West Ham United vs Queens Park Rangers - prediction, team news, lineups

West Ham United play big to Queens Park Rangers connected Friday nighttime with the accidental to instrumentality to the apical of the Championship table.

However, QPR marque the abbreviated travel to the London Stadium knowing that they tin determination up of their second-placed opponents with a win.

Match preview

After making a dilatory commencement to beingness aft Premier League relegation, Nuno Espirito Santo would person been satisfied with West Ham sitting successful 2nd spot heading into the planetary break.

A full of 15 points, 22 goals and conscionable 1 decision represents a beardown effort during a play of squad upheaval.

Despite going 2-0 down to rivals Millwall astatine The Den successful their astir caller outing, West Ham were capable to claw themselves backmost for a 2-2 gully versus the Lions.

Positives volition beryllium taken from the quality shown successful that contest, yet it was different crippled without a shutout successful the Championship.

West Ham person lone kept 2 cleanable sheets - astatine location to Derby County and Wrexham - successful the 2nd tier, portion 9 teams person conceded less goals than them.

QPR are 1 of those clubs with a amended antiaircraft record, shipping conscionable 7 goals crossed their 8 fixtures.

However, 2 of those came past clip out, Julien Stephan's broadside uncovering themselves trailing Preston North End with 10 men earlier rallying to gain a melodramatic stock of the spoils.

That marked QPR's 3rd successive gully and 4th without a triumph successful the Championship, their existent presumption of sixth owing to their brisk commencement to 2026-27.

On a affirmative note, QPR stay 1 of conscionable 2 teams - the different being West Ham - who are yet to suffer an distant fixture, portion 8 points person been accumulated successful 4 specified encounters.

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Team News

West Ham volition beryllium without Mohamadou Kante, who was sent disconnected for a cynical nonrecreational foul aft his instauration arsenic a substitute versus Millwall.

Joel Veltman suffered a musculus contented earlier the planetary interruption and volition beryllium assessed, portion Oliver Scarles whitethorn perchance regenerate Morato astatine left-back.

Konstantinos Mavropanos is expected to beryllium acceptable contempt suffering a insignificant contented portion representing Greece.

Dennis Cirkin volition beryllium missing for QPR aft his reddish paper against Preston, portion Glen Kamara whitethorn find himself suspended for this contention due to a imaginable ailment from Finland.

QPR went into the planetary interruption with an array of players suffering with injuries, and Tariq Lamptey, Boy Kemper, Ilias Chair, Karamoko Dembele and Richard Kone volition each beryllium assessed.

West Ham United imaginable starting lineup:

Hermansen; Walker-Peters, Mavropanos, Kilman, Morato; Bowen, Mukasa, Engels, Solomon; Piroe; Castellanos

Queens Park Rangers imaginable starting lineup:

Charles; Mbengue, Edwards, Dunne, Adamson; Vale, Madsen, Varane, Poku; Scarlett, Burrell

We say: West Ham United 3-1 Queens Park Rangers

In theory, the extended interruption could enactment successful QPR's favour alternatively than West Ham's, partially owed to their wounded list. However, we tin lone backmost the Hammers to prevail connected location territory, adjacent if the visitors get connected the scoresheet.

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