MATCH THREAD: ' QPR v CARDIFF CITY ' MATCH THREAD

QPR v CARDIFF CITY
Championship
Saturday 4 March, 15:00
Loftus Road

Cardiff City team today: McGregor, Connolly, Bamba, Morrison, Richards, Ralls, Gunnarsson, Hoilett, Harris, Noone, Zohore.

Cardiff City subs

Murphy, Bennett, Whittingham, John, Halford, Pilkington, M. Harris.

Qpr 1,810 tickets sold and pay on the day could top 2,000 by kick off. good support I thought we'd take 1,200 let's hope Tuesday picks up we done around 150 incl comps for Blackburn that game could make us safe for another season


ITS PAY ON THE DAY
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With Park Football all cancelled in Cardiff over 1,700 Cardiff fans are heading to QPR


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Cardiff manager Neil Warnock will choose from the same squad which fought out a 2-2 home draw with Fulham.

But Greg Halford and Anthony Pilkington are under consideration to start after building up their fitness this week.


Bruno Manga is back in training after suffering knee ligament damage at the African Nations Cup in January, but this game has come too soon for the Gabon central defender.

Lee Peltier and Rhys Healey remain absent with long-term injuries, with the latter awaiting an operation on a serious knee ligament problem.


' QPR INJURIES '

Midfielder Freeman was sent off during last weekend's 2-1 defeat at Preston and serves a one-match ban, while winger LuaLua has suffered an ankle injury.

Defender Grant Hall (shin) and forward Conor Washington (calf) were absent at Deepdale and will be assessed.

Midfielder Jordan Cousins is set to miss out again with a thigh injury.





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Latest injury news


Neil Warnock:

"We’ll be picking from the same squad as last week, I didn’t want to bring Halford and Pilkington on against Fulham, they weren’t quite right."
"We could have got away with 10 or 20 minutes but didn’t want to risk that. They’re in consideration this way though."

"Manga training very well too, he’s not ready or anything but better than we had envisaged - which was the end of the season."

"Rhys Healey is having an operation, his injury is not exactly as bad as it was originally, one ligament is intact, one ripped."

"We don’t know on a time scale, we’ll wait until the operation, they come back stronger from those sometime though with the way tehy wrap the ligament around."


1,360 away tickets sold

28/02/17

1,210 Tickets Sold so far for Cardiff Fans

27/02/17

QPR to wear special white kit to mark 1967 anniversary


Latest News


Cardiff City fans have been given 2500 tickets

Freeman will be missing for QPR having picked up a red card against Preston on the weekend.


Possible Lineups

Cardiff City

1 McGregor
16 Connolly
4 Morrison
14 Bamba
6 Richards
11 Noone
17 Gunnarsson
8 Ralls
24 K Harris
33 Hoilett
26 Zohore


QPR

1 Smithies
5 Onuoha
24 Perch
6 Lynch
29 Furlong
41 Manning
21 Luongo
3 Bidwell
15 Wszolek
28 Lua Lua
17 Smith


The Opposition



QPR

Full name: Queens Park Rangers Football Club
Nicknames: The Hoops, The Rs
Short name: QPR
Founded: 1886; 131 years ago
Ground: Loftus Road Stadium
Capacity: 18,439
Owner: Tune Group (66%), Lakshmi Mittal (33%)
Co–Chairmen: Tony Fernandes, Ruben Gnanalingam
Manager: Ian Holloway
League: Championship

Queens Park Rangers Football Club (usually referred to as QPR) are a professional English football club in White City, London that play in The Championship, the second tier of English football. Their honours include winning the League Cup in 1967, being runners-up in the old First Division in 1975–76 and reaching the final of the FA Cup in 1982, where they lost 1–0 to Tottenham Hotspur in a replay after they drew 1–1 in the initial final match.

Queens Park Rangers were founded in 1886 after the merger of Christchurch Rangers and St. Judes Institute, and their traditional colours are blue and white. In the early years after the club's formation in their original home of Queen's Park, games were played at many different grounds until finally the club settled into their current location at Loftus Road. Owing to their proximity to other west London clubs, QPR maintain long-standing rivalries with several other clubs in the area. The most notable of these are Chelsea, Fulham and Brentford, with whom they contest what are known as West London Derbies. Outside London, QPR also traditionally share rivalries with Watford, Luton and Cardiff, although in recent years these fixtures have become less prominent.


