Match Day Thread QPR vs Portsmouth

Previous history vs Portsmouth;
Games won: 15
Games drawn: 14
Games lost: 13

Ones to remember;
31 Mar 1973 Queens Park Rangers v Portsmouth W 5-0 League Division Two
06 Oct 1981 Queens Park Rangers v Portsmouth W 5-0 League Cup
22 Mar 1997 Queens Park Rangers v Portsmouth W 2-1 League Division 1 - added because I clearly remember looking across the ground and seeing fights break out in The Ellerslie Road stand.

Ones to forget;
05 Jan 1924 Portsmouth v Queens Park Rangers L 7-0 Division Three (South)
13 Jan 1962 Portsmouth v Queens Park Rangers L 4-1 League Division Three
31 Aug 1998 Portsmouth v Queens Park Rangers L 3-0 League Division 1

Players who have played for both;
John McClelland;
1961–1963 Queens Park Rangers 71 (22)
1963–1968 Portsmouth 137 (36

Brett Angell;
1986–1987 Portsmouth 0 (0)
2002–2003 Queens Park Rangers 13 (0)

Mark Hateley;
1983–1984 Portsmouth 38 (22)
1995–1997 Queens Park Rangers 27 (3)

Paul Walsh;
1991 → Queens Park Rangers (loan) 2 (0)
1992–1994 Portsmouth 73 (14)

Nigel Quashie;
1995–1998 Queens Park Rangers 57 (3)
2000–2005 Portsmouth 148 (13)
2010 Queens Park Rangers 4 (0)

Jerome Thomas;
2002 → Queens Park Rangers (loan) 4 (1)
2002 → Queens Park Rangers (loan) 6 (2)
2008 → Portsmouth (loan) 1 (0)
2008–2009 Portsmouth 2 (0)

Peter Crouch
2000–2001 Queens Park Rangers 42 (10)
2001–2002 Portsmouth 37 (18)

Rowan Vine;
2000–2005 Portsmouth 13 (0)
2007–2008 → Queens Park Rangers (loan) 18 (4)
2008–2012 Queens Park Rangers 51 (5)

Gary O'Neil
2000–2007 Portsmouth 174 (16)
2013–2014 Queens Park Rangers 29 (1)

Shaun Derry
2000–2002 Portsmouth 49 (1)
2010–2013 Queens Park Rangers 92 (1)

John Curtis;
2004–2005 Portsmouth 7 (0)
2007 Queens Park Rangers 4 (0)

Asmir Begovic
2005–2010 Portsmouth 11 (0)
2023–2024 Queens Park Rangers 45 (0)

Niko Kranjcar;
2006–2009 Portsmouth 83 (9)
2013–2015 → Queens Park Rangers (loan) 51 (4)

Wayne Routledge
2006 → Portsmouth (loan) 13 (0)
2009–2010 Queens Park Rangers 44 (3)

Michael Craine;
2007–2009 Portsmouth 2 (0)
2007 → Queens Park Rangers (loan) 6 (0)

John Curtis;
2004–2005 Portsmouth 7 (0)
2007 Queens Park Rangers 4 (0)

Ben Sahar;
2007 → Queens Park Rangers (loan) 9 (0)
2008 → Portsmouth (loan) 0 (0)

Patrick Agyemnang;
2008–2012 Queens Park Rangers 75 (15)
2013 → Portsmouth (loan) 15 (3)
2013–2015 Portsmouth 49 (4)

Lee Brown;
2008–2011 Queens Park Rangers 1 (0)
2018–2022 Portsmouth 111 (6)

Tal Ben Haim;
2009–2012 Portsmouth 55 (0)
2013 Queens Park Rangers 3 (0)

Tommy Smith;
2009–2010 Portsmouth 19 (1)
2010–2012 Queens Park Rangers 50 (8)

Brian Murphy
2011–2015 Queens Park Rangers 2 (0)
2015–2016 Portsmouth 21 (0)

Cole Kpekawa;
2014-2016 Queens Parks Rangers 6 (0)
→Porstmouth (Loan) 2 (0)

David Wheeler;
2017–2019 Queens Park Rangers 9 (1)
2018–2019 → Portsmouth (loan) 11 (0)

Yang Min-hyoek;
2025 → Queens Park Rangers (loan) 14 (2)
2025–2026 → Portsmouth (loan) 15 (3)

Jordan Archer;
2021-2024 : Queens Park Rangers 0 (0)
2024 - Portsmouth 2 (0)

Andre Dozzell;
2021-2024 ( Queens Park Rangers 88 (2)
2024 - Portsmouth 66 (3)

Managed both;
Jim Smith;
1985-1988 - Queens Park Rangers
1991-1995 - Portsmouth

Kenny Jackett;
1997-2000 - Queens Park Rangers Assistant Manager
2017-2021 - Portsmoth

Harry Rednkapp;
2002-2004 - Portsmouth
2012-2015 - Queens Park Rangers

Paul Hart;
2009 Portsmouth
2009–2010 Queens Park Rangers

Match Preview;
After a splendid win away at Leicester, we next welcome Portsmouth to HQ this Saturday. That win leaves us 16th, eleven points ahead of the relegation spots, and ten points behind 6th place...pretty much the definition of mid-table. Given the squad he's had to work with, the injuries we've had and the lack of goal scoring strikers, I don't think we can be too grumpy about this, and I've reached a point of accepting it'll be another season of picking up a few new faces over the summer, and hoping for better next year. Lots of talk this week about Celar, and a likely move away in the summer (see article link below), but no clear idea where he's heading. With Kone showing glimpses of promise, and Burrell hopefully back soon, I'm confident we have the makings of a decent front two, but I'm potentially being rather overly optimistic about Kone. Discuss.

As for our visitors, they'll be desperate for a win, given they sit 20th, just one point above the relegation zone. They lost 0-1 to Derby last night, so haven't had the rest our players have had this week. They've lost four and drawn one in their last five, their last win coming on February 21st away at Millwall. Their top scorer is Adrian Segecic, with 6 goals so far, and in total they've only scored 36, joint second worst in the division alongside Charlton, Blackburn and Oxford. Their manager is John Michael Lewis Mousinho, who took over in January 2023 immediately after retiring from playing at Oxford United. Since then, he's managed to get Pompey back to the Championship, winning League One in 2024, and led them to safety in their first season back. An interesting stat nicked off wikipedia...at the start of the 2025/26 season, he was the only manager in charge of a Championship club to have been in his post at the beginning of the previous season. Craziness.

Team news and manager comments to go up when on the official, enjoy if you'll make it to HQ, and as always...

...COME ON YOU SUPER HOOPSA!!!

The article concerned the Zan Celar situation;