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

Aiming to region themselves from the playoff-chasing pack, Queens Park Rangers invited strugglers Derby County to MATRADE Loftus Road connected Wednesday nighttime for a Championship contest.

The R's picked up a commendable constituent astatine the basal of rubric favourites West Ham United connected Friday night, whereas the Rams were painfully adjacent to signaling a Pride Park occurrence implicit Wrexham connected Saturday afternoon.

Match preview

After threatening to scrape the bottommost of the Championship array implicit the past fewer years, Queens Park Rangers are present dreaming of a Premier League instrumentality for the archetypal clip since 2015 with ambitious Frenchman Julien Stephan astatine the helm.

The R's recorded their 4th consecutive second-tier gully connected Friday night, erstwhile Nicolas Madsen's archetypal extremity of the play was cancelled retired by a second-half Jarrod Bowen effort astatine West Ham's London Stadium.

The erstwhile England planetary was denied a winning extremity precocious connected from the punishment spot by QPR goalkeeper Pierce Charles, who produced an outstanding show successful East London, caller from collecting 4 consecutive cleanable sheets whilst connected planetary work for Northern Ireland.

One of 5 sides who person mislaid conscionable erstwhile successful the part truthful far, the R's beryllium successful sixth presumption successful the Championship standings aft 9 fixtures, 4 points down Middlesbrough successful 2nd spot.

Stephan's broadside volition beryllium hopeful of halting a five-match winless tally (D4 L1) astatine Loftus Road this week, however, the hosts person lone won 1 of their 4 location league fixtures truthful far, uncovering the nett conscionable 4 times.

Despite controlling ample spells of their conflict with Wrexham astatine Pride Park implicit the weekend, Derby County were incapable to assertion their archetypal location triumph of the play astatine the sixth effort successful each competitions.

The victor of the Golden Boot successful the Championship during 2023-24, Sammie Szmodics fired the Rams into an aboriginal pb past clip out, however, midfielder Ollie Rathbone netted an equaliser precocious connected for visiting Wrexham.

Since a 2-0 triumph astatine Portsmouth connected September 1, John Eustace's broadside person endured a five-game winless spell (D2 L3) successful the 2nd tier, dropping down to a lowly 23rd spot successful the standings.

Derby supporters scrambling for positives amid a hard tally of signifier volition surely constituent towards the contributions of summertime accomplishment Mohammed Fuseini, who has played a portion successful some of his side's goals during the past 2 fixtures.

Another crushed for cautious Derby optimism up of Wednesday night's trip, the Rams recorded back-to-back successes implicit QPR past play and person mislaid conscionable 8 of the past 23 meetings (W10 D5) betwixt the teams.

Queens Park Rangers Championship form:

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Team News

A cardinal playmaker for QPR successful caller years, Ilias Chair is simply a uncertainty to diagnostic this week due to the fact that of a musculus injury.

The R's options astatine the apical extremity of the transportation are reduced further by the lack of erstwhile wonderkid Karamoko Dembele.

Derby's fittingness woes worsened implicit the planetary break, with defender Max Johnston picking up an wounded successful training.

The Rams were already without centre-back Eiran Cashin (calf) and Matt Clarke (calf), whilst left-back Charlie Taylor (hamstring) is besides unavailable.

The biggest miss successful onslaught for Derby astatine the moment, American marksman Patrick Agyemang is recovering from an Achilles injury.

Queens Park Rangers imaginable starting lineup:

Charles; Adamson, Dunne, Clarke-Salter, Kemper; Edwards, Kamara, Madsen; Poku, Kolli, Kone

Derby County imaginable starting lineup:

Vickers; Ward, Langas, Sanderson, Hedges; Mowatt, Ozoh, Fuseini, Clark, Szmodics; Morris

We say: Queens Park Rangers 2-1 Derby County

Following a quartet of Championship draws, QPR volition beryllium eyeing up the sojourn of Derby arsenic a large accidental to assertion a 2nd location triumph of the season.

The Rams were much-improved successful the clash with Wrexham connected the weekend, however, a sixth league decision of the run is apt successful London.

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