MATCH THREAD: “ QPR v CARDIFF CITY “ MATCH THREAD

QPR v CARDIFF CITY
Monday 1st January, 3pm
Sky Bet Championship
Lofted Road 





Cardiff City: Alnwick; Ng, Goutas, McGuinness, Collins; Siopis, Wintle, Ralls; Meite, Etete, R. Colwill.

Subs: Turner, Ugbo, Bowler, Adams, Panzo, Evans, Tanner, J. Colwill, Robinson.





Cardiff were offered 2,800 tickets just like all clubs are.

Cardiff chose just the Top tier only, so approx 1,450 Cardiff fans on New Years Day.


Updated:

Erol Bulut:

“Aaron Ramsey hasn’t started training yet so hopefully he trains in January and fit for February , but Callum O’Dowda has started back with us. I hope he’ll be back playing maybe not next week, but the week after he can start to play a bit.”

TEAM NEWS:

Striker Grant is out injured.

Cardiff are without Ramsey & O’Dowda.

Ramsey and O’Dowda have played only 6 games this season out of 27 League and Cup games.





TEAM NEWS:

Striker Grant is out injured.




The Opposition's Manager

Marti Cifuentes was appointed QPR manager in October.

Since he took charge, they won three of their eleven games. All of those wins came consecutively in late November to early December. They have lost five of those games, with three draws.

He previously had spells in charge of clubs such as AaB and Hammarby.

Opposition Dangerous Players

Kenneth Paal has scored in two of his last three games against us.

Ilias Chair will be seen as an obvious threat, despite not having his best season. He has reached double figure is goal and assists in each of the last four seasons.

Head To Head 

QPR beat us 2-1 at CCS in first home league game of the season.

That was one of three wins for them in the last five meetings. We have won just one of those games, which came at Loftus Road in the Championship in March 2022.

Team News - Predicted Line-Ups

QPR: Begovic, Cannon, Cook, Clarke-Salter, Paal, Field, Dozzell, Willock, Dixon-Bonner, Chair, Armstrong

Cardiff City: Alnwick, Ng, McGuinness, Goutas, Collins, Siopis, Ralls, Colwill, Bowler, Meite, Etete

Last Game

We lost at home to Leicester on Friday night.

On the same day, QPR drew away at Ipswich.

Match Odds

QPR - 7/5
Cardiff City - 2/1
Draw - 11/5

Predictions

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1-2 To The Blooobirds and not too bad a Christmas

Win for city. Tanner to start, and score

Cardiff were offered 2,800 tickets just like all clubs are.

Cardiff chose just the Top tier only, so approx 1,450 Cardiff fans on New Years Day.

For me:


QPR 1 Cardiff City 3

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Striker Grant is out injured.

Erol Bulut:

“Aaron Ramsey hasn’t started training yet so hopefully he trains in January and fit for February , but Callum O’Dowda has started back with us. I hope he’ll be back playing maybe not next week, but the week after he can start to play a bit.”




TEAM NEWS:

Striker Grant is out injured.

Cardiff are without Ramsey & O’Dowda.

Ramsey and O’Dowda have played only 6 games this season out of 27 League and Cup games.

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Our 2 best players out long term and now our inform player Grant now out. This is turning out to be a frustrating season.

Intersting stats ahead of a game I feel we should (almost must) win...

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Intersting stats ahead of a game I feel we should (almost must) win...

Thanks Chris, they are interesting stats.

We haven’t been good defensively for a while, but they’re not scoring.

I predict both to change but we’ll win 2-1.

Queens Park Rangers boss Martí Cifuentes reckons January could prove to be the turning point that his side desperately need ahead of their New Year’s Day clash with Cardiff City.

After holding promotion contenders Ipswich Town to a goalless draw earlier in the week, relegation-threatened QPR host Erol Bulut’s mid-table Cardiff at Loftus Road.

The Rs have failed to win in the Championship since the start of the month, but Cifuentes is optimistic that a run of home fixtures will propel them away from the drop zone.

He said: “We know we need to achieve eight, nine, ten victories, whatever it may be, as soon as possible.

“With the opportunity to play four at home, this will be massive for our situation.

“We want to take the confidence created from the level of performance against Ipswich into this game.

“We know every game is different and we need to be aware that football is very complex in the sense that there are a lot of factors, but how we played should give us a confidence boost to start the new year at home.

We should be winning this game they have not won in 5 and only won 3 out of there last 20 games We have won 1 out of the last 5. I don't feel confident at all tbh but fingers crossed.

Latest Match Odds

QPR - 8/5
Cardiff City - 1/1
Draw - 11/5

Alex Rúnarsson's absence from Cardiff Squad was due to a head injury he picked up in training and is now got again, please don’t pick him Erol.

Alex Rúnarsson's absence from Cardiff Squad was due to a head injury he picked up in training and is now got again, please don’t pick him Erol.

Agree, hope he doesn’t start.

Alnwick did well again on Friday despite the result.

Cardiff City: Alnwick; Ng, Goutas, McGuinness, Collins; Siopis, Wintle, Ralls; Meite, Etete, R. Colwill.

Subs: Turner, Ugbo, Bowler, Adams, Panzo, Evans, Tanner, J. Colwill, Robinson.

QPR without 4 of there best players

Come on City

Bluebirds

Wintle turns an early ball over the top of the defence. Etete tries to get on the end of it but it's nodded back to Begovic.

Cardiff starting well


Cardiff seeing a lot of the ball early. It's a 4-5-1 by all accounts. Colwill on the left and Meite out on that right hand side.

Great sliding tackle from Ralls to win the ball in midfield, but the attack fizzles out as Etete loses possession.

Ng and Colwill break the lines with one lovely pass from the former to the latter. Colwill ships it out to Collins, whose cross is deflected and comes back off him for a home throw-in. Nice breakaway, that.

City looking good but we now need to make their goalie have to work

Jimmy Dunne poleaxes Etete with a meaty aerial challenge. Cardiff get a free-kick on halfway.

Cardiff in total control

Good spell from Cardiff. They work their way upfield again and this time Collins' cross is out for a corner.

Begovic with a big, punching clearance. Good goalkeeping.

Come on Cardiff it’s ours QPR are crap

We’ve started better but no clear chances yet

QPR look awful so far