2016/17 Results

Cardiff

SAT 25 FEB 2017 - CHAMPIONSHIP Cardiff City 2 - 2 Fulham
SAT 18 FEB 2017 - CHAMPIONSHIP Cardiff City 5 - 0 Rotherham
TUE 14 FEB 2017 - CHAMPIONSHIP Derby County 3 - 4 Cardiff City
SAT 11 FEB 2017 - CHAMPIONSHIP Leeds United 0 - 2 Cardiff City


QPR

SAT 25 FEB 2017 - CHAMPIONSHIP Preston North End 2 - 1 Queens Park Rangers
TUE 21 FEB 2017 - CHAMPIONSHIP Queens Park Rangers 2 - 1 Wigan Athletic
SAT 18 FEB 2017 - CHAMPIONSHIP Birmingham City 1 - 4 Queens Park Rangers
SAT 11 FEB 2017 - CHAMPIONSHIP Queens Park Rangers 1 - 2 Huddersfield Town


Recent meetings

2016/2017 Sun 14 Aug Cardiff City 0 - 2 Queens Park Rangers League
2015/2016 Sat 16 Apr Cardiff City 0 - 0 Queens Park Rangers League
2015/2016 Sat 15 Aug Queens Park Rangers 2 - 2 Cardiff City League
2010/2011 Sat 23 Apr Cardiff City 2 - 2 Queens Park Rangers League
2010/2011 Sat 27 Nov Queens Park Rangers 2 - 1 Cardiff City League


Previous Highlights




Match Odds

QPR 13/8
Draw 12/5
Cardiff 9/5

Loftus Road



Key facts

Club: Queens Park Rangers FC
Opening: 1904
Capacity: 18,439 seats

History and description

Loftus Road was built in 1904, but it was only in 1917 that QPR moved to the ground. QPR brought one covered seating stand from their previous ground at Park Royal, and the rest of the stadium consisted of open terraces.

Unsatisfied with their ground, QPR moved in 1931 to nearby White City Stadium, but soon moved back to Loftus Road. In 1938, a new covered terrace opened, but further changes were few in the next decades.

In the early 1960s, QPR once again moved to White City Stadium, but moved back after one season.

Loftus Road got its current shape in the late 1960s and early 1970s with the construction of the South Africa Road and Ellerslie Road stands, lifting capacity to about 35,000. In 1980 and 1981, the two stands at both ends were rebuilt.

In the 1990s, the stadium was converted into an all-seater, which reduced capacity to below 20,000 seats.

Between 2002 and 2004, Fulham played their home matches at Loftus Road while Craven Cottage got renovated.

QPR is currently investigating a move to a new stadium, which they want to built at a different location in West-London. No concrete plans have been unveiled yet.


Tickets

Tickets available to current Season Ticket Holders and Gold / Junior Bluebird Members.

School End Upper Tier Gold

Adults: £33.00
Senior Citizens (60+): £23.00
Young Adult 18-21: £23.00*
Juniors Under 18: £16.00
*Proof of age required at the turnstiles

Tickets can be purchased in person at the CCS Ticket Office situated in the Grandstand, next to Corporate Entrance 2.

Alternatively, you can call the Stadium Ticket Office on 0845 345 1400. The Ticket Office is open from 9am to 5:30pm on Monday to Friday, and 9am to 3pm on non match-day Saturdays.

The easiest way is to book online - http://www.eticketing.co.uk/cardiffcity


Guess the Score / Attendance

Post your predicted score/attendance below

1-3 Zohore hatrick.

1-2 Warnock will outfox the media clown.

QPR 2 Cardiff City 3

QPR to wear special white kit to mark 1967 anniversary

QPR will wear a limited-edition white kit against Cardiff City on Saturday to mark the 50th anniversary of the club’s 1967 League Cup final triumph.

