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Queens Park Rangers and Wolverhampton play at Loftus Road Stadium in a Championship round nine duel. These teams met only twice recently: on 23-01-2016, ending with a 1-1 draw, and on 08-19-2015, ending with Queens Park Rangers winning by (2-3). Although this is a game between 15th and 20th of the overall standings, it is actually a game between the 19th place in home games and the 13th as a visitor.
Queens Park Rangers
The home team is currently in 15th place with 23 points, after 6 wins, 5 draws and 7 losses. In the penultimate match, he won at home to Norwich City by (2-1). In the last match, lost out to Ipswich Town by (3-0). This is a team little affected by the house factor, since it has achieved similar results at home and abroad. For the championship, Queens Park Rangers had 12 points in 27 chances, after 3 wins, 3 draws and 3 losses in the last 9 games that played in his stadium. Defensive solidity has not been his strong point, having conceded goals in 9 of the last 10 games but his attack has scored regularly as he has scored goals in 7 of the last 10 matches in this competition. In his games at home there is a tendency towards goals, since 8 of his last 9 games by the competition finished with More of 1.5 goals. In 18 games in the competition, he never managed to turn the board in the 10 games in which he suffered the first goal.
The QPR team comes to this round with an away defeat to Ipswich 3-0, putting an end to the two straight games without losing. In this game in his stadium coach Ian Holloway must keep the team in 3-5-2 with the most advanced positions being occupied by Washington and Polter: the last player is one of the top scorers of the QPR with 4 goals scored. It is worth noting that the home team has some defensive and offensive flaws in home games, averaging 1 goal and conceded an average of 1.56 goals per game. For this game the home manager does not have Mackie, Perch, Steven Caulker and Robinson, all injured.
Wolverhampton
The visiting team is currently in 20th place with 18 points, after 4 wins, 6 draws and 8 losses. In the penultimate match, he tied it out for the Preston North End by (0-0). In the last match, lost at home to Sheffield Wednesday by (0-2). This is a team that normally achieves more positive results as a visitor than at home, having won 10 away and 8 points in their home stadium, with 9 goals scored and 14 goals conceded at home, against 10 goals scored and 9 conceded. In the last 9 out of the league Wolverhampton have won 2, 4 draws and 3 losses, having won 10 points out of 27.
For this competition, you do not win as a visitor for 5 games. In the matches played out in the league, the most frequent result at the end of the first 45 ‘was 1-0, which occurred in 4 of his 9 matches. The team allowed their opponents goals in 9 of the last 10 games for this competition, so they have not been very strong defensively. This is a team that scored few times first and they only managed to open the scoring in 4 of their last 18 games in the Championship, of those 4 reached the break in advantage in 2 and won in the late 90 ‘in 3. In 18 games in this competition , Only managed 1 turn on the scoreboard in the 12 games in which he suffered the first goal. In the last 11 away games for all competitions there has been 1 period that stands out: suffered 6 of his 13 goals between the minutes (0’-15 ‘).
The Wolverhampton side arrive at this game with a home defeat by Sheffield Wednesday, 0-2, for the ninth consecutive game without proving the taste of victory. In the away match, coach Paul Lambert is expected to line up in a 4-2-3-1 privileged possession and attacks from the wings: Hélder Costa and Saville are very fast and excellent players in the offensive transition. The offensive sector is one of the most visible problems in the visiting team, having so far scored just 19 goals in 18 games played in the competition. For this game the coach can not count on Graham, Mason, Ola John, Williamson and Zyro, players who recover from injury.
Prediction: over 0.5 goals at HT @ 1.45