Balanced ball game between Luton Town and Queens Park Rangers expected

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Competition: England Championship
Competition: Sat 02.January
Match begins: 15:00 (UTC)
Venue: Kenilworth Road Stadium (10226 seats)

The home fans are expecting three points in this fixture, as the home advantage should be put to good use versus a struggling visitor. Luton Town are in the 13th position while the guesting Queens Park Rangers worry at 19th.

Insights:
  • Luton Town have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
  • Queens Park Rangers have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.

There’s little time for restitution or working hard at the training pitch these days, with both teams having played their last game less than four days ago.

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Luton Town form and stats

When playing at home in the Championship, Luton Town have managed 5 wins, 4 draws and suffered 2 defeats from 11 games.

The Luton Town supporters enjoyed the previous match, watching their team host Bristol City in Championship and win 2-1. Prior to that was the away defeat visiting Reading (1-2).

This is expected to be a close game, with Luton Town perhaps considered small favourites due to their home advantage. Looking back at earlier matches similar to this one (expected to be close with Luton Town as a small favourite), we find 13 games. Luton Town has won six of these, drawn four and lost three.

Luton are certainly not overdoing their scoring at home in league matches, having created 15 goals in 11 games. Luton have conceded 11 in these home matches. There's been improvement defensively lately, as only 1 of these goals has been conceded in their last 3 home matches.

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Queens Park Rangers form and stats

The hunting on away grounds haven’t been very fruitful for Queens Park Rangers so far with only 8 points returning home. The records show 1-5-5 (win-draw-lose). It's three draws from Queens Park Rangers's last three away games, a decent catch but one that could be so much better.

Queens Park Rangers has to pack their bags again for the second away game in a row. Last time they traveled to Norwich City for a Championship game that ended a draw (1-1). A 0-2 loss hosting Swansea City before that.

Goalkeeper Seny Dieng made a total of six saves, making him a hero against Norwich City. Heavily contributing to the draw after 90 minutes.

As mentioned above, this is an open game with no clear favourite. We have found twelve similar matches played by Queens Park Rangers in our archives, and the results are: two wins for Queens Park Rangers, three draws and seven defeats.

Many goals are not expected from the visiting QPR as they have only managed to score 9 times from 11 away games in the league. QPR struggle to build an impenetrable defensive wall in away matches with a total of 17 goals conceded from these games.

Head 2 Head

Luton Town-Queens Park Rangers H2H statistics last eight meetings regardless of arena: Luton two wins, Queens Park Rangers four wins, two draws. four of these eight matches had three or more goals (over 2,5).

Top Goalscorers

Luton TownJ. Collins
J. Collins
6 goals
Queens Park RangersI. Chair
I. Chair
5 goals
Queens Park RangersL. Dykes
L. Dykes
5 goals

Luton Town missing players

Queens Park Rangers missing players

Luton Town Queens Park Rangers
Total Home vs low Statistics Stat vs mid Away Total
22 11 4 Played P 3 11 22
8 5 2 Won W 0 1 4
6 4 2 Drew D 1 5 9
8 2 0 Lost L 2 5 9
20 15 6 Scored S 2 9 20
24 11 3 Conceded C 6 17 30
91% 91% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 91% 86%
68% 91% 100% Over 1.5 O 1.5 100% 82% 77%
32% 45% 25% Over 2.5 O 2.5 33% 36% 32%
9% 9% 0% Over 3.5 O 3.5 33% 18% 18%
0% 0% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 9% 14%
36% 55% 75% BTTS BTTS 67% 64% 55%
32% 27% 25% Clean Sheets C S 0% 18% 23%
41% 27% 0% Failed to Score F T 33% 27% 36%
 
0 0 0 Corners for (avg) C F 0 0 0
0 0 0 Corners against (avg) C A 0 0 0
1.5 1.2 1.8 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 2.7 2.3 1.7
1 0 0 Red cards R C 0 2 2
 
9.2 11.5 11 Shots (avg) S ( 9 10.3 11.3
2.4 3.6 3.2 Shots on Target (avg) S O 4 3.5 3.1
38% 38% 46% Goal Efficiency G E 17% 24% 29%
Key stats in Championship this season:
  • Luton Town have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
  • Queens Park Rangers have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.

  Total Home Away  
# Team MP W D L F A MP W D L F A MP W D L F A +/- P
1 Norwich City 22 13 5 4 30 20 11 6 4 1 14 8 11 7 1 3 16 12 10 44
2 Swansea City 21 11 6 4 25 12 10 6 3 1 13 4 11 5 3 3 12 8 13 39
3 AFC Bournemouth 20 10 8 2 35 16 10 7 2 1 20 8 10 3 6 1 15 8 19 38
4 Brentford 21 10 8 3 34 20 10 4 5 1 16 10 11 6 3 2 18 10 14 38
5 Watford 21 10 7 4 24 15 11 8 2 1 20 9 10 2 5 3 4 6 9 37
6 Reading 21 11 3 7 32 27 11 7 0 4 16 12 10 4 3 3 16 15 5 36
7 Stoke City 22 9 8 5 26 21 11 5 3 3 17 16 11 4 5 2 9 5 5 35
8 Barnsley 22 10 4 8 27 28 11 6 2 3 14 11 11 4 2 5 13 17 -1 34
9 Middlesbrough 21 9 6 6 25 17 10 7 2 1 15 4 11 2 4 5 10 13 8 33
10 Bristol City 22 10 3 9 23 24 11 5 2 4 10 10 11 5 1 5 13 14 -1 33
11 Preston North End 22 10 2 10 30 30 11 4 1 6 10 12 11 6 1 4 20 18 0 32
12 Huddersfield Town 22 9 4 9 27 30 11 7 1 3 16 9 11 2 3 6 11 21 -3 31
13 Luton Town 22 8 6 8 20 24 11 5 4 2 15 11 11 3 2 6 5 13 -4 30
14 Blackburn Rovers 22 8 5 9 36 27 11 5 3 3 18 12 11 3 2 6 18 15 9 29
15 Cardiff City 22 8 5 9 29 25 11 4 2 5 18 14 11 4 3 4 11 11 4 29
16 Millwall 20 5 10 5 17 18 10 1 7 2 8 10 10 4 3 3 9 8 -1 25
17 Coventry City 22 5 8 9 20 30 11 4 5 2 12 13 11 1 3 7 8 17 -10 23
18 Birmingham City 22 5 8 9 17 27 11 2 2 7 8 19 11 3 6 2 9 8 -10 23
19 Queens Park Rangers 22 4 9 9 20 30 11 3 4 4 11 13 11 1 5 5 9 17 -10 21
20 Derby County 21 4 7 10 14 23 11 1 4 6 5 14 10 3 3 4 9 9 -9 19
21 Nottingham Forest 22 4 7 11 15 26 11 3 4 4 10 11 11 1 3 7 5 15 -11 19
22 Sheffield Wednesday 22 5 7 10 14 23 11 3 5 3 8 8 11 2 2 7 6 15 -9 16
23 Rotherham United 20 4 4 12 19 29 10 3 2 5 12 12 10 1 2 7 7 17 -10 16
24 Wycombe Wanderers 22 3 6 13 15 32 11 2 4 5 7 11 11 1 2 8 8 21 -17 15

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The English Football League Championship (usually shortened to the Championship) is the second highest division in the English football league system. 24 teams play 46 fixtures from August to May, meeting each other twice. The Championship is the wealthiest second-level division in the world.