' MATCH THREAD: CARDIFF CITY v QPR ' MATCH THREAD

CARDIFF CITY V QPR
Championship
Sunday, 14 August, 3pm
Cardiff City Stadium

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TEAM : Marshall
John
Peltier
Manga
Connolly
Richards
Ralls
Whittingham
Pilkington
Immers
Gounongbe

SUBS:
Moore
Morrison
Ajayi
Gunnarsson
Huws
Noone
Zohore


" UPDATED DAILY "


14/08/16

Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink will most certainly shuffle his pack once more as the Rs travel to Cardiff City. Alex Smithies should claim his place back between the sticks with Jake Bidwell, Steven Caulker and Grant Hall all set to re-join the defence.


13/08/16

Team News

Stuart O'Keefe suffered a suspected broken arm in the extra-time League Cup defeat to Bristol Rovers on Thursday.
Sean Morrison, who has recovered after ankle surgery, started against Rovers and could be involved in the squad.
Emyr Huws signed from Wigan on Friday and may be included, subject to international clearance.


Queens Park Rangers

Joel Lynch, who made his debut in the League Cup tie with Swindon on Wednesday, will be assessed after picking up an abdominal strain in that game.
New signing Yeni Ngbakoto opened the scoring against Swindon but will likely only be on the bench as he builds up his match sharpness.
Ariel Borysiuk, a summer signing from Legia Warsaw, is out with an ankle injury while Jack Robinson (knee) and Jamie Mackie (ankle) are longer term absentees.

Approx 800 QPR Fans are expected.

Referee James Linington appointed for Cardiff City v QPR

Pay on the day


Latest News

Cardiff City's first game of the season

Fabio has now left City to join Middlesbrough viewtopic.php?f=2&t=175843


Possible Lineups

Cardiff City

Marshall
John
Peltier
Manga
Connolly
Richards
Ralls
Whittingham
Pilkington
Immers
Gounongbe


QPR

13 Ingram
29 Furlong
5 Onuoha
6 Lynch
24 Perch
8 Cousins
20 Henry
23 N'Gbakoto
19 El Khayati
27 Shodipo
9 Washington


The Opposition



History

Queens Park Rangers Football Club (usually referred to as QPR) are a professional English football club in White City, London that play in The Championship, the second tier of English football. Their honours include winning the League Cup in 1967, being runners-up in the old First Division in 1975–76 and reaching the final of the FA Cup in 1982, where they lost 1–0 to Tottenham Hotspur in a replay after they drew 1–1 in the initial final match.

Queens Park Rangers were founded in 1886 after the merger of Christchurch Rangers and St. Judes Institute, and their traditional colours are blue and white. In the early years after the club's formation in their original home of Queen's Park, games were played at many different grounds until finally the club settled into their current location at Loftus Road. Owing to their proximity to other west London clubs, QPR maintain long-standing rivalries with several other clubs in the area. The most notable of these are Chelsea, Fulham and Brentford, with whom they contest what are known as West London Derbies. Outside London, QPR also traditionally share rivalries with Watford, Luton and Cardiff, although in recent years these fixtures have become less prominent.


2016/17 Results

Cardiff

SAT 6 AUG 2016 - CHAMPIONSHIP Birmingham 0 - 0 Cardiff
THU 11 AUG 2016 - EFL CUP Bristol Rovers 1 - 0 Cardiff


QPR

WED 10 AUG 2016 - EFL CUP QPR 2 - 2 Swindon (QPR win 4-2 on penalties)
SUN 7 AUG 2016 - CHAMPIONSHIP QPR 3 - 0 Leeds


Recent meetings

2015/2016 Sat 15 Aug Q.P.R. 2 - 2 Cardiff City Championship
2010/2011 Sat 23 Apr Cardiff City 2 - 2 Q.P.R. Championship
2010/2011 Sat 27 Nov Q.P.R. 2 - 1 Cardiff City Championship
2009/2010 Sat 17 Apr Q.P.R. 0 - 1 Cardiff City Championship
2009/2010 Sat 19 Sep Cardiff City 0 - 2 Q.P.R. Championship


Previous Highlights




Match Odds

Cardiff 23/20
Draw 9/4
QPR 5/2


Tickets

Cardiff v QPR is a GOLD category match. See full prices here

Tickets can be purchased in person at the CCS Ticket Office situated in the Grandstand, next to Corporate Entrance 2.

Alternatively, you can call the Stadium Ticket Office on 0845 345 1400. The Ticket Office is open from 9am to 5:30pm on Monday to Friday, and 9am to 3pm on non match-day Saturdays.

The easiest way is to book online - http://www.eticketing.co.uk/cardiffcity


Guess the Score / Attendance
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2-1 City.

3-1 Qpr hope I'm wrong but just being truthful.

3-0 QPR would love to be wrong

2-2 and blow a 2-0 lead,anybody seen that before?

On the basis of tonight, I can't help but be negative.

