Cardiff City vs QPR

This Wednesday’s Championship match sees Queens Park Rangers make the trip to face Cardiff City at the Cardiff City Stadium. This is a big game as both these teams are either in or just above the relegation zone so three points would be crucial for Cardiff and QPR.

Key Stats

• Cardiff have scored 4 goals in their last 5 matches
• QPR have scored 2 goals in their last 5 matches
• QPR haven’t won a match in their last 13 attempts

Team Previews, Form and Standout Players

Neither side have had a good start to the season. Queens Park Rangers have only managed to pick up one win all season so far, so it would be no surprise to see that they are rock bottom in the Championship standings. Cardiff are one place clear of the drop zone but one slip up and they could join QPR to become one of the worst three teams in the league in this year’s edition.

Cardiff City Preview

Predicted Line-Up: Jak Alnwick; Callum O’Dowda, Jesper Daland, Dimitrios Goutas, Perry Ng; David Turnbull, Alex Robertson; Yakou Méïté, Rubin Colwill, Ollie Tanner; Callum Robinson

Cardiff have not had a good start to the season, residing on the cusp of the relegation places. After 16 games they sit in 21st place with four wins, eight losses and four draws. Those matches have left them with 16 points, just three points away from climbing to as high as 13th place if they can take three points in this match and results go in their favour. The Bluebirds have been able to rely on two players for the majority of their 15 goals. Striker Callum Robinson and attacking midfielder Rubin Colwill have achieved five and four goal contributions respectively. They should be Cardiff’s best options at helping them win this Wednesday.

QPR Preview

Predicted Line-Up: Paul Nardi; Harrison Ashby, Liam Morrison, Steve Cook, Jimmy Dunne; Sam Field, Jonathan Varane; Koki Saito, Nicolas Madsen, Paul Smyth; Zan Celar

If Cardiff’s start to the season was bad, then QPR’s has been even worse. Playing 16 games and they sit in rock bottom of the standings in 24th place with one win, seven losses and eight draws. Those results have left them with 11 points, a win would only manage to take them one place high depending on other results. The Hoops are struggling to find the back of the net, 13 goals the total tally so far with that being the lowest in the Championship. Their top goal contributors have been Michael Frey and Karamoko Dembélé who have amassed four each. Unfortunately for QPR fans they are currently out injured, missing this Wednesday’s game. It will be a massive effort for Queens Park Rangers to come away with a result when they are without their two standout players.

Head To Head Stats: Cardiff City vs QPR

There have been 48 matches where these two teams have faced each other throughout history.

QPR come into this match holding an advantage over Cardiff as they have come out victors on 27 occasions, 16 more times than Cardiff’s 11 wins in this fixture. A draw has happened 10 times out of the 48 games, leaving Queens Park Rangers with a 56.3% win percentage.

The last five faceoffs have been split equally. Both teams enter into this Wednesday’s match with two wins from the last five games as well as one draw. That indicates that it will be a tough match to call for two teams that have had many problems early on into the season.

1st January 2024 – Queens Park Rangers 1-2 Cardiff City – Championship

12th August 2023 – Cardiff City 1-2 Queens Park Rangers – Championship

26th December 2022 – Cardiff City 0-0 Queens Park Rangers – Championship

19th October 2022 – Queens Park Rangers 3-0 Cardiff City – Championship

5th March 2022 – Queens Park Rangers 1-2 Cardiff City – Championship

Betting Tips For Cardiff City vs QPR

Both teams have not been performing well as their standings in the Championship table shows however as of right now, Cardiff come into this game in the better form.

For that reason, our betting experts have gone with Cardiff To Win Both Halves as our best value tip for this game.

Odds of 5/1 mean that a £10 bet has the potential to return up to £60 in this match.

(odds subject to change)

Final Prediction: Cardiff City vs QPR

Cardiff City 2-0 QPR

QPR have two of their best goal creators out injured for this match and the foreseeable future. We can see that affecting them for this match and Cardiff capitalising on that.