Match Day Thread QPR vs Luton Town

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QPR vs Luton Town
Saturday 14th September - 3pm
Kiyan Prince Foundation Stadium

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Previous history v Luton Town;
Games won: 37
Games drawn: 28
Games lost: 31

Ones to remember;
25 Sep 1920 Queens Park Rangers v Luton Town W 4-1 Division Three (South)
25 Dec 1922 Queens Park Rangers v Luton Town W 4-0 Division Three (South)
10 Sep 1949 Queens Park Rangers v Luton Town W 3-0 League Division Two
06 Nov 1964 Queens Park Rangers v Luton Town W 7-1 League Division Three!!!
15 Sep 1990 Queens Park Rangers v Luton Town W 6-1 League Division One

Ones to forget;
01 Nov 1924 Luton Town v Queens Park Rangers L 3-0 Division Three (South)
30 Jan 1926 Luton Town v Queens Park Rangers L 4-0 Division Three (South)
28 Mar 1931 Luton Town v Queens Park Rangers L 5-1 Division Three (South)
19 Mar 1932 Luton Town v Queens Park Rangers L 4-1 Division Three (South)
18 Dec 1948 Queens Park Rangers v Luton Town L 0-3 League Division Two
11 Apr 1981 Luton Town v Queens Park Rangers L 3-0 League Division Two

Players who have played for both;
Tony Thorpe;
1992–1998 Luton Town 120 (50)
1998 → Luton Town (loan) 8 (4)
1999 → Luton Town (loan) 4 (1)
2002–2003 Luton Town 32 (15)
2003–2005 Queens Park Rangers 41 (10)

Rowan Vine;
2004–2005 → Luton Town (loan) 45 (9)
2005–2007 Luton Town 57 (22)
2007–2008 → Queens Park Rangers (loan) 18 (4)
2008–2012 Queens Park Rangers 51 (5)

Kazenga LuaLua;
2017 → Queens Park Rangers (loan) 11 (1)
2017 → Queens Park Rangers (loan) 8 (0)
2018–2019 Luton Town 22 (2)
2019– Luton Town 4 (0)

Manager;
Mick Harford
2007 Queens Park Rangers (caretaker)
2008–2009 Luton Town
2010 Queens Park Rangers (caretaker)
2019 Luton Town (caretaker)

Preview;
Both clubs go into this game on the back of 2-1 wins on August the 31st (us away to Sheffield Wednesday, theirs was at home to Huddersfield)...that said, those games seem like a very long time ago. After those games, Luton now sit in 15th, with 2 wins and a draw from 6 games, but they have won their last two. Their top scorer is James Collins, with 3 goals. We have started promisingly, and can hopefully carry on our good form from before the international break...we even have the leagues joint top scorer, Jordan Hugill on 5 goals.

Scrolling through their squad, none of their players massively caught my eye, but their staff team seems rather extensive (https://www.lutontown.co.uk/teams/first-team/) with a couple of sports scientists and a performance analyst on their team. We have a couple of coaches and a kit manager. I'm sure we get sports scientists involved, but just interesting that Luton have obviously promoted that style in their training.

Anyway, let's hope psychology won't play a part on Saturday, and that we'll be a couple up by half time and all done and dusted by 70 minutes...you never know, it could happen.

Enjoy those who are going and...

...COME ON YOU SUPER HOOPSA!!!!
 
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Tramore Ranger said:
An article by Steve Russell from IndyR's about the 1st game on the plastic pitch against Luton, well worth a read for younger posters....

http://www.indyrs.co.uk/2011/04/they-used-to-play-on-grass-qpr-v-luton-town-1st-september-1981/
Click to expand...

I remember the match well.

It is very true that Luton seemed more comfortable on our new pitch than the R's. I also remember that our most dangerous chances were from the long goal kicks if they were allowed to bounce - as they they they then dippped at the level of opponents cross bar. They caused some panic for the Luton goalie.
 
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Graeme Jones the Hatters boss tells how they discovered Angel Rangel while he was at Swansea ...

One QPR man that Jones knows all about is Angel Rangel, who he helped pluck from Spanish football obscurity while killing time before a flight home from a Swansea scouting mission.

Rangel was plying his trade at third-tier Catalan club Terassa and the full back’s life was changed when Jones and Roberto Martinez squeezed in 45 minutes to watch the team, on the off-chance of discovering a diamond.

Jones said: “Me, Kevin Reeves and Roberto Martinez were in Spain scouting and I think we had a four hour wait before our flight. I think Terrassa played Benidorm. Pity it wasn’t in Benidorm. It was in Barcelona in the old hockey stadium that they used for the ’92 Olympics. (So we said), ‘let’s go’.

“We went to the game and, all of a sudden, we just saw this right back that was an absolute standout.

“This was 2007 so he was 24, playing in Segunda B, the third tier. He was a standout and all three off us, straight away, said, ‘we really like this guy’.”

From that game, Swansea spent €10,000 to take Rangel to South Wales, where he became a club legend over 11 years, playing more than 300 times in every level from League One to the Premier League.”

At 36 years old, Rangel is still going strong. He moved to QPR last summer and has started in five of the west Londoners’ Championship clashes this term.

Jones said: “(He’s an) outstanding professional, an outstanding guy, a really, really good guy. I think he’s married a Welsh girl and settled and his whole life changed on one decision to go and watch him play for 45 minutes.

“But, again, he’s the one who’s made the whole thing work because he’s very, very good player.”
 
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