Rangers wore white at Wembley the day they famously came back from 2-0 down against West Brom to win the trophy.

Then a Third Division side, they were given little chance against their top-flight opponents but pulled off a sensational victory.



The 500 commemorative strips produced will go on sale on Saturday morning, with 50% of the profit made going towards The Forever R’s club – the former players’ association recent set up by Rangers.

“The kit is fabulous – lovely. I think the kit is very appropriate,” Lazarus said.

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Over 1,000 tickets sold so far

We have nothing to fear at QPR. We'll have a good backing and will see the City come away with a 3-1 victory. Worth a punt?

We have nothing to fear at QPR. We'll have a good backing and will see the City come away with a 3-1 victory. Worth a punt?

2-1 City. Zohore and Ralls penalty.

1,210 Tickets Sold so far for Cardiff Fans

This one looks a fair bet for a score draw.

1,210 Tickets Sold so far for Cardiff Fans

Fair play lads that's a great following, wish I could be there

1,210 Tickets Sold so far for Cardiff Fans

Purchased mine this morning

1,360 away tickets sold

1,360 away tickets sold

Any idea if it'll be pay on the day, Annis?

1,360 away tickets sold

Any idea if it'll be pay on the day, Annis?

No it does not look that way,but its pay on the day in QPR's home end.

Preston positives will help QPR bounce back against Cardiff City

06:30 02 March 2017

Neil Metcalfe

Defender James Perch is expecting QPR to respond in style when Cardiff City arrive at Loftus Road this Saturday.

A 2-1 defeat against Preston North End last Saturday ended a mini-revival for the Hoops which had stretched to two wins.

But Perch, who made a return to the starting line-up after an injury to Grant Hall, believes there were more than enough positives during the loss at Deepdale.

Speaking to http://www.qpr.co.uk he said: “It was nice to be back out there playing, albeit we didn’t get the result we all wanted.

“It’s always frustrating when you’re on the bench and not in the starting XI.

“To play the 90 minutes was good, but to lose the game was hugely frustrating because I didn’t think we deserved to lose.

“We defended well but we need to be better, because we want to keep clean sheets.

“We looked decent going forward, especially in the first half but when you get chances like we had, especially away from home, you need to take them.”

Luke Freeman’s second yellow card for an alleged stamp compounded Rangers’ misery but Perch saw things differently to the referee.

“I thought the red card was soft, very soft,” he said. “He might have caught him but there was no intent or malice.

“I think the referee made it worse than what it was to be honest with you.

“We’ll miss Luke against Cardiff, because he’s been brilliant since he came in.”

It was a point that his manager Ian Holloway was in agreement with.

He said: “I know Luke Freeman and I don’t think he put any weight on it. He’s tried to ride the tackle and not hurt anybody.

“Apparently the ref didn’t see it, the linesmen didn’t see it and the fourth official’s made an absolutely outrageous call and said it’s a second yellow.

“If it’s a stamping and it’s a deliberate stamping which he clearly says he saw, why isn’t that a direct red which we might be able to appeal?”

Saturday’s game against the Bluebirds will see former manager Neil Warnock return to west London. And Perch is looking forward to the confrontation.

“I played here under Neil during his last spell and really enjoyed it,” he said.

“You know what you’re going to get with Neil Warnock’s teams. He’s old school and I’m from the old school era.

“I’m sure he’ll get a warm reception from the Rangers fans.”

Warnock won promotion to the Premier League with the Hoops in 2011 and will return to Loftus Road with his Cardiff side on Saturday


James Perch only needed four games to be won over by Neil Warnock at QPR.

Warnock takes Cardiff City to Loftus Road on Saturday, where the Yorkshireman spent two separate spells most recently as interim manager in November 2015.

And Perch has nothing but admiration for the experienced boss and is convinced R’s fans will welcome him with open arms at the weekend.

“I’m sure Neil will get a great reception because he was brilliant for us,” he said.

“All the lads really liked him .He’s old-school and I’m from an old-school area.

“Ollie, to me, is very similar and I can see similarities in the way they work.

“I’m not surprised he’s done very well at Cardiff.

