Championship preview: Can Queens Park Rangers edge out victory against Reading?

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Competition: England Championship
Competition: Fri 07.October
Match begins: 19:00 (UTC)
Venue: Kiyan Prince Foundation Stadium (18000 seats)

The Queens Park Rangers & Reading head coaches Beale and Ince are both dreading and feeling excited about this important match in the top regions of the Championship table.

Insights:
  • Queens Park Rangers have won significantly more corners at home than away.
  • Reading have conceded at least twice as many goals as they have scored away.

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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Queens Park Rangers form and stats

2 victories, 2 draws and 1 defeat. That’s what Queens Park Rangers have to build on here at Kiyan Prince Foundation Stadium in the Championship.

Happy days for Queens Park Rangers in their previous game, a fixture away at Sheffield United (placed 1st) that ended with a 1-0 victory. Goalkeeper Dieng got the top rating on the team in that game; 8.13 out of ten. Dieng topped it up with a clean sheet.

A strong away win before that one, visiting Bristol City and winning 2-1.

The home team are moderate favourites in this game. How does Queens Park Rangers handle that role? We have found 12 games in our database similar to this one, based on the home odds. The stats for these games are 4 wins, 6 draws and 2 defeats.

QPR has scored 7 league goals at home this season, in 5 matches.

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Reading form and stats

Playing away, Reading have won 2 games, drawn 0 and suffered 3 defeats in the Championship this season.

There were no winners in Reading's previous match, the home game that ended 1-1 vs Norwich City (placed 2nd). Midfielder Hendrick was the best performer of that match, with a rating of 7.2. Hendrick scored one goal and dribled past the opponent 1 of 1 times.

A home win before that, celebrating 3-1 vs Huddersfield Town.

We have checked recent matches where Reading have had similar odds to win. Win-draw-lose statistics from those 12 games were 4 victories, 1 draw and 7 defeats.

There's been a serious shortage of goals from Reading's away games in the league this season with only 2 goals from 5 matches. Reading struggle to build an impenetrable defensive wall in away matches with a total of 9 goals conceded from these games.

Head 2 Head

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

Top Goalscorers

Queens Park RangersC. Willock
C. Willock
6 goals
Queens Park RangersI. Chair
I. Chair
3 goals
ReadingL. Santos João
L. Santos João
3 goals

Queens Park Rangers missing players

Reading missing players

Queens Park Rangers Reading
Total Home vs top Statistics Stat vs top Away Total
12 5 0 Played P 1 5 12
6 2 0 Won W 0 2 7
3 2 0 Drew D 0 0 1
3 1 0 Lost L 1 3 4
17 7 0 Scored S 0 2 14
12 5 0 Conceded C 4 9 16
92% 80% 0% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 100% 100%
58% 60% 0% Over 1.5 O 1.5 100% 40% 67%
42% 40% 0% Over 2.5 O 2.5 100% 40% 58%
33% 40% 0% Over 3.5 O 3.5 100% 40% 25%
17% 20% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 0% 0%
50% 60% 0% BTTS BTTS 0% 0% 33%
25% 20% 0% Clean Sheets C S 0% 40% 33%
33% 40% 0% Failed to Score F T 100% 60% 33%
 
3.8 5.2 0 Corners for (avg) C F 5 5.2 4.5
5.2 4.6 0 Corners against (avg) C A 3 3 4
1.4 1.6 0 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 0 1 1.9
0 0 0 Red cards R C 0 0 0
 
12.6 14.4 0 Shots (avg) S ( 6 8.2 9.1
3.9 5.4 0 Shots on Target (avg) S O 0 2.6 2.9
36% 26% 0% Goal Efficiency G E 0% 15% 40%
 
11.8 9.4 0 Shots against (avg) S A 17 12 10.8
3.6 2.6 0 Shots on Target against (avg) S O 7 3.4 2.9
Key stats in Championship this season:
  • Queens Park Rangers have scored at least twice as many goals at home as Reading have scored away.
  • Queens Park Rangers have won significantly more corners at home than away.
  • Reading have conceded at least twice as many goals as they have scored away.
  • Reading haven’t played a single 0-0 game.

  Total Home Away  
# Team MP W D L F A MP W D L F A MP W D L F A +/- P
1 Sheffield United 12 7 3 2 20 7 6 4 1 1 12 3 6 3 2 1 8 4 13 24
2 Norwich City 12 7 3 2 18 10 6 4 2 0 12 5 6 3 1 2 6 5 8 24
3 Reading 12 7 1 4 14 16 7 5 1 1 12 7 5 2 0 3 2 9 -2 22
4 Queens Park Rangers 12 6 3 3 17 12 5 2 2 1 7 5 7 4 1 2 10 7 5 21
5 Burnley 12 4 7 1 19 12 6 2 4 0 10 7 6 2 3 1 9 5 7 19
6 Swansea City 12 5 3 4 15 15 6 2 1 3 6 8 6 3 2 1 9 7 0 18
7 Blackburn Rovers 12 6 0 6 13 15 6 4 0 2 9 6 6 2 0 4 4 9 -2 18
8 Sunderland 12 4 5 3 16 11 6 1 4 1 6 4 6 3 1 2 10 7 5 17
9 Luton Town 12 4 5 3 16 13 7 1 4 2 9 9 5 3 1 1 7 4 3 17
10 Watford 12 4 5 3 16 13 6 3 1 2 9 8 6 1 4 1 7 5 3 17
11 Preston North End 12 3 7 2 4 4 7 1 4 2 2 4 5 2 3 0 2 0 0 16
12 Wigan Athletic 11 4 4 3 12 13 5 0 3 2 3 8 6 4 1 1 9 5 -1 16
13 Rotherham United 11 3 6 2 13 9 7 3 3 1 12 5 4 0 3 1 1 4 4 15
14 Bristol City 12 4 3 5 20 18 6 3 1 2 9 5 6 1 2 3 11 13 2 15
15 Cardiff City 12 4 3 5 9 12 6 3 2 1 5 3 6 1 1 4 4 9 -3 15
16 Millwall 12 4 2 6 13 17 6 4 0 2 9 6 6 0 2 4 4 11 -4 14
17 Hull City 12 4 2 6 13 24 7 4 0 3 9 12 5 0 2 3 4 12 -11 14
18 Middlesbrough 12 3 4 5 14 16 7 3 3 1 9 7 5 0 1 4 5 9 -2 13
19 Birmingham City 12 3 4 5 9 12 5 1 2 2 4 5 7 2 2 3 5 7 -3 13
20 Stoke City 12 3 4 5 12 16 5 1 2 2 5 8 7 2 2 3 7 8 -4 13
21 Blackpool 12 3 3 6 10 16 5 1 1 3 4 6 7 2 2 3 6 10 -6 12
22 West Bromwich Albion 12 1 7 4 17 18 6 1 3 2 11 10 6 0 4 2 6 8 -1 10
23 Huddersfield Town 11 2 2 7 13 19 6 2 1 3 7 7 5 0 1 4 6 12 -6 8
24 Coventry City 9 1 4 4 8 13 2 1 0 1 1 1 7 0 4 3 7 12 -5 7

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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.