Our prediction for this Championship match:
QPR
Match Time & Date:
29/01/2022
16:00
Prediction: 2-0
Reading
Queens Park Rangers will look to move closer to automatic promotion places when they take on Reading at Kiyan Prince Foundation Stadium. The Hoops have been impressive in the second half of the season, but they need to keep on making progress if they are to secure a top-two finish. All Kakay, Dieng and Chair are on international duty, while Sam McCallum remains in the recovery room. Lyndon Dykes is widely expected to return to the starting XI.
The Royals, on the other hand, are on a four-game losing run in the English second tier, with the team sitting just two points above the relegation zone. Reading face an uphill task in Saturday’s clash, and we do not believe that they are capable of spoiling QPR’s party at Kiyan Prince Foundation Stadium. All Meite, McIntyre, Araruna, and Dann continue to miss out with injuries for the visiting team.
Highlighted Player (Andre Gray):
Wolverhampton-born striker Andre Gray is a product of the Shrewsberry Town youth academy who hit the limelight during his two loan spell with Luton Town. A no-nonsense forward endured a difficult childhood which left him with a four-inch scar on his left cheek after he got stabbed in the face in a gang-related incident back in 2011.
Fortunately, Andre Grey was pulled out of the gang lifestyle by his mother and close friends and focused on his football career. Having scored 57 goals in 111 appearances with The Hatters, Gray was prized away by Brentford in a club-record deal at the time. Just a season later Gray moved to Burnley where he hit 23 goals in 41 Championship appearances to emerge as a vital cog in his club’s Premier League push in 2014/15. After nine goals in 32 top-flight appearances with he Clarets, Gray was transferred to Watford for yet another club-record fee.
The Englishman’s prolific goalscoring record in the Football League was brought to a halt, however, with Gray scoring just five goals in 31 Premier League appearances during the 2017/18 season.
Highlighted Team (Reading):
Reading FC is a professional football club that play in the Championship. The club was formed in 1871 and Madejski Stadium has been the home of Reading since 1998. The Royals used to play their home games at Elm Park in the past (1896 - 1998). Reading made it to the FA Cup semi-finals on two occasions (1927, 2015), but they have yet to win the prestigious trophy.
The likes of Robin Friday, Trevor Senior, Steve Death, Shaka Hislop, Phil Parkinson, Alf Messer, Jimmy Quinn, Michael Gilkes, Ronnie Blackman, Pavel Pogrebnyak and Martin Hicks are some of their more notable footballers. Aldershot Town were considered Reading’s fiercest rivals, but the Shots went out of business in 1992.
Seeing that Aldershot rejoined the league in 2008 it remains to be seen if the rivalry is going to be re-established in near future. Swindon Town and Oxford United are considered Reading’s big rivals as well.
