Saturday 14th April
Previous Meetings vs Preston North End
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Played 40;
Games won: 10
Games drawn: 16
Games lost: 14
Ones to remember;
06 Jan 1973 Queens Park Rangers v Preston North End W 3-0 League Division Two
23 Feb 1980 Preston North End v Queens Park Rangers W 0-3 League Division Two
17 Oct 2009 Queens Park Rangers v Preston North End W 4-0 League Championship
Ones to forget;
25 Dec 1950 Queens Park Rangers v Preston North End L 1-4 League Division Two
(Did they really play on Christmas Day?)
10 Feb 2001 Preston North End v Queens Park Rangers L 5-0 League Division 1
Now, in the context of previous meetings, I thought of that great 4-0 win in 2009, which I was at, and remember well. It was brilliant. I implore you to watch this video without then allowing the thread to turn into another debate about dear Adel, just enjoy it;
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Patrick Agyemang played 122 for Preston, scoring 21 and then played 75 for Rangers, scoring 15.
Gareth Ainsworth played 5 for Preston in 1992 then another 5 whilst on loan in 2002, scoring 1. He played 141 for us, scoring 36.
Max Ehmer played one games for us, and 9 games for Preston whilst on loan.
Tom Smith also played for us in our first season in the Southern League, in the 1899/1900 season, and he also played 6 games for Preston.
Match Preview;
Updated with the preview from the official with up to date team news;
QUEENS Park Rangers take on Preston North End on Saturday afternoon in what is the penultimate game of the season at Loftus Road.
The goals have been free flowing in W12 recently, with Ollie’s side scoring eight in our last two home matches. In fact our form at Loftus Road this season has been very good with only the current top seven picking up more home points than the R’s.
Tuesday night was our 11th home victory of the season, which is one more than the 2015/16 campaign and two more than last year with two games still to go.
It’s fair to say that there is, perhaps, more riding on this game for our visitors. Preston are just four places ahead of the R’s in 11th position but crucially still have a small chance of making the play-off positions.
Alex Neil’s side are five points away from the top six but realistically need to win their remaining four matches and hope that results elsewhere go their way.
Regardless as to where they end up finishing, Preston have had a great season. They lost their popular manager Simon Grayson last summer but the appointment of former Norwich City boss Alex Neil has proved to be a very successful one, and he has arguably taken them up a level since arriving last summer.
If there’s any kind of disappointment surfacing around Deepdale it will be that before their victory over Leeds United in midweek they had lost their last three games. Two of those defeats came against Sheffield Wednesday and Reading – two teams they would have expected to get points off, which would have put them in a very healthy position.
Worryingly for QPR, the key to Preston’s season has been their away form. The Lilywhites have picked up 32 points on the road, which is more than their total at home and a tally that only three teams in the league better.
The man to look out for, should he pass a late fitness test, will be their forward Sean Maguire who has netted ten times this season despite missing much of the campaign with injury.
When Preston came to Loftus Road near the start of last season they had yet to win a Championship game but a flat performance from QPR saw the visitors come out as 2-0 winners.
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