Match Preview: Queens Park Rangers v Preston North End (Saturday, 5.15pm)

Preston North End travel to Queens Park Rangers on late Saturday in the Championship.

The visitors come into the game on the back of a defeat in their last match, having lost to Southampton 3-0 away.

QPR also lost their last match, 3-0 against Hull City.

In the last 10 years, QPR and Preston have played each other on 17 occasions. QPR won five of them, Preston nine, and they drew three times.

On average, QPR scored 0.9 goals and the Lilywhites 1.3 in those matches.

Their last meeting was on December 1, when QPR won 2-0 away.

QPR are 19th in the table after 43 games, of which they have won 12 and drawn 11, earning 47 points.

Preston are nine places ahead of Rangers in 10th, with 18 wins and nine draws putting them on 63 points.

With 40 goals in 43 games so far this season, the hosts are the league’s third-lowest scorers with 0.9 goals per game. And they are conceding at an average rate, letting in 57 goals at a rate of 1.3 per game.

North End, meanwhile, are average scorers, with 1.3 goals per game. They have conceded 1.4 goals per game.

QPR are in mixed form in the Championship, with two wins and two draws from their last six games.

With two wins and a draw over that period, the Lilywhites’ form is slightly worse – they have taken seven points from 18, compared to QPR’s eight.

Saturday’s match will be refereed by Gavin Ward, who has taken charge of 22 Championship games so far this season, issuing two red cards and booking 82 players. He has awarded two penalties.

The last QPR game Ward refereed was a 2-1 away loss to Huddersfield Town on October 21. His last Preston match was their 2-1 win at home against Plymouth Argyle on September 16.

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Queens Park Rangers v Preston North End
Championship | Loftus Road
Saturday, 20 April 2024 @ 5.15pm

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