EFL Championship

QPR v Huddersfield: Back 15/2 correct score shout in Sunday's Championship clash

Huddersfield manager Darren Moore
Darren Moore is coming under increasing pressure as Huddersfield manager

Ali Maxwell from Not The Top 20 is back to preview the Sunday lunchtime's Championship relegation six-pointer between QPR and Huddersfield and fancies the home side to go back-to-back...

  • QPR sit 16th in the league table since Cifuentes was appointed

  • Just one win in last 10 Championship games for Huddersfield

  • Millwall were beaten 2-0 in the last game at Loftus Road


QPR v Huddersfield
Sunday, 13:30
Live on Sky Sports Football

This is a massive game. Huddersfield are 21st in the Championship. Three points behind them, with a better goal difference, sit Queens Park Rangers. Between the two clubs? The dreaded dotted line.

This is a hunters versus hunted scenario.

Since Marti Cifuentes was appointed on the last day of October, QPR have a 4W 4D 6L record for 16 points, the 14th best in the division in that time. Huddersfield are three points worse off in the same time frame, with a 2W 7D 5L record.

The Terriers are struggling for wins -- it's just one in their last 10 league games -- and their American owner, Kevin Nagle, is adding to the pressure with regular vlogs in which he expresses his unhappiness at results.

Before last weekend, QPR were winless in seven, with only three goals scored. Then they produced one of their best performances of the season, beating Millwall 2-0 and controlling the game for only their third home win of the season.

Cifuentes has little to work with in terms of squad depth, but he has found a starting XI and a tactical set-up that seems to work: Lyndon Dykes is playing well in a withdraw no.10 role with Sinclair Armstrong stretching defences with his incredible speed. Ilias Chair and Chris Willock provide technical quality on either flank, and Jack Colback and Sam Field screen in midfield. The defence is very well coached -- incredibly, QPR have the lowest open play xG against of any Championship team since Cifuentes' arrival.

I believe Marti Cifuentes has a strong grip on this QPR team, and that we can be confident of a repeat performance from last week against Millwall. On the other hand, I believe that the overwhelming pressure being piled onto Darren Moore and Huddersfield is a hindrance to their performance level, and will likely end in his departure from the club. In those circumstances, I can see QPR taking the lead in this game and growing in confidence as Huddersfield's fades.

Back QPR to win 2-0 @ 15/28.50

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