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QUEENS PARK RANGERS v CARDIFF CITY
Wednesday 1st January, 3pm
SkyBet Championship
Kiyan Prince Foundation Stadium 

Hopefully the Bluebirds can start 2020 with three points



I can't get to Kiyan Prince Foundation Stadium, is the match on TV?

Yes, the match is live on Sky Sports Red Button and Cardiff City TV.

About Queens Park Rangers

Queens Park Rangers Football Club, commonly abbreviated to QPR, is a professional association football club based in White City, London. The club currently competes in the Championship, the second tier of English football. They were founded in 1886 after the merger of Christchurch Rangers and St Judes Institute, although their official founding date is 1882 which is when Christchurch Rangers were first formed. In the early years after the club's formation in its original home of Queen's Park, London, they played their home games at many different grounds, until finally the club settled into its current location at Loftus Road, renamed Kiyan Prince Foundation Stadium at the beginning of the 2019/20 season.

The club's achievements include winning the League Cup in 1967, and they were FA Cup finalists in 1982. Their highest ever league finish was achieved in 1975–76 when they were runners-up in the old First Division, now known as the Premier League and qualified for Europe for the first time reaching the quarter-finals of the 1976–77 UEFA Cup.

QPR have long-standing rivalries with several other clubs in the London area. The most notable of these are Chelsea, Fulham and Brentford, with whom they contest the West London derbies.

Previous Meeting

We beat Queens Park Rangers 3-0 at Cardiff City Stadium in October. Sean Morrison, Marlon Pack and Callum Paterson got the goals.

Team News - Predicted Line-Ups

Queens Park Rangers: Lumley, Rangel, Hall, Leistner, Manning, Amos, Ball, Osayi-Samuel, Eze, Chair, Wells

Cardiff City: Etheridge, Bacuna, Flint, Nelson, Richards, Pack, Vaulks, Hoilett, Murphy, Tomlin, Glatzel

Form - Last Three Games    

Queens Park Rangers 1-2 Hull City
Reading 1-0 Queens Park Rangers
Queens Park Rangers 2-2 Charlton Athletic

Sheffield Wednesday 1-2 Cardiff City
Cardiff City 1-1 Millwall
Cardiff City 0-0 Preston North End

Match Odds

Queens Park Rangers - 23/20
Cardiff City - 12/5
Draw - 23/10

Predictions

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got told on the 21st that just over 700 tickets have been sold

got told on the 21st that just over 700 tickets have been sold

be very surprised if its not close to double that on the day...

Can we pay on the gate?

2-2.

Can we pay on the gate?

Yes it’s pay on gate, confirmed by the club on Twitter

It’s on the red button today and CITY TV too

Neil Harris faces his first selection dilemma of the year today as he welcomes back captain Sean Morrison from his three-match suspension.

Morrison was sent off in that thriller up at Elland Road last month and was subsequently hit with a three-game ban, despite the club appealing the decision.

However, he returns to the reckoning today as Cardiff City make the trip down the M4 to face QPR.

It will be intriguing to see how Harris decides to line up at the back, given that all four of his centre backs - Aden Flint, Curtis Nelson, Sol Bamba and Morrison - are all available, but first-choice wing backs Joe Bennett and Lee Peltier are likely to be absent.

Peltier missed the win over Sheffield Wednesday on Sunday owing to a knee injury he sustained against Millwall on Boxing Day, while Bennett was carried off on a stretcher up at Hillsborough following a head collision with Junior Hoilett. The outcome of that clash made for pretty grim viewing.

But Bamba did brilliantly when he came on up in Sheffield, making two important interventions late on to maintain the Bluebirds' lead, while Flint also looked steady and assured.


Jazz Richards will likely slot straight back in at left-back, while it remains to be seen who will be given the nod on the other flank.

Leandro Bacuna filled in against the Owls, so he is certainly an option, however there have been many calls for Cameron Coxe to be given the opportunity to show what he can do.


Elsewhere, it looks unlikely that Nathaniel Mendez-Laing will be fit enough to feature, having hobbled off up at Hillsborough owing to another hamstring problem.

The winger struggled with his hamstring in the early part of the season and it took him a while to get back up to speed. He has, however, called it only a minor setback.

Joe Ralls will also miss the clash due to his broken hand, the South Wales derby next week is the target for his return.

Meanwhile Isaac Vassell and Matthew Connolly remain the long-term absentees.


Predicted Cardiff City XI: Etheridge; Bacuna, Flint, Nelson, Richards; Pack, Vaulks; Whyte, Tomlin, Hoilett; Glatzel

Cmon Nelson get your touch sorted ffs

Well that was just shambolic... three centre backs and they score a header like that ffs

Team need to wake up

1-0 QPR

Also what the hell was Etheridge doing the clown

Awful defending by Bamba

Just stand off him....

Awful defending , free header , we shouldn’t be getting done in the air by them .......sloppy start

Bamba and Etheridge standing around fingering themselves. Joke of a goal

Awful defending , free header , we shouldn’t be getting done in the air by them .......sloppy start

The height on our defenders they should have cleared that

Also what the hell was Etheridge doing the clown

Game plan out if the window within 10 minutes we will struggle now with such a defensive set up

Bamba at fault

Clear hand ball

Haven’t got replays on red button but that looked a clear handball first time around

Absolutely no pressing from Us again, I don’t expect us to play like Liverpool or Man City but with no pressure on the opposition they don’t have to pump it long as we have to when we come under pressure

Dont look bad at times going forward, seen more passing and build up this game so far then in the last 3 home games.

Shame about their soft goal and the blatant handball

Don't want to sound too positive after the negativity (mainly from the usual source) at City going 1-0 down with 80 minutes still to play but City coming well into the game now and Tomlin strutting his stuff nicely

QPR still attacking well but don't count out this battling City side

Positive post over...

Ripped apart by 2 easy balls.... thankfully he missed that massive empty net behind Etheridge

Wait for it...

Shit. Hate to say it but that was a well crafted goal

Two goals both down to Bamba mistakes.