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Middlesbrough vs QPR
The Championship
Wednesday 18th August at 7:45pm
The Riverside
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By car: 4 hours 26 minutes and 252 miles up the M1
By train: 4 hours 7 minutes around the Circle or Hammersmith and City line to Kings Cross and then mainline up to Edingburgh, get off at York and get the Transpennine Express to Middlesbrough, then the V1 train to Hudson Quay. What a faff.
By bike: National Cycle route 6, 274 miles in 24 hours. Simple.
By plane: London Heathrow to Newcastle International Airport...then I guess a train or a taxi?
Previous meetings;
Games won: 20
Games drawn: 17
Games lost: 18
Ones to remember;
06 Sep 1966 Queens Park Rangers v Middlesbrough W 4-0 League Division Three
04 Oct 1969 Queens Park Rangers v Middlesbrough W 4-0 League Division Two
05 Mar 1983 Queens Park Rangers v Middlesbrough W 6-1 League Division Two
04 Mar 1998 Queens Park Rangers v Middlesbrough W 5-0 League Division 1
Ones to forget;
26 Sep 1970 Middlesbrough v Queens Park Rangers L 6-2 League Division Two
05 Dec 2009 Queens Park Rangers v Middlesbrough L 1-5 League Championship
20 Jan 2018 Queens Park Rangers v Middlesbrough L 0-3 League Championship
Players who have played for both;
John O'Rourke
1966–1968 Middlesbrough 64 (38)
1971–1974 Q.P.R. 34 (12)
Mikkel Beck;
1996–1999 Middlesbrough 91 (24)
2000 → Queens Park Rangers (loan) 11 (4)
Kieron Dyer;
2011–2013 Queens Park Rangers 5 (0)
2013 Middlesbrough 9 (2)
Fabio Da Silva
2012–2013 → Queens Park Rangers (loan) 21 (0)
2016–2018 Middlesbrough 48 (1)
Alex Baptiste
2015–2017 Middlesbrough 0 (0)
2017–2019 Queens Park Rangers 30 (0)
Luke Young
2007–2008 Middlesbrough 35 (1)
2011–2014 Queens Park Rangers 24 (2)
Ravel Morrison
2014 → Queens Park Rangers (loan) 15 (6)
2017 → Queens Park Rangers (loan) 5 (0)
2020 → Middlesbrough (loan) 3 (0)
Gary O'Neil
2007–2011 Middlesbrough 109 (8)
2013–2014 Queens Park Rangers 29 (1)
Jordan Hugill
2018–2019 → Middlesbrough (loan) 37 (6)
2019–2020 → Queens Park Rangers (loan) 39 (13)
Grant Hall;
2015–2020 Queens Park Rangers 119 (6)
2020– Middlesbrough 19 (2)
Joe Lumley;
2013–2021 Queens Park Rangers 77 (0)
2021— Middlesbrough 1 (0)
Managed both;
Neil Warnock;
2010–2012 Queens Park Rangers
2015 Queens Park Rangers (caretaker)
2020– Middlesbrough
Steve McLaren;
2001–2006 Middlesbrough
2018 - 2019 QPR
Match Preview;
Surprisingly, no team in the Championship has won both of their opening games, which really shows how competitive the division is. QPR, along with our opponents on Wednesday night, Middlesbrough, are two of ten teams on 4 points, with only Forest and Preston yet to get on the score board.
Boro's manager, Neil Warnock, is fondly remembered for his Championship winning season at QPR, and he along with his long time assistants, Kevin Blackwell and Ronnie Jepson, have bought in Joe Lumley (from us), Sammy Ameobi (from Forest) and Sol Bamba (from Cardiff). Given Warnock's record in the Championship they must surely be hopeful about going into this season, and they look to have a decent squad.
As for us, a win and a draw has been a decent start to the year, and a win, or even a draw will really raise hopes from this year. Saturday's 3-0 win against Hull was very encouraging. It was a relatively close game if you just look at the stats, with Hull having 45% possession, and 12 shots compared to our 14, but we managed to convert our chances into goals. Lovely stuff.
I'll add team news and manager's thoughts when they go on the official.
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