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Saturday 3rd March, 2018 3pm
Location: Villa Park
Capacity : 42, 785
Distance from headquarters;
2h16 by car down the M40
2h30 by train out of Euston
10h33 and 126 miles by bike, you never know.
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Played 57 times
One to remember;
The only time I could find that we beat them by more than a two goal margin;
05 Sep 1967 Queens Park Rangers v Aston Villa W 3-0 League Division Two
One of the few we won in the top flight;
27 Oct 2014 Queens Park Rangers v Aston Villa W 2-0 Premier League
One to forget;
27 Apr 1985 Aston Villa v Queens Park Rangers L 5-2 League Division One
14 Aug 1993 Aston Villa v Queens Park Rangers L 4-1 Premier League
Plus we have lost the last three meetings.
Players who have played for both clubs;
Crouch (42 for us, 10 goals and 37 for them, 6 goals) Routledge (44 for us, 3 goals and 2 games for them), and Jermaine Jenas (3 games for them, 38 games for us, 4 goals)
Preview;
You can really learn a lot of what you need to know about these two sides from looking at the top scorers this season for both clubs. You have to go to Villa's third top scorer, Scott Hogan (8), to find a player who equals our top scorer, Matt Smith. Villa have scored 53 this season, to our 38 and so Saturday is sure to be a tough afternoon for our defence.
Villa are hopeful that Jack Grealish and Albert Adomah could return on Saturday, both having missed the last three games through injury. Adomah is their top scorer (14), and although I'd not want to wish an injury on a player, hamstrings are very temperamental, so it could go again at any point in the warm up, which would be a shame. Grealish has had a calf complaint, which backs up the theory all of us Londoners have that everyone who lives outside of London must be a farmer (
sorry). As for us, other than the long term injury to Wheeler, there isn't a huge amount to report. Robinson returned on Saturday, but other than that we seem to have quite a healthy squad to choose from at the moment (cue numerous posts stating injuries that I have missed). It isn't exactly a dream fixture for us after last weekends result, which even the club hasn't bothered to try and be positive about, describing it on the official site as a 'Day to forget for QPR.' I can see one of two approaches on Saturday. Negatively, we could set up to limit the defeat. After last Saturday, we don't want another thumping, and would rather walk away having frustrated them for most of the game and narrowly lost, as opposed to conceding four or five again. I would rather see us go there and have a go, even it still means we lose. We have the players to cause trouble, and if well set up, I reckon we can give any other team in this division a tough game. Who knows, if we have a go, we might even get something, but you gotta be in it to win it.
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