Queens Park Rangers 3-2 Preston North End: result and report

Championship · Saturday 2 October 2021

Result

Queens Park Rangers 3-2 Preston North End

Championship · Saturday 2 October 2021, 14:00 UTC · half-time 1-1

Queens Park Rangers · Preston North End · Championship predictions

Queens Park Rangers 3-2 Preston North End: match report

Queens Park Rangers defeated Preston North End 3-2 in the Championship on Saturday 2 October 2021. It was 1-1 at half-time.

Lyndon Dykes opened the scoring in the 17th minute. Queens Park Rangers's goals came from Lyndon Dykes (17'), Jimmy Dunne (71') and Ilias Chair (74'). Preston North End scored through Emil Riis (27') and Josh Earl (46').

Discipline: Queens Park Rangers received 1 yellow card; Preston North End received no yellow cards.

Going into the game Queens Park Rangers were 8th on 15 points from 10 and Preston North End 18th on 11 points from 10. Queens Park Rangers went on to finish that season 11th with 66 points, and Preston North End 13th with 64.

Queens Park Rangers lined up in a 3-4-1-2 and Preston North End in a 3-4-1-2. The highest match rating in our data went to Lyndon Dykes of Queens Park Rangers (8.6), ahead of Ilias Chair (8.4).

Data as of 4 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 17'Goal · Lyndon DykesQueens Park Rangers · 1-0
  • 27'Goal · Emil RiisPreston North End · 1-1
  • 46'Goal · Josh EarlPreston North End · 1-2
  • 71'Goal · Jimmy DunneQueens Park Rangers · 2-2
  • 74'Goal · Ilias ChairQueens Park Rangers · 3-2
  • 90+5'Yellow card · Luke AmosQueens Park Rangers

Head-to-head

10 meetings: Queens Park Rangers 2, draws 1, Preston North End 7.

Team news

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Queens Park Rangers line-up (3-4-1-2)

Seny Dieng, Rob Dickie, Jimmy Dunne, Yoann Barbet, Moses Odubajo, Dominic Ball, Stefan Johansen, Chris Willock, Ilias Chair, Lyndon Dykes, Andre Gray

Preston North End line-up (3-4-1-2)

Daniel Iversen, Jordan Storey, Patrick Bauer, G. Cunningham, Sepp van den Berg, Ali McCann, Ryan Ledson, Josh Earl, Daniel Johnson, Emil Riis, Sean Maguire