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Stoke vs QPR Prediction & Betting tips
The Stoke City FC is again aiming for promotion to the Premier League. The first step on this way should be a victory against QPR at the start! In the past season, the Potters missed the target clearly and were in the end only in 16th place. The Queens Park Rangers were still three places lower, which was the cause of a shaky defensive with the fourth-most goals conceded. For their part, the hosts once again have one of the most expensive cadres in the British House of Commons and are once again considered candidates for promotion.
Even the Hardcore fans of the Hoops are hardly concerned with such planning games after several beers. The team has dropped several important offensive players in the summer and money for adequate replacement has been less available than the home side Stoke-on-Trent. No wonder the hosts are in pole position in the Stoke-QPR match in terms of odds. Our tip follows this judgment and includes a home victory as a forecast.
Stoke:
After the tenth anniversary of the first-class adventure Stoke City had to say goodbye to the upper house of British football in the penultimate season and then compete in the Championship. For the relegated jumped on the return only one rank in the lower midfield. It was a disappointing placement, especially against the background that the Potters had made the most expensive squad in the league. This year, Stoke, together with the recent drop-offs Fulham FC and Huddersfield Town, is again at the top in this ranking.
Coach Nathan Nathan Jones, who has been in office since the beginning of this year, was delighted to receive a number of additions in the summer, including defender Tommy Smith from the relegated Huddersfield Terriers. In particular, the defensive of the winner of the League Cup 1972 was set up more or less completely new.
The real permanent construction site last year, however, was the offensive: It showed the third worst yield of all 24 teams in the championship. Stoke scored less than a goal on average in the past season. Newcomers Lee Gregory of Milwall and Nick Powell of Wigan Athletic are to change this shortcoming. Both strikers belonged in the preseason in each case to the best marksmen of their ex-clubs.
The financial powder for transfers, however, was already overshadowed in the last season, as Stoke with Benik Afobe of the Wolves and Tom Ince of Huddersfield equaled two attacking players for a double-digit million euro amount. However, the players can at most be certified a solid first season with the founding member of the Football League. Especially fast, however, Nick Powell has settled in Stoke. The 25-year-old scored the only goal for his new employer, who lost 2-1 at his first outing in the final friendly against Leicester.
QPR:
Coach Mark Warburton now has the sporting legend at the Loftus Road. The 57-year-old joined the post in May of this year and inherited Steve McLaren, who took his hat after just one season. Warburton is very familiar with football in the championship. He has already coached Brentford FC or Nottingham Forest in the past. In addition, Warburton led in Scotland in 2016 the Rangers from Glasgow back to first class and took them in the same year the Scottish League Challenge Cup.
The Londoners recorded in summer but some painful departures by the end of lending or transfers. In this context, the offensive trio from Nahki Wells of the Bermudas, Tomer Hemed from Israel and the British Luke Freeman deserve special mention. All three are now kicking out of Premier League clubs, making it clear that QPR has suffered a huge loss of quality in the game forward. This assessment is further substantiated by the numbers from last season, when the three professionals were the top scorers in the runner-up in 1976.
On the other hand, looking at the offensive reinforcements of the Blue-White, it quickly becomes clear that this bloodletting could not be compensated. Newcomers like 23-year-old Luke Amos, came from Tottenham, where he only completed one game the previous year, or 20-year-old Jan Mlakar are more likely to bet on the future. The latter attacker scored 50 per cent in his 26 appearances in the Slovenian Prva Liga at NK Maribor, but the level of this league is, of course, only partially comparable to the requirements of the championship – not to mention the more rustic defensive work on the island, which awaits the youngster from Slovenia. Overall, the squad seems much weaker compared to the hosts, which is why the Stoke against QPR odds tend toward a home win.
Stoke vs QPR head to head matches
09.03.19 CHA QPR Stoke 0 : 0
24.11.18 CHA Stoke QPR 2 : 2
31.01.15 PL Stoke QPR 3 : 1
20.09.14 PL QPR Stoke 2 : 2
20.04.13 PL QPR Stoke 0 : 2