Cardiff City 0-1 QPR

Polter, 84

0-0 which I think we will be seeing a lot of this season unfourtunetly.

if QPR score in the first 30 minutes i can see them going on to win it by 3 or 4.
If it goes in at the break goalless, i think QPR will just pip it.

City 1 QPR 1

2-0 to the Bloobirds (Whitts,Immers) 17k plus crowd

0-3

0-2 Qpr unfortunately based on the shower of shit I witnessed last night. Can't see us scoring

City nil

After last nights performance I'll have to go with QPR 0-3 hope I'm wrong.

Do people realise we will have 6 different players playing Sunday that started last night, It's called 1st 11 so no comparison to performance ! Bunch of defeatest already?

Referee James Linington appointed for Cardiff City v QPR ...

Official James Linington appointed for Cardiff v QPR
Referees first QPR match in nearly a year
Sunday is Linington's second fixture of the season
REFEREE James Linington has been appointed to officiate QPR’s Sunday afternoon clash against Cardiff City in south Wales.

The referee based in Newport has been selected by the EFL and his officials for the match will be Ravel Cheosiaua, Adam Matthews and Keith Stroud.

The last time Linington took charge of a Rangers match was just under a year ago and it was not a memorable one as the R’s were knocked out of the League Cup by Carlisle United. He was also the official when QPR beat Watford 2-1 back in 2014 to secure a place in the Championship Play-offs.

Does'nt matter how many different players are used against QPR, our lack of firepower up front will still be the same. Would have gone for something like a 2-2 draw, but given our lack of goals I think QPR will beat us. Going for 0-2.

Im going to try and have faith that they are going to pull things together and battle out a win. Hard to beileve based on that last performance but if Trollope does his job and gives the players a kick up the arse who knows? 2-1 Cardiff

Unfortunately the confidence is clearly going to lie in the QPR camp. We are the ones with something to prove here!

1-2 QPR nothing to do with yesterday's result just think they're stronger

0-0.

Head says 1-0 QPR
Heart says 1-0 bluebirds

TWô all draw but I really hope City win

13/08/16

Team News

Stuart O'Keefe suffered a suspected broken arm in the extra-time League Cup defeat to Bristol Rovers on Thursday.
Sean Morrison, who has recovered after ankle surgery, started against Rovers and could be involved in the squad.
Emyr Huws signed from Wigan on Friday and may be included, subject to international clearance.

Queens Park Rangers

Joel Lynch, who made his debut in the League Cup tie with Swindon on Wednesday, will be assessed after picking up an abdominal strain in that game.
New signing Yeni Ngbakoto opened the scoring against Swindon but will likely only be on the bench as he builds up his match sharpness.
Ariel Borysiuk, a summer signing from Legia Warsaw, is out with an ankle injury while Jack Robinson (knee) and Jamie Mackie (ankle) are longer term absentees.

1-2

What are the injury concerns?


Cardiff City are likely to be without combative midfielder Stuart O’Keefe after he suffered a suspected broken arm at the Memorial Stadium. New signing Emyr Huws is in contention, subject to international clearance on his move, despite missing the start of Wigan’s season with an ankle injury. QPR’s Joel Lynch is a doubt.

Cardiff Likely XI: Marshall, Richards, Manga, Morrison, Connolly, John, Whittingham, Huws, Pilkington, Immers, Gounongbe

QPR Likely XI: Smithies, Onouha, Hall, Caulker, Bidwell, Henry, Luongo, Gladwin, Chery, Shodipo, Polter

I will be more positive than others on here 2-1 city

Cardiff Likely XI: Marshall, Richards, Manga, Morrison, Connolly, John, Whittingham, Huws, Pilkington, Immers, Gounongbe


I'd be happy with that starting 11.

2-0 Cardiff.

Read the QPR forums and and essentially they fancy it after our Gas loss and their Leeds win:

General opinion seems to be that:

We are solid, create chances but poor finishing.
Manga is our best player. Best option is to work around him.
We have a superior aerial threat.
Peter Whittingham is one to watch. Karl Henry and Cousins to stay tight on him to stop creation.
Two games in, no goals.
Nerves on first home game.
Gas loss, heads down.
Our fans creating a home advantage with a big atmosphere (I'm looking at you, Wayne Nash).
Great home record.
We will press and limit play as we did for the most part at Brum.
We like taking long shots and long balls.
Gounongbe rated as a target man with Immers and Pilkington following on.
Polter versus Peltier.
Fabio to Boro a loss.
Our fans on players back early in game!
Individual errors and QPR capitalising on as they did with Leeds.
QPR to force errors, keep same defensive line as Leeds and win aerial battles.
Direct running at our defence, wingplay and cut-ins, free-kicks from specialists Chery and Ngbakoto.
Also, They've read our forum and said that we don't fancy it!

Well I do and for that last comment only I predict 1-0 City.

I do think we'll take it up a notch, but QPR are banging them in. I think they'll edge it 2-1.