“He deserves it, he’s a good manager and has got good people round him.”

As much as he enjoyed his short time under Warnock, Perch’s attention is now on pleasing Ian Holloway.

The former Newcastle man has never been worshipped by R’s fans and his only focus is on making sure Holloway is happy with him.

“I’m there to please the gaffer. He’s the one who makes the decisions,” Perch said.

“I might get a bit of stick. People might not like how I play, or whatever.

“My only focus is the gaffer, the staff and the players.

“If I can manage to please the fans, then that’s fair enough.”

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Neil Warnock:

"We’ll be picking from the same squad as last week, I didn’t want to bring Halford and Pilkington on against Fulham, they weren’t quite right."
"We could have got away with 10 or 20 minutes but didn’t want to risk that. They’re in consideration this way though."

"Manga training very well too, he’s not ready or anything but better than we had envisaged - which was the end of the season."

"Rhys Healey is having an operation, his injury is not exactly as bad as it was originally, one ligament is intact, one ripped."

"We don’t know on a time scale, we’ll wait until the operation, they come back stronger from those sometime though with the way tehy wrap the ligament around."

Neil Warnock:

"It will be fabulous, even when I see QPR fans they say it’s the best year they had, such a special year, they just came onboard, one not to forget. I’m really looking forward to it, I’ve not been back as manager, it’ll be a good atmosphere, they’ll be glad to see me, they’ll be behind their team though, they don’t give anything away there."

Warnock On his time at QPR


Neil Warnock:

"They didn’t make much effort to keep me, but we were quite close. After the Reading game I was told, and Les Ferdinand told me Jimmy Floyd Hasslebaink was taking over next day, that was a bolt from the blue. But I wouldn’t be here if i’d stayed there probably. You don’t know what’s around the corner. Nothing surprises me in football, when you look at Leicester. No manager can plan too much, whether your young or old, you have to take each day and get best out of what you have and enjoy the moment."

"Don’t get too disappointed at lows and not too carried away with the highs."

"We’ve got a level headed group of players and who are enjoying probably surprising themselves with their levels at the moment. We need to maintain that"

Cardiff manager Neil Warnock will choose from the same squad which fought out a 2-2 home draw with Fulham.

But Greg Halford and Anthony Pilkington are under consideration to start after building up their fitness this week.


Bruno Manga is back in training after suffering knee ligament damage at the African Nations Cup in January, but this game has come too soon for the Gabon central defender.

Lee Peltier and Rhys Healey remain absent with long-term injuries, with the latter awaiting an operation on a serious knee ligament problem.

' QPR INJURIES '

Midfielder Freeman was sent off during last weekend's 2-1 defeat at Preston and serves a one-match ban, while winger LuaLua has suffered an ankle injury.

Defender Grant Hall (shin) and forward Conor Washington (calf) were absent at Deepdale and will be assessed.

Midfielder Jordan Cousins is set to miss out again with a thigh injury.

Match facts

QPR are unbeaten in their last five league meetings with Cardiff (W2 D3); their longest run against the Bluebirds since March 2002 (also five games).

Following a loss in the reverse fixture last August (0-2), another defeat for Cardiff in this fixture would see QPR do the league double over them for the first time since 2006-07.

QPR striker Matt Smith has scored twice in his first five Championship games for the Hoops - the same total as he managed in 16 appearances for Fulham earlier this season.

Neil Warnock has masterminded two consecutive away league wins as Cardiff manager - he last won three on the bounce in the Championship when manager of opponents QPR in October 2010, a season in which he won promotion to the Premier League with the Hoops.

This will be Warnock's first league match against QPR since he left them in 2012 - he is, however, unbeaten in his last five league games against them (W1 D4).

With Park Football all cancelled in Cardiff over 1,400 Cardiff fans are heading to QPR

Official Cardiff City twitter just confirmed over 1700 tickets sold

AND PAY ON THE DAY - Cash Only.

Lower Tier - Silver

Adults - £32
U18 - £17
Seniors & 18-21 - £24.

Come on let's hit 2k.

Cant wait for tomorrow altough as I live in London and live with a QPR fan I'll be sitting in the home end.

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