Queens Park Rangers v Stoke City
Championship | Loftus Road
Tuesday, 28 November 2023 @ 7.45pm
Queens Park Rangers are on a terrible run ahead of hosting Stoke City at Loftus Road on Tuesday, with just two points collected from their last six games.
QPR have picked up two draws and four losses in their last six Championship games, and face a Potters side whose last six games have brought three wins and two draws.
QPR are 23rd in the table after 17 games, of which they have won two and drawn four, earning 10 points.
Stoke are seven places ahead of Rangers in 16th, with six wins and three draws putting them on 21 points.
In the last 10 years, QPR and Stoke have played each other on 12 occasions. QPR won four of them, Stoke three, and they drew five times.
On average, QPR scored 1.2 goals and the Potters 1.1 in those matches.
Their last meeting was on April 29, when QPR won 1-0 away.
With 11 goals in 17 games so far this season, the home team are the league's second-lowest scorers with 0.6 goals per game. And they are conceding more than average, letting in 28 goals at a rate of 1.6 per game.
City are also below average scorers, with 0.9 goals per game, compared to a league average of 1.4. They have conceded 1.2 goals per game.
QPR's last match was on Saturday, a 1-0 loss against Norwich City.
Stoke lost 3-0 against Blackburn Rovers last time out, also on Saturday.
Tuesday's match will be refereed by James Linington, who has taken charge of nine Championship games so far this season, issuing no red cards and booking 36 players. He has awarded three penalties.
He is yet to oversee a match featuring either QPR or Stoke this season.