📏 Form Guide

Queens Park Rangers

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QPR, buoyed by their previous result, will be hoping for more of the same after a 3-1 Championship triumph vs West Bromwich Albion.

In that game, Queens Park Rangers managed 47% possession and 9 attempts on goal with 4 of them on target. For Queens Park Rangers, the scorers were Jonathan Varane (45') and Rumarn Burrell (59', 87'). On the other side, West Bromwich Albion got 12 shots at goal with 5 on target. Aune Heggebø (77') was the scorer for West Bromwich Albion.

Julien Stéphan's Queens Park Rangers have hit the back of the net 7 times over their last 6 outings. The comparative number of goals that have been scored against them in those games is 11.

Pre-game facts show that Queens Park Rangers:

• are unbeaten in the league by Birmingham City in their last 2 matches.
• haven't been defeated in their previous 2 league matches at home.

Birmingham City

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Since being beaten in their last game against Southampton in Championship action, Birmingham City will be aiming to make amends here.

In that game, Birmingham City had 60% possession and 22 shots on goal with 4 of them on target. The only player to score for Birmingham City was Demarai Gray (54'). On the other side, Southampton had 19 shots on goal with 8 on target. Finn Azaz (6') and Adam Armstrong (24', 58') scored for Southampton.

In as many as 5 out of the previous 6 games involving Birmingham City, three or more goals have gone in. The average goals scored per match in that spell is 3.5, with the average number of goals for Birmingham City coming out as 2.67. Nevertheless, time will tell if such a trend will be maintained in this next match.

Coming into this contest, Birmingham City are without a win away from home in their last 4 matches in the league.

👥 Head to head

Inspecting their most recent head to head meetings stretching back to 28/09/2021 tells us that QPR have won 3 of them and Birmingham City 2, with the number of drawn results being 1.

11 goals were scored between the two sides during those clashes, with 6 from The R's and 5 created by The Blues. The average goals per game has been 1.83.

The previous league fixture featuring the two was Championship match day 39 on 29/03/2024 which finished with the scoreline of Queens Park Rangers 2-1 Birmingham City.

That time, Queens Park Rangers had 55% possession and 18 attempts on goal with 6 of them on target. The goalscorers were Steve Cook (65') and Jimmy Dunne (92').

At the other end, Birmingham City got 13 attempts at goal with 3 on target. Juninho Bacuna (62') scored.

The match was refereed by Josh Smith.

ℹ️ Team News: QPR

Kwame Poku (unknown injury), Jake Clarke-Salter (Hip injury) and Ziyad Larkeche (Cruciate ligament injury) will be missing for QPR manager Julien Stéphan.

In our view, The R's may well make use of the 4-2-3-1 system in the match with Paul Nardi, Amadou Mbengue, Jimmy Dunne, Steve Cook, R. Norrington-Davies, Jonathan Varane, Nicolas Madsen, Richard Kone, Koki Saito, Ilias Chair and Rumarn Burrell.

ℹ️ Team News: Birmingham City

Owing to an otherwise full-strength group of players, there’s only the sole fitness problem for the Birmingham City gaffer Chris Davies to be concerned about. Ethan Laird (Hamstring injury) won’t be in action.

We’re of the thinking that The Blues seem most likely to utilise a 4-2-3-1 formation, going with James Beadle, Tomoki Iwata, Phil Neumann, Christoph Klarer, Jack Robinson, Tommy Doyle, Seung-ho Paik, Patrick Roberts, Jay Stansfield, Demarai Gray and Marvin Ducksch.

💭 Prediction

We are of the inclination to think that Birmingham City and Queens Park Rangers may well end up cancelling each other out here.

There should be little in it, and a draw looks to be quite a realistic result. We therefore see a hard-fought 1-1 scoreline at the end of the match.

Andre Moura, 19:03 09/12/2025