Saturday 10th March 2018 3pm Kick off Loftus Road please log in to view this image Record vs Sunderland; Games won: 13 Games drawn: 8 Games lost: 14 One to remember; A win in the top flight; 09 Mar 2013 Queens Park Rangers v Sunderland W 3-1 Premier League One to forget; Biggest recorded loss was a while ago in the FA Cup; 05 Jan 1957 Sunderland v Queens Park Rangers L 4-0 FA Cup Match preview; So, I must confess, I have a bit of a soft spot for Sunderland. I had a maths teacher at school who was an ex-Sunderland player. When I was 12/13, he caught me and a QPR mate doing a dream team during his lesson once, confiscated the paper and after school gave it back to us with all the names crossed out and replaced with Sunderland players. They also won me over, as they did lots of others, in the way they took in Bradley Lowery and gave him such special moments in his far too short life. They also remind me a bit of us, a team that rightly or wrongly feel they are a much bigger club than their current position deserves, rock bottom of the Championship. Our visitors will be hoping John O'Shea will be fit again. Tyias Browning is out for the rest of the season with a groin strain, Marc Wilson is back in training but not yet fit, and Jake Clarke-Salter is completing a three match ban. Full-back Adam Matthews missed out in midweek through injury and Robbin Ruiter, Paddy McNair, Darron Gibson and Duncan Watmore continue their respective recoveries. As for us, Baptiste should be fit again having missed out on Tuesday, and the youngsters (Eze, Furlong and Smyth) will hope to make appearances having all featured on Tuesday night. However, Jamie Mackie (back), Idrissa Sylla (calf), Grant Hall (knee) and David Wheeler (ankle) are all out. As others have already pointed out below, surely nothing less than all three points will do tomorrow. These stats (from Sky Sports) make grim reading for Sunderland, but surely leave us with realistic hope of all three points; - Sunderland have collected five points in their last 11 league visits to London (P11 W1 D2 L8). - The Hoops haven't lost a home Championship match against a side starting the day bottom of the league since April 2006 against Crewe Alexandra (W4 D1 since). - Since the start of last season, Sunderland have started the day in the relegation zone on the day of 61 of their 74 league matches (82% of their total games), including 25 of their last 27 Championship matches. All that said, we are talking about QPR here, and as we all know all too well, nothing is guaranteed until the final whistle has blown. Jealous of those going tomorrow. I haven't seen who is being inducted into the Forever R's tomorrow, if anyone.
As mentioned on another thread, I hope that we continue with the formation, team and style of play that we finished the Derby match (but with Smith instead of Lynch of course). If we play an adventorous formation and stay focused in defence, then I expect we will win, plus hopefully comfortably. I also wish that we don't do anything stupid that involved getting a red card and being reduces to 10 men, as that would be a disastrous scenario and so typical of QPR. I am already looking forward to the watching the match (on QPR+). COYR's!!!
Let's hope nerves don't kick in. They will be desperate which is a concern but I think the lads will be fine. A win will produce a good confidence boost after a deserved draw against Derby and we might even go on to get an unexpected result against Villa.
I am the eternal optimist but this has got “Classic Rangers Slip-Up” potential. Hopefully energy levels will be up...
Very true! The team need to stay calm and control their emotions. A nightmare scenario would be a red card. Let's hope that the team and youngsters' stay very professional .
I can see us losing this match by 2 goals Why because this league makes little sense Come to think of it nor do I
this has 0-2 written all over it. Sunderland will come good for once - then revert to being pony next week
We do have the knack of folding against teams who have been poor up till playing us....let's hope we don't add Sunderland to the already large list...
Sunderland share the same knack - but seeing as we have no fit defenders and we just can't defend then you might be safe.
Have faith & stop negativity, we will win & don’t care how they go in or by what score, looking forward to watching it, well hope so.
