplishment against Sunderland earlier falling to a 2-1 distant decision successful Saturday's distant clash with Hull City.

They appeared to beryllium connected people to prime up a constituent astatine the MKM Stadium aft Harry Darling cancelled retired Joao Pedro's opener, however, Mason Burstow yet scored an 80th-minute victor to condemn Swansea to their sixth distant decision of the Championship season.

Luke Williams's broadside volition present instrumentality to the Swansea.com Stadium, wherever they person taken conscionable 13 points from 10 league games this season, leaving them with the associated third-worst location grounds successful the division.

They person besides mislaid 3 of their erstwhile 4 location meetings with QPR, losing each of those games by a 1-0 scoreline, including their astir caller clash successful April.

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QPR went into the November planetary interruption astatine the bottommost of the Championship array aft mustering conscionable 10 points from their opening 15 matches.

However, they person since managed to enactment unneurotic a seven-game unbeaten run, moving them up to 14th presumption and 7 points wide of the bottommost three.

The R's began their unbeaten streak with draws against Stoke City and Watford, either broadside of a 2-0 distant triumph implicit Cardiff City, earlier they recorded consecutive location victories against Norwich City and Oxford United without conceding.

After playing retired a 1-1 distant gully with Bristol City, QPR went connected to grounds a constrictive 2-1 triumph successful Saturday's gathering with Preston North End astatine Loftus Road.

Rayan Kolli scored his 3rd extremity successful 4 games to cancel retired Milutin Osmajic's opener, earlier Jimmy Dunne netted an 89th-minute victor to unafraid a 3rd consecutive location victory.

Having conceded conscionable 3 goals successful the past 7 matches, the R's volition look to nutrient different beardown antiaircraft show successful Thursday's distant trip, arsenic they spell successful hunt of their 3rd distant league triumph of the season.

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Team News

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The hosts are expected to beryllium without the services of Joe Allen, Ollie Cooper and Kristian Pedersen owed to their respective wounded issues.

Josh Ginnelly and Sam Parker look to beryllium closing successful connected a instrumentality to action, but they volition not beryllium acceptable to play a relation successful the Boxing Day fixture.

Cullen volition beryllium looking to proceed his caller signifier successful the last third, having scored 4 goals successful Swansea's erstwhile 7 matches, including strikes successful each of their past 3 location games.

As for the visitors, they person provided the affirmative quality that Steve Cook volition not person to acquisition country aft helium sustained a ft wounded successful the caller triumph implicit Preston.

The nine were incapable to springiness a predicted timeline for Cook's recovery, but they confirmed helium would beryllium retired for astatine slightest 10 days earlier helium is assessed again.

QPR brag Marti Cifuentes is besides without Karamoko Dembele and Zan Celar owed to genu and hamstring injuries respectively.

Swansea City imaginable starting lineup:
Vigouroux; Key, Cabango, Darling, Tymon; Fulton, Grimes; Peart-Harris, Cullen, Eom; Vipotnik

We say: Swansea City 1-1 Queens Park Rangers

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