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

Separated by conscionable a azygous constituent and 3 places successful the table, Queens Park Rangers invited Swansea City to Loftus Road connected Tuesday nighttime for a mid-table Championship clash.

Julien Stephan’s broadside are without a triumph successful 3 aft a 2-0 decision to London rivals Millwall, portion the Swans suffered precocious heartbreak astatine the weekend, conceding a 90th-minute victor to Cameron Archer successful a 2-1 loss.

Match preview

Queens Park Rangers ended the 2024-25 run successful 15th spot with 56 points, and portion determination is small near to play for this season, they tin instrumentality encouragement from the information they person already surpassed that tally with 3 games inactive to go.

The R’s person enjoyed a beardown turnaround implicit the people of the season, concisely putting themselves successful contention for a playoff push, but with the spread to the apical six present lasting astatine 11 points, their absorption has shifted towards finishing arsenic powerfully arsenic possible.

Stephan's men person seemingly tally retired of steam astatine the concern extremity of the play aft a tally of 2 draws and a decision person ended their slim chances of a playoff finish. 

Should Queens Park Rangers privation to amended connected their play erstwhile again adjacent year, tightening up defensively volition beryllium key.

Their 65 goals conceded is the second-worst instrumentality successful the division, with lone Sheffield Wednesday shipping much than them this season. 

Swansea City, meanwhile, marque the travel from South Wales aft being denied a 4th consecutive unbeaten effect successful melodramatic fashion, conceding precocious connected against Southampton's Archer astatine the weekend.

That decision means Vítor Matos’s broadside person present won conscionable 1 of their past six matches, leaving them with lone a top-half decorativeness to play for heading into the last 3 fixtures.

However, their grounds of 16 wins from 43 Championship outings is notable, with nary broadside presently successful the bottommost fractional having recorded much victories, underlining the imaginable wrong the squad up of adjacent season.

The bulk of those wins are acknowledgment to their prima striker up top, who whitethorn pull involvement elsewhere successful the summer.

Zan Vioptnik presently leads the mode astatine the apical of Championship apical scorers charts and is simply a large crushed wherefore the Swans tin participate their run-in without the menace of relegation looming. 

Matos' men could participate the apical fractional of the table, portion leapfrogging their upcoming opponents successful the process, earlier ending their play with trips to Norwich and a location fixture against Charlton connected the last day.  

Queens Park Rangers Championship form:

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Swansea City Championship form:

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Team News

Stéphan has the enactment to sanction an unchanged broadside aft QPR came done their decision astatine The Den without picking up immoderate caller wounded concerns.

Ilias Chair has started conscionable 9 times this play and made an quality disconnected the seat for the archetypal clip since aboriginal December astatine the weekend, the Moroccan could travel successful from the commencement connected Tuesday night.  

Striker Rumarn Burrell has besides precocious returned from a three-month absence, making 2 substitute appearances, and whitethorn beryllium handed a long-awaited commencement alongside Chair.

Ziyad Larkeche, Jimmy Dunne, Koki Saito and Karamoko Dembele each stay successful the attraction country for this one. 

As for the visiting side, they whitethorn beryllium forced into changes up of their 44th league lucifer of the season. 

Swansea, meanwhile, whitethorn beryllium forced into astatine slightest 1 alteration aft Gustavo Nunes required attraction precocious connected past clip out, and portion helium was capable to continue, helium could beryllium rested arsenic a precaution.

Matos volition inactive beryllium without the services of Josh Key, Ishe Samuels-Smith and Ethan Galbraith. 

Queens Park Rangers imaginable starting lineup:

Walsh; Mbengue, Edwards, Clarke-Salter, Norrington-Davies; Morgan, Varane; Chair, Vale, Smyth; Kone

Swansea City imaginable starting lineup:

Vigouroux; Parker, Cabango, Burgess, Tymon; Goncalo Franco, Stamenic; Cullen, Widell, Eom Ji-Sung; Vipotnik

We say: Queens Park Rangers 1-1 Swansea City

With some sides evenly matched and separated by conscionable a point, this contention is apt to beryllium a intimately fought affair.

Neither squad enters the clash successful peculiarly beardown form, and we expect that to beryllium reflected successful a hard-fought gully that keeps them level heading into the last stages of the season.

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