please log in to view this image QPR vs Leicester City The Championship Saturday October 28th at 15:00 Loftus Road please log in to view this image Previous meetings vs Leicester City; Games won: 26 Games drawn: 10 Games lost: 23 Ones to remember; 26 Aug 1948 Queens Park Rangers v Leicester City W 4-1 League Division Two 10 Jan 1987 Queens Park Rangers v Leicester City W 5-2 FA Cup 18 Sep 2010 Leicester City v Queens Park Rangers W 0-2 League Championship 05 Mar 2011 Queens Park Rangers v Leicester City W 1-0 League Championship Ones to forget; 26 Aug 1950 Leicester City v Queens Park Rangers L 6-2 League Division Two 01 Dec 1951 Leicester City v Queens Park Rangers L 4-0 League Division Two 01 Dec 1984 Leicester City v Queens Park Rangers L 4-0 League Division One 05 Apr 2010 Leicester City v Queens Park Rangers L 4-0 League Championship 24 May 2015 Leicester City v Queens Park Rangers L 5-1 Premier League Players who have played for both; Les Ferdinand; 1987–1995 Queens Park Rangers 163 (80) 2003–2004 Leicester City 29 (12) Andy Impey; 1990–1997 Queens Park Rangers 188 (13) 1998–2004 Leicester City 152 (2) Danny Simson; 2013–2014 Queens Park Rangers 37 (0) 2014–2019 Leicester City 113 (0) Match Preview; Our visitors on Saturday have won all but one of their opening 13 games of the season, and therefore sit top with 36 points...already 5 clear of second place Ipswich Town. They have only scored an average of just over two goals a game, a stat they will surely be hoping to improve on Saturday. Their top scorer is Kelechi Iheanacho with 6 goals, with Kiernan Dewsbury-Hall and England striker Jamie Vardy, just behind him with 5 each. A quick look through their squad, and they are oozing quality that is way above this level, and suggests they will walk their way back to the top flight at the first attempt. Their manager, Enzo Maresca, is an Italian who learnt the management ropes as an assistant under Pep Guardiola at Man City, having previously briefly managed Parma for just under 6 months. As for us, I sat through the West Brom game despairing at the lack of ambition, lack of support for Dykes, lack of energy and slick passing that was on display. We now go to face the leagues top team and top scorers with Cook, Clarke-Salter and Fox injured, and Dunne suspended after his silly red on Tuesday night. I fear it isn't going to pretty. Lots calling for a change after Tuesday night, and I am now moving from my optimistic stance to having to agree, a change is needed or else we are heading down. After Rotherham's win last night, we now sit 23rd, on a run of 5 straight defeats. As I mentioned elsewhere, the saddest part for me, is that in times gone by, I would have thought it would be so like QPR to lose 5 in a row, then beat the league leaders, but I just can't see any way of that happening with this group of players being managed by this management team. Sad times. "Against all odds is where I have been all my career...I am not a quitter. What a challenge...Leicester coming is going to be tough. I have never shirked a challenge." "Make sure the fans give their all...because the boys will give everything. We can turn this result...get behind the boys because when you hear the fans you can run more...there is that bit more energy." "I totally understand the fans...we are not the club we were, there have been some huge changes." "Clarke-Salter is injured at the moment, but we'll see where he is on Saturday. I wouldn't like to risk anyone because we have a big game against Rotherham next week and we need points." ...COME ON YOU SUPER HOOPSA!!!
This game.will feature in your "games to forget" column for years in the unlikely event that we play Leucester in the future - two teams heading in completely the opposite direction. To think that we were promoted to the Premier League at the same time and what has happened since to both clubs makes you despair.
I often reflect on that with immense sadness. Another one club town. A factor that appears to be a significant advantage when used wisely.
Given that we're going to lose anyway, I'd rather see some attacking football with some 'ever so nearly moments' rather than yet another game with no shots on target.
I'm taking a positive outlook on this game. Hopefully, we get flogged and the manager is sent on his way. The season is still young, people. We can still ride the out and with a change of managers, there is new hope....... and the chance to survive. We can do this, we just need to act on it, now.
If it even crosses anyone’s mind to say ‘it would be just like QPR for us to win this’ please reflect carefully before sharing that thought. Because it really wouldn’t. It would be just like QPR to concede at least 3 and score none just like we have for the last year at home, and increasingly away. Any other result would be a complete one off fluke and we all know it. Cheers Dave
Three strikers with 16 goals between them! THREE strikers!! 16 goals. Amazing concept. Didn’t know you could have 3 strikers as a team. Well done Dave.
This could be anything Leicester want it to be. 3,4,5,6,7....all depends when they decide to rest some players.
We forfeit our games and GA does a pitch side gig of his new album each week (which you can then buy in the club shop where he and the band will be signing your CD or vinyl copy for a collectors piece and family heirloom of the 2023/24 season). There may be t-shirts too.
Nothing. Unless Ainsworth decides to walk (which would be insanity for him and his family’s financial security, but perhaps necessary for his mental health). My football financial advisor ie Roller who really knows his stuff, thinks it ‘likely’ though unprovable without access to the books and latest FFP submissions, that paying off Ainsworth and Dobson would put us in breach again. If the board has accepted relegation as inevitable (and it’s only the chance of one season ending just in time that we haven’t been relegated already) they would probably prefer not to start next season with a points deduction, a fine, a transfer embargo and having to work to an EFL set financial plan. They probably want to start next season by selling as many players as possible. If true, and we can’t know for certain, perhaps these people really think Ainsworth can turn it round (a pretty worrying scenario in itself), this is a ****ing disgrace. Perhaps we needed to bribe a manager with a nuts contract to take us over last season, a contract that could wreck the club even further, but to set this up with a manager like Ainsworth is completely deranged. In the last 20 years we have only had 2 managers who have lasted more than three years (Warburton beat it by a whole 24 days, and Ollie was long term when we had absolutely no money and were in League One…..). The chances of having to pay off the manager were always huge, and if the consequences were known it seems reckless in the extreme to me. As a result of the way this club is run we now have to sit through an entire, endless, miserable season waiting for the inevitable which everyone in the club seems to have accepted.
They'll notice it when the numbers coming through the gates drop (which they will) and when the crowd turn (which they already have). It's a disgrace. I've always been supportive of our board and the money that they put in to the club month after month, but this seems ludicrous and heading for financial suicide. I've also never been one to call for a managers head as stability is a good base to work from but Ainsworth is taking us down and no amount of positive spin he puts in is going to change that - he's so out of his depth it's mindblowing he got the gig in the first place. The players also need to take a good long look at themselves....I think they pulled a ****s trick on Critchley after the snake left and threw him under the bus, and they're totally disengaged with whatever bollocks Ainsworth is trying to sell them. The whole set-up makes me sick, and I'm totally tuned out this season - it was bad enough in the Premier League when we were getting dicked by the big boys, but getting arse ****ed by teams like Blackburn and Watford is beyond humiliating. Something needs to change, and rapid, or this ship is gonna sink faster than the Titanic with Ainsworth still conducting the band
If Hoos allowed a 3 year contract for Ainsworth, with no escape because of FFP, he's an even bigger twat than I've always thought he is.
Just as an aside Dave, shouldn't the 5-1 tonking in 2015 be in the games to forget rather than games to remember? You could add the 4-2 win in our glorious League Cup winning season as a replacement...... I just hope they declare at 0-5 on Saturday.......
