Queens Park Rangers vs Derby County - prediction, team news, lineups

Derby County volition beryllium looking to prime up an important triumph connected Saturday erstwhile they question to Loftus Road to instrumentality connected Queens Park Rangers.

The visitors presently beryllium eighth successful the Championship table and are 4 points disconnected the playoffs, portion the hosts are 13th.

Match preview

QPR are without a triumph successful their past 4 games and volition beryllium keen to look victorious successful their last location lucifer this season.

The R's were beaten 2-1 by Swansea City connected Tuesday acknowledgment to a extremity from Ronald and a arguable Zan Vipotnik penalty, portion Rhys Norrington-Davies netted a precocious consolation goal.

Manager Julien Stephan felt his broadside "didn't instrumentality capable hazard with the archetypal pass" aft conceding wrong the archetypal 2 minutes and helium was furious astir the penalty, with Swansea brag Vitor Matos adjacent admitting it should not person been fixed arsenic the incidental appeared to hap extracurricular the box.

However, Stephan was blessed with the mode his players responded to going 2-0 down, stating that they "tried to springiness everything to people 1 extremity and the 2nd one".

Derby, meanwhile, request to triumph connected Saturday to support their playoff hopes live with conscionable 2 games near to play this season.

The Rams suffered a large stroke connected Tuesday arsenic they were beaten 2-1 by Norwich City, with Mohamed Toure and Liam Gibbs connected people for the Canaries and David Ozoh scoring for Derby.

Manager John Eustace was not blessed with the goals his broadside conceded, branding them "really poor", but said helium was "really pleased" with the effort and cognition of his players.

It is worthy noting that Derby person mislaid their past 3 distant games, though they are looking to bash the treble implicit QPR this play for the archetypal clip since the 2016-17 campaign.

Queens Park Rangers Championship form: 

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Team News

QPR are without the likes of Kwame Poku, Jake Clarke-Salter, Ziyad Larkeche, Jimmy Dunne, Koki Saito and Karamoko Dembele done injury.

Steve Cook has apt played his past crippled for the nine aft it was announced that helium volition beryllium leaving erstwhile his declaration expires and Tylon Smith is apt to regenerate him against Derby.

Paul Smyth is besides expected to travel into the broadside for Poku, who picked up a hamstring wounded against Swansea.

Derby, meanwhile, are missing Patrick Agyemang, Callum Elder, Rhian Brewster and Bobby Clark done injury.

Derry Murkin picked up a sound against Norwich and is expected to beryllium replaced astatine left-back by Craig Forsyth, portion apical scorer Carlton Morris volition erstwhile again pb the line.

Queens Park Rangers imaginable starting lineup:

Walsh; Adamson, Edwards, Smith, Norrington-Davies; Vale, Hayden, Morgan, Smyth; Kolli, Burrell

Derby County imaginable starting lineup:

Zetterstrom; Ward, Langas, Clarke, Forsyth; Travis, Ozoh; Brereton-Diaz, Szmodics, Banel; Morris

We say: Queens Park Rangers 0-1 Derby County

Derby person much to play for than QPR astatine this constituent successful the play and we are backing them to prime up an important win.