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QPR vs Aston Villa
Friday 26.10.2018
Loftus Road
7.45pm Kick off
Games won: 24
Games drawn: 13
Games lost: 21
Ones to remember;
05 Sep 1967 Queens Park Rangers v Aston Villa W 3-0 League Division Two
23 Sep 1989 Aston Villa v Queens Park Rangers W 1-3 League Division One
27 Oct 2014 Queens Park Rangers v Aston Villa W 2-0 Premier League
Ones to forget;
22 Feb 1977 Aston Villa v Queens Park Rangers L 3-0 League Cup
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
Players who have played for both;
Wayne Routledge
2008–2009 Aston Villa 2 (0)
2009–2010 Queens Park Rangers 44 (3)
2011 → Queens Park Rangers (loan) 20 (5)
Richard Dunne
2009–2013 Aston Villa 95 (4)
2013–2015 Queens Park Rangers 64 (1)
Peter Crouch
2000–2001 Queens Park Rangers 42 (10)
2002–2004 Aston Villa 37 (6)
Preview;
These sides had very different nights on Tuesday, with Rangers putting on a good display to see off Sheffield Wednesday 3-0, while Villa lost 2-1 at Norwich. After that result, Villa are three places and two points behind us in 16th place. We'll have to watch out on Friday night for Tammy Abraham and Jonathan Kodjia who both have four goals already this year. However, we now have Freeman, Eze and Hemed all on three each, and a win on Friday night would see us move up to 7th, albeit only until games are played on Saturday. Another win, and Mclaren continuing his current turning around of the teams fortunes, and things could start to look very promising for this season going forward. Don't want to get over excited though.
Villa have now won one in four, and the once European Champions are not looking set for an easy season after missing out on promotion last year despite reaching the playoffs. Under the lights, live on Sky, I really hope we put on another good show against these so called 'big boys.'
From the official:
QPR take on Aston Villa tonight hoping to make it three wins from three games and cap an almost perfect October for Steve McClaren’s side.
The R’s, who comprehensively beat Sheffield Wednesday 3-0 during the week, will be looking to continue their fine month against an Aston Villa side still finding their feet under a new manager.
The last time the two sides met QPR put in what was probably their best performance of the year in an excellent 3-1 victory at Villa Park, which destabilised our opponent’s automatic promotion push.
The side from the Midlands had to then settle for a play-off place and were defeated 1-0 by Fulham in the final.
Truthfully they have probably not yet fully recovered from that and despite keeping manager Steve Bruce for the first quarter of the season, Villa opted to make a change earlier this month.
Dean Smith is now the man in charge, having done a fine job at keeping Brentford competitive during the last few years. A self-confessed Villa fan – Smith seems to have the full backing of an impatient but enormous fan-base.
A win would see Villa overtake QPR in the league table, so there’s much to play for this evening with very little to separate the teams at the top and bottom of the Championship.
And Villa will know they have performed well at Loftus Road since their relegation to this division back in 2016 – with QPR beaten on both occasions in the last couple of campaigns.
COME ON YOU R'ssss!!!!
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