Queens Park Rangers 1-2 Preston North End: result and report
Championship · Saturday 14 April 2018
Result
Queens Park Rangers 1-2 Preston North End
Championship · Saturday 14 April 2018, 14:00 UTC · half-time 1-1
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Queens Park Rangers 1-2 Preston North End: match report
Queens Park Rangers lost to Preston North End 1-2 in the Championship on Saturday 14 April 2018. The half-time score was 1-1.
Matt Smith opened the scoring in the 13th minute. Queens Park Rangers's goal came from Matt Smith (13'). Preston North End scored through Callum Robinson (45') and Alan Browne (74').
Discipline: Queens Park Rangers received 3 yellow cards; Preston North End received 1 yellow card.
Going into the game Queens Park Rangers were 15th on 53 points from 42 and Preston North End 11th on 63 points from 42. Queens Park Rangers went on to finish that season 16th with 56 points, and Preston North End 7th with 73.
Queens Park Rangers lined up in a 4-2-3-1 and Preston North End in a 4-1-4-1. The highest match rating in our data went to Darnell Fisher of Preston North End (8.5), ahead of Jake Bidwell (7.7).
Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 2 Queens Park Rangers wins, 4 draws and 4 for Preston North End.
Key events
- 13'Goal · Matt Smith
- 38'Yellow card · Matt Ingram
- 41'Yellow card · Greg Cunningham
- 45'Goal · Callum Robinson
- 70'Yellow card · Jack Robinson
- 74'Goal · Alan Browne
- 83'Yellow card · Massimo Luongo
Head-to-head
Team news
Queens Park Rangers line-up (4-2-3-1)
Matt Ingram, Darnell Furlong, Jake Bidwell, Jack Robinson, Alex Baptiste, Jordan Cousins, Ryan Manning, Massimo Luongo, Eberechi Eze, Bright Osayi-Samuel, Matt Smith
Preston North End line-up (4-1-4-1)
Declan Rudd, G. Cunningham, Tom Clarke, Darnell Fisher, Paul Huntington, Ben Pearson, Alan Browne, Daniel Johnson, Tom Barkhuizen, Billy Bodin, Callum Robinson